For competency-based micro-credentials for professional educators Grant The difference between being taught by a highly effective teacher and an ineffective one amounts to up to one full grade-level of additional progress a year. But despite an estimated $2 billion spent every year on the professional development of ...
For its immigration reporting on National Public Radio's Latino USA Grant Despite policymakers’ inability to enact meaningful reform, immigration remains a topic of particular interest for the American public. However, the media’s coverage of the issue often lacks nuance and complexity. In the spring of 2013, the Opportunity Agenda published ...
As a final grant for general support Grant Over the past six years, support from the Corporation has helped Mass Insight develop, refine, and scale its model for working with school districts to create enabling conditions to do school differently. Mass Insight has developed a unique capacity to ...
For a reporting project with the Hechinger Report on effective school designs Grant In order to increase awareness, understanding, and support of effective school designs and of school design as an important process in reforming schools, we are recommending a two-year grant to The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report is an award-winning, nonprofit ...
As a final grant for senior academic leadership training (SALT) in West Africa Grant The tertiary education sector in Ghana has undergone a significant increase in the number of universities, which creates a need for orientation and training of newly-appointed university council members. The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) in Ghana aims to ...
For continued integration of Next Generation Learning in mathematics Grant This renewal from Computers for Youth (CFY) links their longstanding approach of enabling out-of-school learning for vast numbers of students with the development of a next-generation, personalized learning model to implement in classrooms. This proposal expands the work of a ...
For continued coverage of innovation in education and school design Grant In this renewal, Education Week will concentrate its work around innovations in education that have emerged in response to the developments in the field. With Corporation support, Education Week will provide ongoing news coverage on topics such as high school ...
As a one-time grant for the U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Grant Today’s security issues demand high-quality, unbiased, and objective analysis. Think tanks meet some of this demand, but they are not structured to develop foundational, in-depth research skills, which take years in the field or the archives to develop. This ...
As a final grant for the Building Nuclear Security in East Asia project Grant This grant will provide eighteen-month funding to continue and conclude the Building Nuclear Security in East Asia project. The project is tied to the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, which is the last in a series of four summits, and the ...
For a conference on US-Russia Relations Grant At a time when dialogue between the United States and Russia is close to non-existent below the presidential and ministerial levels, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University (Belfer Center) will conduct in October 2014 a ...
For measuring the student achievement gains for students taught by Leading Educators Fellows and by teachers led by Leading Educators Fellows Grant Leading Educators is a national organization that partners with schools and districts to develop and retain teacher-leaders to significantly raise student achievement in urban schools. The Leading Educators Fellows is a rigorous two-year teacher fellowship program that develops core teacher-leader ...
For development of supports and tools for the field relating to school design and mastery-based learning Grant
For a research study on African academic presses in a digital age: practices and opportunities Grant Traditional university academic presses worldwide are undergoing transformation in the current digital environment. In a world that links knowledge with economic growth, one of the pre-requisites of building an African indigenous knowledge base is the ability to publish and disseminate ...
For a project to help science teachers with assessment during Next Generation Science Standards implementation Grant Carnegie Corporation of New York has continuously been involved in evaluating the way that science is taught, learned, and assessed in our schools, and as part of this effort the Corporation has long been a partner in the creation and ...
As a final grant for general support Grant Change the Equation (CTEq) was launched, with Corporation planning and implementation support, by leading corporate chief executive officers in fall 2010 to align their companies’ efforts, and those of the corporate sector more generally, behind a transformation of Science, Technology ...
For general operating support and expanding and sustaining effective client engagements in school leadership Grant Despite the clear importance of strong school leadership, the supply of principal candidates with the capacity to become effective leaders, or sitting principals with the resources to grow and improve, is severely limited. The New York City Leadership Academy (NYCLA ...
As a final grant for strengthening the support for and implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards across the country Grant The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were released in April 2013, and since then thirteen states have formally adopted, with many more to follow. To help build support and understanding nationally and within states, the Corporation has funded a significant ...
For a journalistic investigation into nuclear programs and trafficking Grant One of the best ways to get a senior policymaker’s attention is with a major media story on an issue of public concern—especially one that highlights waste, mismanagement, or poor strategy. The Center for Public Integrity (the Center ...
As a final grant for a multimedia series on strengthening doctoral training and research in Africa Grant A number of African governments have asserted that universities in their countries must produce more Ph.D. holders to fuel knowledge-driven development. However, viable plans for increasing doctoral production, with due attention to quality and resources, are generally absent from ...
For a project on training security sector personnel and advocating for policy change related to child soldiers in Africa Grant The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative (the Initiative) is led by the renowned former Canadian general who tried to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. Housed within the political science department at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, the Initiative is a ...
For support for the Investing in Innovation (i3) match for Making Sense of Science and Literacy: Improving Teacher Effectiveness and Building Capacity Grant There is an urgent need to improve the effectiveness of teachers, specifically with regard to STEM education and literacy across the country to help prepare students for the 21st century workforce with essential science skills such as critical thinking, inquiry ...
As a one-time grant for advising with the planning of the continental summit "Revitalizing Higher Education for Africa's Future" Grant With the aim of building local ownership and support for its fourteen-year investment in African higher education, the Corporation has recently supported national higher education policy dialogs in Africa. This has culminated in plans for a continental summit entitled, "Revitalizing ...
For research and outreach by the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism Grant In the fractious field of terrorism analysis, the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), based at the University of Chicago, represents the use of applied social science and quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis. CPOST investigates vital international ...
For the Teaching & Learning 2015 Conference Grant Founded in 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has established standards and systems for accomplished educators through a comprehensive and rigorous certification process. The National Board works to elevate the status of teaching by raising public awareness related ...
