The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting our nation's most talented young people in pursuing their full academic and personal potential. IEA focuses on creating and supporting educational practices and policies that are student-centered and that promote academic rigor, high standards, excellence in the arts and educational innovation. IEA follows the Optimal Match Philosophy, the basic tenet of which is to match a student's assessed needs with the optimal educational resources. IEA advances this philosophy as it works with each individual student, school or school district to seek the best learning strategy for all. IEA crosses traditional educational boundaries by working in public, independent, parochial and alternative schools. IEA initiatives foster intellectual curiosity, the acquisition of knowledge, confidence, creativity, responsibility and moral decisiveness.