March 2012
54 New Research and Research Training Grants Announced
The Institute of Education Sciences is investing $97.8 million in 54 new research and research training grants.
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Staff News
IES welcomes a new staff member:
Wai-Ying Chow
IES-Funded Technology Intervention Wins Immersive Learning Award
IES-funded researchers Chris Dede and Shari Metcalf of Harvard University received the First Place award in the Interactive and Immersive Learning Category at the 2011 Association for Educational Communications and Technology Conference. The award was for EcoMUVE, a science intervention funded by a development grant under IES's Education Technology research grants program.
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WWC Quick Reviews Redesigned
What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
Quick Reviews have been redesigned to quickly meet the need for reviews of education studies and interventions that receive notable media mentions.
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NCSER Grantee honored with Early Career Research Award
Paul Morgan, associate professor at Pennsylvania State University and a National Center for Special Education Research grantee, is the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Early Career Research Award from the Division for Research of the Council for Exceptional Children.
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Research Funding Webinars—Register Now
IES's National Center for Special Education Research and the National Center for Education Research are hosting a series of research funding webinars through August. » read more
NCES Begins Work on New Teaching and Learning International Survey
This spring, the
International Activities Program at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) begins field testing the Teaching and Learning International Survey here in the United States.
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