What do youth app developers, a mathematically-inclined feline, and trout fishermen using an online tool to identify aquatic insects have in common? They’re all examples of informal STEM learning in action that Rockman et al is fortunate to have in its evaluation portfolio. They’ve also been funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal […]
Category: Funding Opportunities
New Funding Opportunities for Innovation and Research in Education
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has launched its 2020 competition for the Early-phase grants through the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program. Both the former Investing in Innovation (i3) grant program and the current EIR program have focused on projects involving evidence-based innovations for high-needs Pre-K–12 students. They have always required those projects to […]
National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Funding Opportunity
When I tell people about the K-12 science programs I evaluate, they invariably say “I wish they had something like that when I was in school!” I agree. At Rockman et al, my colleagues and I have studied projects that use interactive multimedia to teach evolution, that give students opportunities to analyze real scientific data, […]
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25) program has announced its FY 2019 competition. This year, the NIH SEPA intents to commit approximately $2 million in funding to support educational activities that help in the training, and recruitment of a diverse workforce of the biomedical, behavioral and/or clinical science fields […]
Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) Grant
The U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) program has announced its FY 2019 competition. This year, the Department of Education has approximately $38 million available to support eligible partnerships that support high-quality teacher preparation and professional development for prospective teachers (with preference points for projects that prepare computer science teachers and another for […]