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  • $100,000 to institutions that help first-generation students of color achieve academic success
    Thu, Oct 29, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The purpose of the Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative is to increase first-generation student success and degree completion through faculty-driven, academic-focused practices focused on student learning. IHEP and the Walmart Foundation are seeking MSIs with innovative approaches to academic interventions, targeted to first-generation students and directed by institutional faculty and academic affairs staff. [ Read More ]

  • Win $1,000 or DreamBox subscriptions for their classroom
    Thu, Oct 29, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The "Dream Big" contest calls on kids to imagine their career dreams and submit a video on what they want to be when they grow up. The videos will be posted on DreamBox.com as well as YouTube, with public voting on the best submissions. In addition to public opinion, DreamBox Learning has appointed a panel of judges to review the most popular submissions and determine prize winners, to be announced on December 15, 2009. Family and classroom contestants are strongly encouraged to have fun and focus on the contest theme rather than video production quality as winners will be judged on content and creativity. While everyone who enters will be rewarded with a free one-month trial of DreamBox Learning K-2 Math, one entry will be chosen to win a grand prize of $1,000. Additionally, five individual entries will be awarded six-month subscriptions to DreamBox Learning K-2 Math valued at $59.99; and three classrooms will win a DreamBox Math Classroom license for the 2009/10 school year, good for up to 24 students, and valued at $1,200. [ Read More ]

  • Students can have their short stories published
    Thu, Oct 29, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    Reading Rockets and AdLit.org recently launched a new monthly challenge that gives students a chance to flex their writing muscles with writing prompts. The prompts are inspired by the 18 authors and illustrators participating in the Exquisite Corpse Adventure, a new serial story that's unfolding on the Library of Congress website. The Exquisite Prompt contest is a series of monthly writing challenges designed as a classroom activity for kids in grades K-12. Teachers can engage their students by selecting just one of the monthly challenges or try a new challenge every month. The prompts are based on the works or the lives of the 18 participating authors and illustrators and the project can be used in conjunction with, or independent of, the Exquisite Corpse Adventure. [ Read More ]

  • Fellowships for new high school math and science teachers
    Thu, Oct 29, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation is now accepting applications for a comprehensive teaching fellowship available to individuals committed to becoming professional high school science or mathematics teachers. KSTF Teaching Fellowships provide up to five years of financial and professional support to exceptional individuals as they begin their careers teaching in U.S. high schools. [ Read More ]

  • Up to $10,000 for top teachers
    Thu, Oct 29, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    The Fund for Teachers invites educators from across the country to submit proposals for their own do-it-yourself learning odysseys next summer. Destinations and disciplines are limitless as previous itineraries over the past nine years include tours, conferences and independent studies on every continent. Multiple grants - of $5,000 for individuals and team grants of up to $10,000 -- will be awarded. [ Read More ]

  • Students can win a video or digital camera
    Thu, Oct 29, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
    Pitsco Network is asking for students who participate in their education curriculum to submit their group projects to the Pitsco Education Project contest. Any student creation designed and built as a required project in a Pitsco lab is eligible. Non-video entries should provide brief written summary with photos. The students who created the project must do the writing and be pictured in the photos. A summary of no more than one page of information (unless project documents are included) and up to five photos may be included. Video entries should be no longer than three minutes in length. A $100 Pitsco Education gift certificate will be awarded to the teacher of the students who create the winning entry in each category. Top prize in the non-video category is a digital camera for the classroom, and top prize in the video category is a video camera for the classroom. [ Read More ]

  • Schools make their case for broadband grants
    Thu, Oct 22, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Fed , Grants , Federal Policy
    Colleges and universities have applied for tens of millions of dollars in federal stimulus grants designed to expand broadband internet access, arguing that university IT infrastructure makes campuses worthy recipients. Key words: FCC rules, broadband provider, education technology, school technology, economic stimulus [ Read More ]

 

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