Project Grant 19095953823

The Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $1,381,350 project grant to The Urban Institute under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination federal grant program (CFDA 84.305) to conduct a lottery-based efficacy study of the District of Columbia Public Prekindergarten Program from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The Urban Institute will leverage random variation in pre-K enrollment generated through a deferred acceptance lottery method akin to a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) provides $349,640 to the University of Illinois to conduct innovative research on how a student's location and school resources affect their long-term cognitive, non-cognitive, and life outcomes. The research leverages unique administrative data spanning over 20 years to examine the causal impacts of school quality measures, teacher/principal effectiveness, and...

The American Institutes For Research (AIR) was awarded a $4.4 million project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Education Innovation and Research program (CFDA 84.411) to implement the READY, SET, SUCCEED (RSS): KINDERGARTEN TRANSITIONS IN FLINT project. The five-year project aims to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students through evidence-based interventions designed to support kindergarten...

This $292,717.15 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) supports research activities aimed at improving educational outcomes and expanding knowledge. The grant funds a study by Georgetown University, the prime awardee, to examine differences in financial deliberations and decision-making between school boards trained in return-on-investment (ROI)...

This is a $232,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at the University of Maryland, College Park to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying music enculturation, or how people spontaneously engage with and learn unfamiliar musical cultures. The research combines computational...

This federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), will fund a $412,000 research project to study the long-term effects of a comprehensive support program for community college students from low-income backgrounds. The project will track outcomes such as community college graduation, transfer to four-year colleges, bachelor's degree attainment, employment, wages, and contact with the criminal...

This Project Grant award of $488,662 from the Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences' Research in Special Education (CFDA 84.324) program supports research dissemination activities from January 2021 through January 2022. As the prime awardee, Child Trends, Inc. will leverage its Child Trends News Service project to strategically communicate special education research funded by IES to parents and teachers through local television news reports and broader networks. Under two...

The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) a $4,331,183 Project Grant under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program (CFDA 84.411) to support the "THINKING PRO: ACCELERATING SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA) CLASSES" project. The grant will fund the development, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $132,291 to the University of Chicago to conduct a longitudinal study examining the relationship between sound perception and sound production in second language learning. The goal is to better understand how these skills develop over time and interact, which will help inform more effective pronunciation training methods for language learners. The study will...

Young Audiences, Inc. received a $4.44M Project Grant from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Arts in Education program (CFDA 84.351) for the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The ARTISTIC (America Responds to In-School Teaching with Innovation and Creativity) initiative supports the organization's core mission of advancing arts education and professional development for teaching artists, educators, and school administrators. The...