Awards

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  • Early Reading First Program
    Tue, Jan 01, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    This program supports local efforts to enhance the oral language, cognitive, and early reading skills of preschool-aged children, especially those from low-income families, through strategies, materials, and professional development that are grounded in scientifically based reading research. [ Read More ]

  • Oracle Education Foundation honors outstanding students
    Tue, Nov 20, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    More than 50 students from seven countries, along with their coaches and parents, met in San Francisco for ThinkQuest Live 2007. This event, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation, is a weeklong celebration of the students' accomplishments, expertise and skill in winning the ThinkQuest International web site building competition. The attending youth represented the first, second, third, Global Perspectives, and TRIO Special Recognition Award teams from the 2007 competition cycle. As part of their prize, the students took part in a series of learning and recreational programs and were guests-of-honor at an awards banquet, where they were be honored by the foundation's Board of Directors and Oracle executives. [ Read More ]

  • Knight Foundation awards $500,000 to Philadelphia high schools
    Tue, Nov 20, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $500,000 in grants to the School District of Philadelphia and Prime Movers at George Washington University to create journalism clubs in 24 Philadelphia public high schools. The program, called Prime Movers/Philadelphia, is a new national model to help restore student journalism to America's schools and will mark the largest and quickest expansion of media clubs in the history of the school district. The Prime Movers/ Philadelphia journalism program, which will be part of the high schools' after school offerings, will bring professional journalists from Philadelphia newspaper, radio, and television companies, and Temple University journalism interns, into the high schools. They will assist in teaching journalism fundamentals and civic engagement and help students use those skills to tell stories of their schools and communities. [ Read More ]

  • NSF awards $200,000 to Computer Science Teachers Association
    Tue, Nov 20, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has received a $200,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). CSTA will use the NSF award to identify local educational leaders who will work with the organization to improve the quality of computer science education at the state level. In addition to identifying and working with local leaders and established statewide organizations that concentrate on improving computer science, these funds will allow CSTA to develop a toolkit to aid communication among teachers and schools, administrators, policymakers, business and industry leaders. CSTA will also help facilitate mentoring relationships between K-12 leaders and post-secondary computer science faculty. CSTA is also planning a 3-day leadership conference for summer 2008 that will convene people from more than 38 states. These leaders will address CS standards, certification, professional development, partnerships, and ways to build local chapters. [ Read More ]

  • Motorola Foundation grants $3.5M for next generation of inventors
    Tue, Nov 20, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The Motorola Foundation announced the recipients of its Innovation Generation Grants, a $3.5 million educational technology grants initiative to inspire young people to embrace science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The 2007 Innovation Generation Grants support 106 breakthrough programs that use innovative approaches to develop interest in technology-related fields while strengthening leadership and problem-solving skills. The grants target programs that encourage girls and ethnic groups currently underrepresented in technology fields. The programs supported by the Innovation Generation Grants range from after-school and summer science enrichment programs to activities that promote innovative technology use and teacher-training initiatives. [ Read More ]


  • Wed, Oct 03, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to support an initiative on student learning assessment. Rising to the Challenge: Meaningful Assessment of Student Learning will work to collectively build campus leadership and capacity to implement meaningful student learning assessment approaches and use assessment results to improve levels of student achievement. [ Read More ]


  • Wed, Oct 03, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    A new program through the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education has been granted $1.3 million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education to prepare 100 Missouri teachers to teach English to non-native students. The program -- English Language Learning in Missouri (ELL-MO) - will bring teachers to campus during the next five years, approximately 20 per year. They will take two fall courses, 2 winter courses, 2 summer courses and a field-based practicum the following fall semester in order to be certified in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). The program also teaches about the culture and background of different types of foreign speaking students. Many times, according to Fox, culture plays a role in language development as well. [ Read More ]

  • Florida Virtual School receives $314,000 AT&T grant
    Wed, Oct 03, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a nationally recognized eLearning model for developing and providing virtual K-12 education solutions to students, will use a $314,000 grant to conduct a two-year project to gather best practices and methodologies for developing and delivering high-quality online learning for K-12 students. The grant, provided by the AT&T Foundation, the corporate philanthropy organization of AT&T Inc, will help FLVS support the development of new and expanded online learning opportunities. [ Read More ]

  • Oracle donates $1 million to JA Worldwide
    Wed, Oct 03, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement) announced today that Oracle has awarded a $1 million Oracle Commitment Grant in support of the organization's innovative JA Titan, a web-based business competition for teens. The gift, which will be distributed over the next two years, will expand JA Titan beyond the U.S. and Canada to 10 additional countries around the world. JA Titan is an innovative online high school-level program that helps students act as virtual CEOs, exercising critical economic and management decisions using an interactive web-based simulation of companies competing in an imaginary global marketplace. Oracle's grant will allow JA Worldwide to translate JA Titan into 10 languages and expand to 10 new countries. Participating countries will be determined in the coming months. [ Read More ]

 

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