The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $750,000 Cooperative Agreement to the New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education, Inc. through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to extend the operation of the CSforALL Alliance. This alliance aims to ensure equitable access to K-12 computer science education, particularly for students from historically marginalized communities. The key products and services to be delivered under this...
This Project Grant award for $360,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a research-practice partnership between New Mexico State University, the New Mexico Public Education Department, and other organizations. The goal is to understand how to prepare high school teachers in rural New Mexico to teach culturally responsive, rigorous computer science (CS) curricula that meet the needs of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award, funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $231,554 to a consortium led by Western Washington University, in partnership with the University of Washington, Central Washington University, Whitworth University, and Washington State University. The project aims to create an equitable, justice-focused ecosystem for secondary computer science (CS) teaching in the Pacific Northwest. Key activities...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $293,517 Project Grant to the Dominguez Hills Foundation California State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the BPC Alliance: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Early Computing project, which aims to promote Latinx student retention in computing fields via community engagement. Specifically, the project will transform introductory computing curriculum at six...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $762,867 project grant to Learning Partnership LLC from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will support the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CAFECS: DEVELOPING EQUITABLE COMPUTER SCIENCE PATHWAYS FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO COLLEGE project. This project aims to develop equitable computer science pathways from high school to college by researching strategies to engage underrepresented high...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the Tides Center, a nonprofit organization, to develop and pilot culturally-responsive computer science (CS) education for American Indian/Alaska Native (Indigenous) middle school students.
The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: (1) culturally adapt existing CS content into a one-semester foundational course for 60 students at the Native American Community...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,388,786 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the Computer Science Teachers Association, LLC (CSTA) in collaboration with CSEDResearch.org and the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The grant will fund the development of a "Computer Science Teacher Professional Development Passport Alliance" over 3 years from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026.
The alliance aims to...
The Santa Clara County Office of Education was awarded a $924,479 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. The grant will support the "Culturally-Responsive Teaching for Supporting Positive Computer Science Identities among Latinx Girls" project from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024.
Under this award, the Santa Clara County Office of Education will implement culturally responsive teaching methods to...
The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) awarded a $299,912 Project Grant to Chico State Enterprises, a Minority Institution and Hispanic Serving Institution, to fund the "Embedding Representation, Relevance, and Equity in a Personalized System of Instruction" project. This 2-year collaboration between California State University, Chico and the University of California, Santa Barbara will develop instructional videos featuring...
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas was awarded a $499,899 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to support the "ACCESSCSFORALL: MAKING HIGH SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE ACCESSIBLE" program. The grant was awarded on October 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2024.
Under this award, the University will deliver a collaborative research program aimed at making high school computer science more accessible through the...