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  • New York City Department of Education wins $1 Million Broad Prize for Urban Education
    Wed, Oct 03, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) won the 2007 Broad Prize for Urban Education. New York City has been a finalist for The Broad Prize for the past two years. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings joined philanthropist Eli Broad at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., to announce the winner. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered the keynote address at a celebratory Broad Prize luncheon following the announcement, after remarks by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The $1 million Broad Prize is an annual award that honors large urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among poor and minority students. The money goes directly to graduating high school seniors for college scholarships. [ Read More ]

  • National Governors Association Center for Best Practices awards $10,000 grants to five states
    Wed, Oct 03, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The National Governors Association Center for Best Practice (NGA Center) announced that five states -- Arkansas, Delaware, Minnesota, Nebraska and Oklahoma -- will each receive $10,000 grants to convene Governors' Summits on Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs). ELOs, including after school, summer learning, and extended day programs, provide students opportunities to learn outside the traditional school day. The summits will provide each state's governor with a springboard for advancing state ELO policy agendas, means to engage new leaders and partners in statewide efforts, and a forum for focusing attention on how ELOs can address critical state education and social challenges. [ Read More ]

  • Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest
    Thu, Jun 14, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    Essays should address one of three chosen topics. Essays will be judged on both style and content. Judges will look for writing that is clear, articulate and logically organized. Winning essays must demonstrate an outstanding grasp of the philosophic meaning of Atlas Shrugged. [ Read More ]

  • Smaller Learning Communities Program
    Mon, Jun 11, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The Smaller Learning Communities (SLCs) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies 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. SLCs include structures such as freshman academies, multi-grade academies organized around career interests or other themes, "houses" in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools-within-a-school, as well as personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs. [ Read More ]

  • C-SPAN StudentCam winners announced
    Tue, Jun 05, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    C-SPAN announced the winner of its annual video documentary competition, "StudentCam," which asks middle and high school students about political issues that are important to them. The winning video was "Jupiter or Bust: The El Sol Solution," by Zach Chastain, Bryan Cink, and Ryan Kelly of Jupiter, Fla., which explores the issue of illegal immigration and the proposed solution in their community. This marks the second consecutive year that the grand prize winning entry focuses on immigration. The award is accompanied by a cash prize of $3,000. [ Read More ]

  • HP awards more than $7 million to schools
    Tue, Jun 05, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    HP is awarding 172 K-12 public schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico more than $7 million in mobile technology, cash, and professional development as part of its 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant program. The program is designed to improve student achievement through the innovative uses of technology in the classroom while encouraging student interest in careers in technology, engineering, math and science, including environmental science. [ Read More ]

  • Montclair State receives $6.8M for math and science
    Tue, Jun 05, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    Montclair State University today announced the receipt of $6.8 million in grants to improve the teaching of math and science in New Jersey schools. The three grants, from the National Science Foundation, the Prudential Foundation, and the New Jersey Department of Education, will underwrite three initiatives: a math and science teacher recruitment/education program in Newark, a math and science teaching fellowship program involving five northern New Jersey districts, and a program providing on-site professional development for math and science teachers in 26 school districts. Together, the grants will enable Montclair State to work with 30 school districts in New Jersey, impacting 257 teachers and touching more than 10,000 students. [ Read More ]

  • Three students selected for 2007 U.S. Physics Olympiad Team
    Tue, Jun 05, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    Kynan Rilee, Sarah Marzen, and Arvind Thiagarajan have been selected as members of the 2007 United States Physics Olympiad Team. Scoring higher than more than 1,000 other high school students to earn spots on the prestigious team, they may be selected to face the challenge of meeting physics students from all over the world in a brain-to-brain competition. Rilee is a student at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Md., and Marzen and Thiagarajan, are students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Sci-Tech in Alexandria, Va. They are three of 24 students from across the United States who have been chosen to train for the mentally grueling exams and lab tests given at the International Physics Olympiad, held July 13-22 at the Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran. [ Read More ]

 

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Across the country, schools like yours are reaping the benefits of contributions from federal, corporate, and private funders. Here's a list of the latest grant winners and their funding sources.