Department Awards Nearly $13 Million for Transition to Teaching Grants
The Transition to Teaching (TTT) Grants Program is administered by the Office of Innovation and Improvement. TTT is part of the Teacher Quality Program, which supports and tests innovations in teacher...
View ArticleKeeping the Promise of a World-Class Education Through the Power of Technology
“We are rallying the full forces of the federal government, academia, entrepreneurs, the technology sector, and researchers … to fundamentally re-imagine learning,” said Secretary of Education Arne...
View ArticleGrants Awarded Under Charter Schools Program’s Charter Management...
(September 28, 2011) The U.S. Department of Education announced today charter school grants totaling $25 million to replicate and expand high-quality charter schools that have demonstrated success....
View ArticleDepartment Awards Nearly $5 Million in Charter School Grants for Planning,...
(October 5, 2011) The U.S. Department of Education announced today charter school grants totaling $4,792,526 to charter developers for planning, program design, and initial implementation, as well as...
View Article2011 Promise Neighborhoods Grant Winners Announced
(December 19, 2011) Senior officials from the Obama Administration announced today that five organizations will receive the first round of Promise Neighborhoods implementation grants, and another 15...
View ArticlePromise Neighborhoods Grantees Emphasize Early Learning as Key to Success
The five communities receiving 2011 Promise Neighborhoods (PN) implementation grants represent well America's geographic diversity, stretching from the hills of Appalachia to the shores of the San...
View ArticleIt’s Midnight. Do You Know Where Your Basketball Is?
That’s the operative question for nearly 150 young men on San Antonio’s East Side this summer who are participating in the inaugural season of Midnight Basketball at the Davis-Scott Family YMCA. As...
View ArticleDepartment Announces More Than $14.4 Million in Grants to Charter School...
(September 27, 2012) The U.S. Department of Education announced grants totaling more than $14.4 million to support high-quality charter schools in more than 25 communities across the country. As a...
View ArticleSecretary Duncan Announces Seventeen 2012 Promise Neighborhoods Winners in...
(December 21, 2012) U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced 17 winners of the 2012 Promise Neighborhoods $60 million grant fund during a school safety speech at Neval Thomas Elementary School...
View ArticleOffice of Innovation and Improvement Begins 2013 Investing in Innovation...
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013, the Department of Education announced the start of the 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant program competition. The Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for the...
View ArticleWhen Charter Schools and Non-Chartered Schools Work Together: A Grant to...
“Charter schools were originally created to serve as labs of innovation, developing best practices, and then sharing them widely to improve the work of all students.” — Shannah...
View ArticleReady to Learn Grantee Launches Research-Based Digital Education Resources...
Children pilot the “At the Beach” Pocoyo PlaySet at Kingsbridge Community Center in the Bronx, N.Y. (Photo courtesy of HITN's Early Learning Collaborative)The Hispanic Information and...
View Articlei3 Scale-up and Validation Competitions Commence
This morning, the Department of Education announced the release of the Notices Inviting Applicants to the i3 program’s competition in the Scale-up and Validation categories. Earlier this spring, the...
View ArticleFri, 17 May 2013 14:25:12 EDT
This year (fiscal year 2013, or FY13, which runs through September 30, 2013), the Office of Innovation and Improvement will be running six grant competitions: Arts in Education Model Development and...
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Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Amanda Layton Whiteman leads a preschool class in movement as part of the Early STEM/Arts Program. (Photo by Scott Suchman, courtesy of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the...
View ArticleThu, 06 Jun 2013 09:32:19 EDT
“We’re in the middle of the work and it’s a time to look back, also see the finish line, review data we’ve gathered, and do some reflecting,” is how Acting Deputy Secretary Jim Shelton began a May 30th...
View ArticleThu, 06 Jun 2013 14:00:06 EDT
The number 3 dominated the thinking and actions of the more than 400 participants of the annual meeting of the Investing in Innovation (i3) grantees on May 20-21, in Arlington, Va. Let’s start with...
View ArticleFri, 14 Jun 2013 11:48:54 EDT
Last year, when the Department announced 20 grants awarded for the Charter Schools Program (CSP) Non-SEA program competitions, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said; "High-quality charter schools...
View ArticleWed, 19 Jun 2013 10:29:13 EDT
Ten-year-old Roberto had failing grades and discipline problems in his Cleveland, Ohio, school, but his mother had high hopes for him — a quality education that met his particular needs and would help...
View ArticleWed, 03 Jul 2013 10:57:42 EDT
Uncommon Schools, a network of 32 public charter schools in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — and current grantee of the Office of Innovation and Improvement’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) —...
View ArticleThu, 18 Jul 2013 13:19:37 EDT
(July 18, 2013) The U.S. Department of Education recently announced that it awarded three grants totaling $12 million to three different organizations that are working across the country to help...
View ArticleThu, 25 Jul 2013 13:12:23 EDT
When President Obama announced his universal pre-K initiative during the State of the Union Address this past Feb. 12th, a preschool educator was listening from a very coveted vantage point: a couple...
View ArticleFri, 02 Aug 2013 10:50:11 EDT
When charter schools and their supporters are looking for federal funds, most head straight for the Office of Innovation and Improvement’s (OII’s) Charter Schools Program (CSP). With a FY 2013 budget...
View ArticleThu, 29 Aug 2013 13:04:38 EDT
Adapting teaching methods to learning standards is not always an easy task. Teachers and school administrators working with new or updated standards, like the Common Core State Standards, are faced...
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