Educational Grants
School districts across the country are experiencing shrinking budgets. One way to increase the funds available for education is to apply for educational grants. They can take many forms, including those requiring rigorous research designs as well as others that might provide funds for equipment or the money to implement promising but unproven programs.
Two organizations that provide educational grant money are the Beaumont Foundation of America and the Institute of Education Sciences.
The Institute of Educational Services (IES) requires an extensive application and applies rigorous scientific research principles when considering which applications to fund. Their specific focus is to increase the body of knowledge regarding best practices in education. Their goal is to fund research being done in the "practice community" -- that is, schools and school districts (IES, 2005). They have a preference for rigorously controlled studies that involve students from multiple schools who are randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the control group. To support this rigorous approach, they provide substantial funding for up to three years. They will consider a quasi=experimental design under certain circumstances. In addition, they require that the team conducting the research demonstrate the competency to conduct the study, including statistical competency. They require a literature search and other justification for the approach to be used in the study.
The Beaumont Foundation takes a markedly different approach to grants. They specifically provide technology to schools...
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