Project Grant T365Z220058

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has awarded a $9,782,228 Cooperative Agreement to American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, Inc. to administer the FY2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program. The CLS Program aims to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and others. Under this award, American Councils for International Education will manage various...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $1,150,000 Project Grant to Loyola Marymount University to establish a Center on English Learners and Multilingualism (CELM) under the Comprehensive Centers Program (CFDA 84.283). The center will provide training, professional development, and technical assistance to state, regional, and local educational agencies to improve educational opportunities, close achievement gaps, and enhance instructional...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $370,236 to the University of South Florida to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher-child language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to examine how often preschool teachers engage in language interactions with students, whether certain children receive fewer or briefer interactions,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $204,593 to The MGH Institute Of Health Professions, Inc. in Charlestown, MA will fund the development of a "challenge suite" - a dataset and evaluation tool - to systematically study and compare different mathematical models of how humans learn language through unsupervised pattern detection. The key products to be delivered under this grant include: A comprehensive...

This $847,242 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) supports a research project titled "Partnership to Build Teacher Capacity to Promote Early Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk for Disabilities". The primary awardee, the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., will collaborate with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to document the efficacy...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $368,295 Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program grant titled "CAREER: SUPPORTING TEACHERS TO LEVERAGE STUDENTS' LANGUAGES IN MATHEMATICS" to North Carolina State University (NC State). This project partners with a public middle school to co-design, analyze, and improve teachers' "translanguaging pedagogies" - instructional approaches that draw on students' full linguistic repertoires as resources for mathematics...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $779,514 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Clark University to study the relationship between teacher instructional practices, student language development, and academic performance in bilingual K-4 classrooms. The longitudinal project examines how different approaches to bilingual education, such as flexible language use versus language separation, impact student outcomes. Clark University...

The Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $699,298 Project Grant under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365) to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The grant, titled "BLOOM: BUILDING LANGUAGE AND OPENING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MULTILINGUALISM," aims to develop and deliver professional development programs to increase the capacity of bilingual and multilingual teachers supporting English language learners. The grant will fund evidence-based...

Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

This $239,973 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence-based tool to improve collaborative learning experiences and outcomes for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standard American Sign Language (ASL) terminology for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf...