<p>This award is designed to stimulate development and innovation, which will bring into harmony all those agencies which have direct involvement in the preparation of teachers. It also is intended to emphasize the Association's concern for quality in teacher preparation.
<p>The American Educational Research Association (AERA) invites proposals for conferences in education research. AERA supports research conferences intended to break new ground in substantive areas of inquiry, stimulate new lines of study on issues that have been largely unexplored, or develop innovative research methods or techniques that can contribute more generally to education research. Conferences may focus on conceptual, empirical, or methodological issues important to understanding the state of the knowledge and charting directions for future research.
<p><span>The Play Everywhere Challenge is a $1 million, national competition that will award innovative, replicable ideas that make play easy, available and fun for kids and families. We're looking for creative solutions to make play a way of life in everyday and unexpected places – sidewalks, vacant lots, bus stops, open streets and beyond. </span></p>
<p><span>Developed in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Target, Playworld, the U.S.
<p>Arizona Coyotes Foundation seeks to enhance the quality of life throughout Arizona communities by supporting non-profit organizations that promote the following primary interest areas:<br>Education: Organizations that promote quality education for all children or service men and women by enriching their lives through in-school or after-school programs designed to better equip them for the future.<br>Cultural Arts: Organizations that seek to enhance the quality of children’s or service men and women’s lives by providing programs designed to provide opportunities for hand-on
<p><span>The FY16 ARP Idea Development Award seeks applications from all areas of basic and preclinical research and strongly encourages applications that address the critical needs of the ASD community in one or more of the following areas:<br></span>• Assessment of novel therapeutics using valid preclinical models <br>• Environmental risk factors <br>• Mechanisms of heterogeneous clinical expression of ASD <br>• Mechanisms underlying conditions co-occurring with ASD (e.g., sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal issues, aggression, depression, anxiety,
<p>This competition provides funding to support the development, implementation, expansion, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based instructional approaches and professional development activities and programs in American history, civics and government, and geography in elementary and secondary schools.
<p>The U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to engage English teachers in training programs that will strengthen English teaching quality and capacity in the Dominican Republic. Priority Region: Dominican Republic | Project Objectives: Design and execute English teacher training programs to strengthen English teaching in the Dominican Republic<br>a. License at least five teachers or teacher trainers as TESOL Trainers<br>b.
<p>One of two focus areas for WT Grand Foundation. Young people from marginalized backgrounds face increasing barriers to achieve their potential in the academic, social, behavioral, and economic realms. The William T. Grant Foundation contends that the research community can play a critical role in reversing this trend. Toward this end, we support research to identify, build, and test responses to inequality in youth outcomes and opportunities.
<p>The Center will make awards of up to $40,000 for research projects in philosophy as it relates to educational policy and practice. We encourage applicants to understand educational policy and practice in broad terms, including issues that directly relate to K-12 schools and higher education institutions, but also concerning policies that influence children’s growth and development in the family and other institutions. We also encourage diverse kinds of philosophical research ranging from the highly abstract to the highly applied.
<p>The mission of the Brady Education Foundation (BEF) is to help close the opportunity and resulting achievement gap between children living in under-represented and/or under-resourced communities and other children. One way we address this issue is via funding evaluation research that has the potential to inform public and private funding decisions.</p>
<p>Although Montessori education has been popular among well-resourced families for over 100 years, its availability to children in under-resourced communities in the United States has been limited.