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The article discusses U.S. schools' use of financial incentives to improve students' academic achievements. Topics include The College Readiness Program from the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) and its efforts to encourage student enrollment in advanced placement (AP) programs, the use of college scholarships to motivate students to complete college, and the Promise scholarship in Oklahoma. A survey conducted by the magazine regarding student engagement is presented.

The article focuses on fellowship positions in the U.S. It mentions a program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in which the researcher Kirsten Kainz is involved and discusses the benefits of fellowship grants. The National Academy of Education (NAE) is examined as a highly-regarded organization of scholars and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is also discussed.

The editors introduce articles within the issue, with topics that include productive failure methods at Da Vinci Science High School in Los Angeles, California, the promise of college scholarships to students in the U.S., and the community service curriculum at San Ysidro High School in San Diego, California.

The article reports that a proposal to prohibit college coaches from making athletic scholarship offers to students before their junior year of high school has been rejected by the legislative council of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The article discusses a Michigan program which offers stipends to teachers of mathematics and science to pay for their master's degree training if they commit to working in high-needs schools. Michigan universities that participate in the program are expected to contribute monetarily and redesign their programs to establish a collaborative relationship between their schools of arts and sciences, from which mathematics and science majors graduate, and their schools of education.

Reports on the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) filing of a lawsuit challenging Michigan's college-scholarship program on the grounds that using a state test alone to make the awards discriminates against poor and minority students. Allegation that the program violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the United States Constitution; Criteria to be used by the state to determine scholarships recipients.

The article reports on the effort of the College Football Association (CFA) to raise academic quality of college athletes in the U.S. CFA has designed proposals to tighten eligibility requirements for awarding college athletic scholarships to highschool students. The requirements include, a highschool graduate student with an overall grade average of 2.0, a four years of English including one year of composition, and two years of mathematics, including one year of algebra.