Project Grant U411B170045

The Forsyth County Board of Education received a $700,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education on September 22, 2022 to support early childhood literacy programs through August 1, 2025. The grant funding will support the "SPARK! IGNITING LEARNING, BIRTH AND BEYOND" initiative which aims to develop and improve literacy skills for children from birth through 12th grade. Specifically, the funds will be used to implement...

This federal Project Grant award of $432,575 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173) program. The goal of this project is to determine contextual factors that influence school capacity for daily implementation of the "Accessible Literacy Learning (ALLSTAR)" intervention, which has proven effective in supporting literacy skill acquisition...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading prototype for students with reading disabilities. The prototype will use cloud infrastructure and a user application to perform co-reading with students, validating reading accuracy and offering remediation for mistakes. It will allow teachers to customize lessons and monitor student progress using engaging book content. Data captured will...

This Project Grant award of $8,800,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education through the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program (CFDA 84.411) with a project period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The grant supports the creation, development, implementation, replication, and scaling of evidence-based educational innovations designed to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students. The primary...

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded Literacy Design Collaborative of Bowling Green, New York an $8.8 million Project Grant under the Education Innovation and Research (formerly Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund) program. The grant will support Literacy Design Collaborative's efforts to scale an evidence-based national model of instructional systems designed to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students. The Education...

The Research Triangle Institute (RTI) was awarded a $4 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education on January 1, 2023 to implement the "SPEAK TO THE POTENTIAL, ABILITY, AND RESILIENCE INSIDE EVERY KID (SPARK): A MENTORING INTERVENTION FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS" program through December 31, 2027. This award is funded through the Education Innovation and Research Program (formerly known as the Investing in Innovation Fund or...

This $11,017,875 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program (CFDA 84.411) to scale a project-based curriculum that uses multiple literacies to transform science learning in elementary schools in the Deep South. The project will be led by Michigan State University's CREATE for STEM Institute, with key sub-awards to WestEd for independent evaluation, Alabama A&M...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading system for students with reading disabilities. This SBIR Phase II project will produce a cloud-based system that students can use at home or school to improve their oral reading through personalized feedback, customizations by teachers, and audio capture capabilities. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $662,034 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to conduct research on the mechanisms underlying word reading difficulties, such as developmental dyslexia. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Development and validation of an open-source online platform...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $499,960 will fund the development and research of integrating data literacy and text analytics instruction into middle school English language arts courses from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The goal is to build students' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills by analyzing textual data using techniques like word frequency visualization that are relevant to fields like data journalism and language...