Project Grant ARC23C21395

This federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a part of the U.S. Department of Education, provides $522,427.74 to conduct a 10-year follow-up study of two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of the City University of New York's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) model. The study aims to evaluate the long-term educational and labor market outcomes of this program, which is designed to improve student achievement and completion in postsecondary...

The Association for the Advancement of International Education Inc. was awarded a $180,000 Project Grant from the Department of State Bureau of Administration under the Overseas Schools Program (CFDA 19.023) to provide education assistance from September 7, 2022 through July 31, 2023. The Overseas Schools Program, administered by the Office of Overseas Schools, aims to promote quality elementary and secondary educational opportunities for dependents of American citizens abroad as well as support...

This Project Grant award of $327,841.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the CFDA 84.305 Education Research, Development and Dissemination program is intended to support research activities that improve educational outcomes and reduce achievement gaps for California's foster youth students. The award to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a prominent non-profit research organization, will fund a comprehensive...

The University of Southern California (USC) was awarded a $573,006 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) to conduct an efficacy evaluation of the "Talking About Local Current and Contested Issues in Schools" (TALCCS) program. The project, running from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025, will evaluate the impact of the TALCCS program, which aims to improve educational outcomes by...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research (CFDA 93.866) program, provides $5,272,845 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate the long-term effects of educational experiences on cognitive health in older adults. The project leverages a natural experiment from the 1950s-60s, the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), to evaluate the causal impacts of K-12 and college educational content and quality on later-life...

This $354,662 National Science Foundation project grant supports research examining the association between state-level population policies, school safety, and educational outcomes. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the three-year award to Arizona State University will analyze data from the National Conference of State Legislatures, School Survey on Crime and Safety, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, and Common Core Data. Statistical analyses...

This federal Project Grant award of $403,103 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) supports a research project titled "School Diversity and Long-Term Student Outcomes" led by the University of Oklahoma's Office of Research Administration. The project aims to examine the long-term impacts of school diversity policies on student outcomes. Key activities include data collection, analysis,...

This Project Grant award from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) will provide $191,654.00 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to study the academic outcomes and experiences of digital and on-campus immersion students. The project, titled "The Educational Divide: Transition, Retention, and Course Selection in Digital and On-Campus Immersion Students," will run...

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 federal Project Grant award of $421,575.00 was provided by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the U.S. Department of Education under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The grant funding will be used by the University of California Irvine to harness artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to train mindsets for mathematical higher order thinking skills. The project aims to develop and evaluate innovative educational interventions...