About Us

The mission of Urban Education Exchange is to eliminate the achievement gap in reading – specifically focusing on reading comprehension, the area of reading instruction most difficult for students and teachers in low-income schools and most critical for long-term academic success.

We know that in order for children to learn how to read, they need an effective teacher. Therefore, our focus is on improving the instruction of reading comprehension across the country. UEE provides an online reading comprehension curriculum for grades K-6, intensive teacher training, and student assessments within a forum for exchanging best practices. UEE’s integrated services combine over 19 years of experience in urban classrooms with the advice of reading experts to ensure teacher success.

Over 60,000 urban students are benefiting from our work.




Who We Are

UEE's growing network and unique focus on improving the caliber of comprehension instruction is changing the culture of education in our nation's urban schools.

- Nancy Scharff
Executive Director