By Eric Berman
3/9/2009

The organization behind new science-and-technology-driven high schools in five Indiana cities has gotten a $10 million grant to speed up the rollout of more.

The four-year grant to the New Technology Foundation will help it support a growing number of schools, and expand a web portal which supplies schools with access to projects assigned at other New Tech schools across the country.

New Tech works with schools to build assignments around real-world projects covering a range of classroom subjects. A project to organize a forum on world hunger might call on social studies, English and science skills.

New Tech boasts the format holds students' interest, and prepares them better for college and beyond by teaching project-management skills along with the three R's.

The education nonprofit KnowledgeWorks announced the grant at a statehouse news conference.