Funding News
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$300,000 for professional development to increase use of the Library of Congress
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Grants
The Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program works with an educational consortium of schools, universities, libraries, and foundations to help teachers use the Library's vast collection of digitized primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction. Educators in Florida, Georgia and Texas are asked to submit proposals by July 22. [ Read More ]
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Up to $7.2 million to raise literacy levels
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Grants
The purpose of the Striving Readers program is to raise the literacy levels of adolescent students in Title I-eligible schools with significant numbers of students reading below grade level and to build a strong, scientific research base for identifying and replicating strategies that improve adolescent literacy instruction. [ Read More ]
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$200 to $500 for schools or organizations
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Grants
To encourage the growth of these health-focused youth gardens, National Gardening Association recognizes outstanding programs through the Healthy Sprouts Awards, sponsored by Gardener's Supply Company. These awards support school and youth garden programs that teach about nutrition and the issue of hunger in the United States. To be eligible for the award, a school or organization must plan to garden in 2010 with at least fifteen children between the age 3 and 18. Winners are selected based on the demonstrated relationship between the garden program and nutrition and hunger issues in the United States. [ Read More ]
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Free access to SAS online curriculum resources
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Grants
SAS Curriculum Pathways, which is used by thousands of teachers in more than 30 states, is now available for free to every educator in America. SAS Curriculum Pathways provides content in the core disciplines of English, mathematics, social studies, science and Spanish. Aligned with state standards, it has more than 200 InterActivities and 855 ready-to-use lessons that enable technology-rich instruction and engage higher-order thinking skills. It is primarily for use in grades 8-12, though middle school content is in development. [ Read More ]
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$2,500 to high school sports teams
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Grants
School, amateur, community, or nonprofit affiliated teams whose members are female and enrolled in 9th through 12th grade and are U.S. residents are invited to apply to the GoGirlGo! program. The program recognizes high school teams that demonstrate leadership in their communities by inspiring girls to get involved in sport and physical activity. [ Read More ]
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Attend the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Grants
The Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy is asking for parents and students to nominate their third- through fifth-grade teachers for a chance to attend a summer camp where they will do different math and science experiments to share with their students in the classroom. [ Read More ]
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Budget
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment, and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system, Stateline.org reports. [ Read More ]
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Facing deficits, some states cut summer school
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Budget
Nearly every school system in Florida has eviscerated or eliminated summer school this year, and officials are reporting sweeping cuts in states from North Carolina and Delaware to California and Washington, reports the New York Times. [ Read More ]
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Pa., Maine faced with ed-tech budget woes
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Funding
Two states are taking very different approaches when it comes to managing spending cuts and sustaining education technology budgets. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell has proposed cutting his signature Classrooms for the Future initiative, which provides laptops and training to the state's schools. Maine, despite economic worries of its own, is expanding its one-to-one laptop initiative to all state high schools. Key words: education technology funding, Maine school technology funding, Pennsylvania technology funding, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Classrooms for the Future, education, technology [ Read More ]
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Scholarships for college dwindle as providers pull back their support
Tue, Jun 30, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Funding
Students looking for college scholarships are going to have a harder time this year as providers, hammered by falling investment returns and declining philanthropic support, cut back, the New York Times reports. [ Read More ]
