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| Program Title | Description | Office |
|---|---|---|
| The program supports the establishment of Presidential Academies for Teachers of American History and Civics (# 84.215A) that offer workshops for both veteran and new teachers of American history and civics to strengthen their knowledge and preparation for teaching these subjects, and the establishment of Congressional Academies for Students of American History and Civics (# 84.215D) for students to develop a broader and deeper understanding of these subject matters. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
| This program supports activities to encourage and support teachers seeking advanced certification or advanced credentialing through high quality professional teacher enhancement programs designed to improve teaching and learning. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
Aid for Institutions of Higher Education Impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita |
This is the archived site for Aid for Institutions of Higher Education Impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita for Postsecondary Education. Congress appropriated $30 million in additional funding for institutions of higher education that were forced to close, relocate, or significantly curtail their activities as a result of damage caused by the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. These awards assist those institutions in recovering the costs associated with this damage. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
Alternative Strategies to Reduce Student Suspensions and Expulsions Discretionary Grants |
This archived program supports projects to enhance, implement and evaluate strategies to reduce the number and duration of suspensions and expulsions and ensure continued educational progress through challenging course work for students that are suspended or expelled. | Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) |
| Archived: The Arts in Education program authorizes noncompetitive awards to VSA arts, whose programs encourage the involvement of, and foster greater awareness of the need for, arts programs for persons with disabilities. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution Program (CCRAA) |
This site has now been archived. The purpose of the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution Program is to support institutions of education in their effort to increase their self-sufficiency by improving academic programs, institutional management, and fiscal stability. This program is authorized by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
| Archived Home page: U.S. Olympic Education Center or one of the U.S. Olympic training centers, which have their national headquarters at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| This is archived information about the discretionary grants program for schoolwide bilingual education, English as a second language (ESL) and other special alternative instructional programs to schools with concentrations of limited English proficient (LEP) students. | Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) | |
| This archived information is about grants to improve, reform, and upgrade programs and operations of an entire local education agency (LEA) in order to better serve significant concentrations of limited English proficient (LEP) students | Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) | |
| This archived program page provides information on discretionary grants for professional development of bilingual education teachers and other education personnel for the purpose of improving education services to limited English proficient (LEP) students. | Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) | |
| The archived information on this page is about discretionary grants for professional development of bilingual education teachers and other education personnel for the purpose of improving education services to limited English proficient students. | Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) | |
| Archived program information for Career Ladder Program | Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) | |
| The Charter School Program Exemplary Collaboration Awards encourage high-quality charter schools to partner with traditional public schools and school districts. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
| This program provides financial aid to enable low-income students, their teachers, and recent immigrants to come to Washington, D.C., to study the operations of the three branches of the federal government. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
| The purpose of the Cognition and Student Learning Education research program is to improve student learning by bringing recent advances in cognitive science to bear on significant problems in education. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| The purpose of the program was to create or expand community technology centers to provide disadvantaged residents of economically distressed urban and rural communities with access to information technology and the training to use it. | Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) | |
| Archived information: Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers provide training and technical assistance services to states, local educational agencies, schools, Indian tribes, community based organizations and other recepients of Federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act(ESEA). | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| Archived Information. The Comprehensive School Reform Capacity Building Grants are intended to help organizations improve the quality of their reform models and satisfy increased demand from schools that want to adopt those models. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| Archived: This program is authorized to provide formula grants to SEAs to award competitive grants to LEAs on behalf of schools. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| Archived: The purpose of the CSR Quality Initiatives program is to provide discretionary grants to support activities that will enhance the state-administered CSR program and to enable schools that have been identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring under Part A of Title I of the ESEA to meet their state's definition of adequate yearly progress (AYP). | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
Cultural Partnerships for At-Risk Children and Youths-Arts in Education |
Archived Information: This program supports school-community partnership programs designed to improve the education performance of at-risk children by providing arts education services and programs, especially programs incorporating arts education standards. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) |
Development of English Literacy in Spanish-Speaking Children Research Program |
The goal of the Development of English Literacy in Spanish-Speaking Children research program (DELSS) is to stimulate systematic, multidisciplinary research that increases the understanding of the specific cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural, and instructional factors, and the complex interactions among these factors, that govern the acquisition of English reading and writing abilities for Spanish-speaking children and youth. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) |
| Archived Information: Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers provide technical assistance and training to state and local governments and private businesses regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to facilitate compliance with the ADA and conduct disability and rehabilitation research, and research development activities. | Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) | |
| Archived: The Distance Education Demonstration Program was authorized by the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act to determine the statutory and regulatory requirements that should be altered to provide greater access to distance education programs. This file is the home page for the program site. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| Archived: The program supports the development of early childhood centers of excellence that focus on all areas of development, especially on the early language, cognitive, and pre-reading skills that prepare children for continued school success and that serve primarily children from low-income families. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| Through this program, the Institute supports research to improve student learning and achievement by identifying changes in the ways in which schools and districts are led, organized, managed, and operated that may be directly or indirectly linked to student outcomes. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| Long term outcomes of the Education Leadership program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., pre-service and in-service programs, policies, assessments) that have been demonstrated to be effective for improving and assessing the performance of education leaders (e.g., principals, superintendents) in ways that are linked to increases in student achievement. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| The Institute intends for the Education Policy, Finance, and Systems (Policy/Finance) research program to address five goals. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| Archived Information The purpose of this program is to develop culturally based educational activities, internships, apprentice programs, and exchanges to assist Alaska Natives, native Hawaiians, and children and families living in Massachusetts linked by history and tradition to Alaska and Hawaii, and members of any federally recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science Education |
Archived Information. The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science Education disseminates exemplary mathematics and science education instructional materials and provides technical assistance in the implementation of teaching methods and assessment tools for use in elementary and secondary schools. The Eisenhower Regional Consortia program supports 10 consortia each serving a multi-state region. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
Eisenhower Regional Mathematics and Science Education Consortia |
Archived Information. The Eisenhower Regional Mathematics and Science Education Consortia program consists of ten regional service providers to help improve mathematics and science education throughout the Nation. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
| This Emergency Management for Higher Education Grant program is designed to provide funding to higher education institution projects to develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate all-hazards campus-based emergency management planning efforts. A program funded under this absolute priority is required to use the framework of the four phases of emergency management (Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery). | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants Program |
Archived information. The grants support projects that demonstrate effective practices in providing, and increasing access to, English literacy programs linked to civics education. | Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) |
| Archived Information: The purpose of the Evaluating State Educational Technology program is to increase the capacity of States to design, conduct, and procure high-quality evaluations of educational technology. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| This program offers grants to support local family literacy projects that integrate early childhood education, adult literacy (adult basic and secondary-level education and instruction for English language learners), parenting education, and interactive parent and child literacy activities for low-income families with parents who are eligible for services under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act and their children from birth through age 7. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
Even Start Discretionary Grant to a Prison that Houses Women and Children |
The Even Start Family Literacy Program Women's Prison grant is designed to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy and improve the educational opportunities of low-income families with mothers in prison by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education (including, as appropriate, limited English proficient students), interactive parent-child activities, and parenting education into a unified, high-quality family literacy program. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
Even Start Family Literacy Program Grants for Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations |
Archived:The purpose of this program is to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving education opportunities of low-income families. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
| Archived Information. Competitive grants are provided to States to plan and implement Statewide family literacy initiatives to coordinate and integrate existing Federal, State, and local literacy resources including resources available under Title I, Part A; Even Start; Head Start; the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act; and Part A of Title IV of the Social Security Act. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| This program promotes economic and financial literacy among all students in kindergarten through grade 12 through the award of one grant to a national nonprofit education organization that has as its primary purpose the improvement of the quality of student understanding of personal finance and economics. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
Field Initiate Evaluations of Education Innovations Research Grant Program |
Archived: The Institute intends for the research program on Field-Initiated Evaluations to establish the efficacy of existing education interventions that are used in schools and other education delivery settings. This competition will provide federal support for evaluations of the effectiveness of education interventions that are being used in the field, that appear promising based on student performance or fill an unmet need, but that have not benefited from a rigorous evaluation of effectiveness. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) |
| Archived: The Foundations for Learning Grant Program will support projects that help children become ready for school. The program will focus on a child's emotional, social, and behavioral development that will coordinate with services through community resources for individualized support to children and their families. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Special Focus Competitions |
Archived Program Home Page: Under the FIPSE Program, the Secretary may make grants for special projects concerning areas of national need. For FY 2009 there will be two Special Focus Competitions addressing two invitational priorities: Graduate Programs at Institutions of Higher Education Serving Hispanic Americans (84.116V) and College Course Materials Rental Initiative (84.116Y) | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education--Comprehensive Program |
The archived program supports and disseminates innovative reform projects that promise to be models for improving the quality of postsecondary education and increasing student access. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
Grants for Coalitions to Prevent and Reduce Alcohol Abuse at Institutions of Higher Education |
This archived program provides financial assistance for the development, expansion, or enhancement of a statewide coalition. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
Grants to Address Youth Violence and Related Issues for Persistently Dangerous Schools |
This archvied page reflects grants support LEAs and SEAs to implement programs, activities, and strategies that address youth violence and related issues in LEAs that operate schools that have been identified as persistently dangerous for school year 2006-2007 pursuant to Section 9532 of the ESEA of 1965, as amended by the NCLB of 2001. | Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) |
| Archived: The purpose of the initiative is to provide funding to local educational agencies (LEA) in counties in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas that were designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as counties eligible for Individual Assistance due to damage caused by Hurricanes Katrina, Ike, or Gustav. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| Archived Information. High School Reform State Grants awarded by OVAE allow states to support local efforts to improve the academic performance of high school students and provide them with technical skills training. | Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) | |
High-Quality Supplemental Educational Services and After-School Partnerships Demonstration Project |
The purpose of the High-Quality Supplemental Educational Services and After-School Partnerships Demonstration competition is to encourage the establishment or expansion of partnerships between supplemental educational services (SES) programs and 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21stCCLC) projects in order to increase the academic achievement of low-income students in Title I schools identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) |
| Archived Site: The Higher Education Disaster Relief Grants program provides funds to institutions of higher education, as defined in section 101 or section 102(c)of the HEA that are located in an area affected by hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters occurring during 2008 for which the President declared a major disaster under title IV of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1974. This program Web site has been archived. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| Archived site: The purpose of the CCRAA Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program is to assist Hispanic-Serving Institutions in their effort to expand educational opportunities for, and improve the academic attainment of Hispanic students and other low-income students as authorized by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program (CCRAA) |
This site is now archived. The purpose of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program is to provide financial assistance to establish or strengthen the academic resources, management capabilities, and physical plants of historically Black colleges and universities. This program is authorized by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
| Archived: The Homeless Education Disaster Assistance program is a new, one-year program under which the U.S. Department of Education (ED) provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) whose enrollment of homeless students has increased as a result of a natural disaster that occurred in calendar year 2008 (2008). | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| Archived Information. The purpose of the program is to provide funding to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to help recruit, retain, and compensate educators who commit to work for at least three years in an area in which a major disaster area was declared as a result of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| This is the archived Hurricane Katrina Foreign Contributions site. Hurricane Katrina Foreign Contributions Awards provided funding from foreign contributions to institutions of higher education that sustained damages as a result of the hurricanes in the southeastern United States in 2005. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
Innovative Strategies in Community Colleges for Working Adults and Displaced Workers |
Archived: Program Home Page: The Innovative Strategies in Community Colleges for Working Adults and Displaced Workers Program supports innovative projects to benefit working adults and displaced workers who are pursuing degrees or credentials in community colleges. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
| Through its Research on Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers and Writers (Adolescent/Adult Readers/Writers) grants program, the Institute intends to contribute to improvement of reading and writing skills among struggling adolescent and adult readers and writers. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| Archived Information - LAAP is a grant program for asynchronous, innovative, scalable, and nationally significant distance education projects. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| The Institute intends for the Mathematics and Science Education research program to develop and evaluate mathematics and science interventions (e.g., curricula, instructional approaches) and assessments. The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., curricula, programs) that have been demonstrated to be effective for improving mathematics and science learning and achievement. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| Through the Mathematics and Science Special Education research program, the Institute intends to fund applications that address the development and evaluation of mathematics or science curricula and instructional approaches for students with identified disabilities and students at high risk for disabilities. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| Archived: Assistance is provided to promote mentoring programs for children with the greatest need. Grants are provided to programs that: 1 assist such children in receiving support and guidance from a mentor; 2 improve the academic performance of such children; 3 improve interpersonal relationships between such children and their peers, teachers, other adults, and family members; 4 reduce the dropout rate of such children; and 5 reduce juvenile delinquency and involvement in gangs by such children. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| This is an archived page. Migrant Education Even Start is a program designed to break the cycle of poverty and improve the literacy of migrant families through a unified program of family literacy services. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| This program provides grants for vocational rehabilitation (VR) services, which include vocational evaluation, counseling, mental and physical restoration, vocational training, work adjustment, job placement, and postemployment services. | Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) | |
| Archived Information. This program supports the establishment of a national center or centers to conduct applied research, development, dissemination, and training activities in the field of vocational education. | Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) | |
| Archived information on the purpose of this program was to provide grants to LEAs to recruit, hire, and train individuals to serve as drug-prevention and school safety program coordinators in schools with significant drug and school safety problems. | Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) | |
| The National Writing Project is a nationwide nonprofit education organization that promotes K-16 teacher training programs in the effective teaching of writing. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
Native American-Serving Non-Tribal Institutions Program (CCRAA) |
Archived site: The purpose of the Native American-Serving Non-Tribal Institution Program is to support institutions of education in their effort to increase their self-sufficiency by improving academic programs, institutional management, and fiscal stability. This program is authorized by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
| This archived program provides direct grants to Native Hawaiian educational organizations or educational entities with experience in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language, to enable such organizations or entities to provide a program of baccalaureate and postbaccalaureate fellowship assistance to Native Hawaiian students. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| Archived Home page: This program supports innovative projects that recruit and compensate students for work assignments in off-campus community service jobs. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| Archived Information: Directed Grants Home page. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-161), directed the Office of Postsecondary Education to award grants to 333 institutions and organizations. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| Parent Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) help implement successful and effective parental involvement policies, programs, and activities that lead to improvements in student academic achievement and that strengthen partnerships among parents, teachers, principals, administrators, and other school personnel in meeting the education needs of children. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
| Archived Information: The Pilot Program for Course Material Rental Program supports pilot projects that expand the services of college and university bookstores so as to provide the option for students to rent college course materials. The program objective is to achieve savings for students by renting course materials--including text books--instead of purchasing such materials during the course of their study on a college campus. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| Archived:The Institute's objectives in creating the Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship in the Education Sciences are to support the training of postdoctoral fellows interested in conducting applied education research. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| The Institute intends for the Postsecondary Education research program to address five goals. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in the Education Sciences |
Archived: Support the development of innovative interdisciplinary training programs for doctoral students interested in conducting applied education research, and to establish a network of training programs that collectively produce a cadre of education researchers willing and able to conduct a new generation of methodologically rigorous and educationally relevant scientific research that will provide solutions to pressing problems and challenges facing American education. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) |
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Program (PT3) |
Archived Information: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology grants address the critical need to ensure that teachers are competent and comfortable using technology in the classroom. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) |
Presidential Academies for American History and Civics Education |
Archived - This is the home page for the Presidential Academies for American History and Civics Education program, a discretionary grant program. The goal of the program is to support professional development for veteran adn new teachers of American History and Civics and to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history and civics. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) |
| The program provided discretionary grants to support the development and implementation of comprehensive, coherent, and successful bilingual or English as a second language programs and other special alternative instructional programs for limited English proficient students. | Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) | |
| This grant program is designed to provide funds to LEAs to strengthen and improve their emergency response and crisis plans, at the district and school-building level. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| This program focuses on putting proven methods of early reading instruction in classrooms. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| Through its Read/Write research program, the Institute intends to contribute to improvement of reading and writing skills. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
Reading is Fundamental-Inexpensive Book Distribution Program |
RIF enters into agreements with local nonprofit private groups or organizations and public agencies to administer free book distributions and reading motivation activities. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) |
| The purpose of this program is to carry out a national telecommunications-based program to improve teaching in core curricular areas. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
Regional Technical Support and Professional Development Consortia for Technology |
Archived Information. The program supported 10 regional centers that disseminate information and resources and provide professional development and technical assistance to SEAs, local education agencies (LEAs), and schools that serve large numbers of disadvantaged students who have limited access to technology. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
| Through the High School Reform initiative, the Institute intends to support research that will identify ways to improve high school education, measured by such objective indicators as higher test scores, higher graduation rates, and more successful transitions from high school into the world of work and postsecondary education. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| Archived Home Page: The Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program is a federally funded, state-administered program to recognize exceptionally able high school seniors who show promise of continued excellence in postsecondary education. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities: Governors' Grants |
Archived: This program provides support to governors for a variety of drug and violence prevention activities focused primarily on school-age youths. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
| The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the implementation of SLCs and activities to improve student academic achievement in large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
Special Education Research: Early Intervention and Assessment for Young Children with Disabilities |
This program will support the development and evaluation of preschool or kindergarten curricula and teacher professional development intended to address the cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional needs of young children with disabilities or at high risk for disabilities. Interventions may be new programs or modifications of existing curricula adapted to address the needs of young children with disabilities. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) |
| The purpose of this program is to support distance education projects that encourage improved instruction in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other subjects, and serve underserved populations, including disadvantaged, nonreading, and limited English proficient (LEP) populations and individuals with disabilities. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
| This program is aimed at improving the reading skills of middle school- and high school-aged students who are reading below grade level. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| This archived page is the Home page for the TRIO Dissemination Partnership Program. This program provides grants to enable TRIO grantees to work with other institutions and agencies that do not have TRIO grants to serve low-income and first-generation college students. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
Teacher Quality -- Mathematics and Science Research Grants Program |
The purpose of this program is to identify effective strategies for improving the performance of teachers in ways that lead to increases in students' mathematics and science learning. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) |
| Archived Information: Title II of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 created three Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant programs designed to increase student achievement through comprehensive approaches to improving teacher quality. The programs provide three types of competitive grants. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| The purpose of the Teacher Quality Reading and Writing Education research program is to identify effective strategies for improving the performance of teachers in ways that lead to improvements in students' reading and writing skills, and to develop practical assessments of teacher knowledge and validate these assessments against measures of students' reading and writing performance. | Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | |
| The program is designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge and understanding of and appreciation for traditional U.S. history. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
Technology Grants for Coordinating Teaching and Learning in the Migrant Community |
Archived Information. On July 1, 1997, the US Department of Education awarded migrant education technology grants to six entities that proposed using technology in innovative ways to strengthen the academic achievement of migrant students who move between school districts. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) |
| Archived Information: This program provided grants to LEAs to build capacity and improve teaching and learning with technology. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
| Archived: State and local education agencies or other eligible entities may apply for a grant to design and implement a character education program that is able to be: (a) integrated into classroom instruction and is consistent with state academic content standards and (b) carried out in conjunction with other education reform efforts. | Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) | |
| DANTES assists eligible members of the armed forces to obtain certification or licensing as elementary school teachers, secondary school teachers, or vocational or technical teachers and to become highly qualified teachers. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) | |
| This archived program provides grants to support research, exhibition, interpretation, and collection of artifacts related to the history of the Underground Railroad. | Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) | |
| This program promotes education equity for women and girls through competitive grants. | Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) |
Archived Programs by Title and Office
