Transformative Research in the Education Sciences and Using Longitudinal Data To Support State Education Policymaking Grant Programs

The Institute of Science (IES) National Center for Education Research (NCER) is inviting applications, due August 15, 2024, for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for the Education Research Grant Programs. 

Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking (ALN 84.305S). Under this competition, NCER will only consider applications that address State agencies' use of their State's education longitudinal data systems to identify and reduce opportunity and achievement gaps for learners from prekindergarten through adult education.

Transformative Research in the Education Sciences (ALN 84.305T). Through this program, IES seeks to support innovative research that has the potential to make dramatic advances towards solving seemingly intractable problems and challenges in the education field and/or to accelerate the pace of conducting education research to facilitate major breakthroughs. For the FY 2025 competition, the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences grant program will focus on accelerating learning and reducing persistent education inequities by leveraging evidence-based principles from the learning sciences, coupled with advanced technology to create high-reward, scalable technology solutions.

Education Research and Special Education Research Grant Programs

NCER is also inviting applications, due September 12, 2024, for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for the Education Research and Special Education Research Grant Programs. IES intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education).