Sentences with phrase «example of competitive grants»

Andy knows that I've offered much more extensive discussions of the pros and cons of RTT (given that he's pushed back on several of my points in his blog and over beers), but I thought this phrase pithily captured the problems with RTT as an example of competitive grants.

Not exact matches

The new fund is the latest example of a large research program to serve national goals that is created outside the regular channel of competitive grants to individual scientists.

She suggested that the directorate follow the example of other science agencies like the National Science Foundation in giving out grants, and «that funds be awarded on a competitive basis based on scientific peer review except in cases when that is clearly not feasible.»

For example, in fiscal year 2006, ending 30 September 2006, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded 1 in 5 competitive grant applications.

If, for example, it releases funds as formula grants, which are distributed to all states on the same basis, it can ensure universal adoption of programs like Title I. Competitive grants like Race to the Top arguably make policy implementation more efficient: the executive branch can regulate, clarify, and be selective about its enforcement of the law.

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

In the Obama administration's 2009 Race to the Top competitive grant program, for example, the federal government favored states that permitted the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.