Sentences with phrase «grant competition encourages»

Its «Race to the Top» grant competition encourages states to revamp their laws to incorporate some of these ideas.

In particular, the federal Race to the Top (RTT) grant competition encouraged states to adopt new teacher evaluation policies.

Not exact matches

The incentives created by the way grant dollars flow to and through faculty members» labs encourage them, as rational actors, to follow the course that maximizes their advantage in the fierce competition for professional survival.

But today's competition for limited grant money encourages overly safe research, aimed more at producing positive results to bolster future proposals than at breaking new ground.

Because the competition for the K99 / R00 awards is so stiff, Anthony Carter, a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at NIGMS in Bethesda, Maryland, has been encouraging some prospective applicants who are eligible for other training grants, such as K08s, to go after those awards instead.

Sponsored by the NAESP and the MetLife Foundation, this grant is part of a competition that supports elementary and middle - level principals as they foster and encourage strong school - community relationships.

Parents armed with $ 500 grants would go directly into the education marketplace, encouraging the same dynamics of choice and competition that have made American universities the envy of the world.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

It would put the parents of approximately 30 million children directly into the education marketplace, each of them armed with a $ 500 grant, thereby encouraging choice and competition.

In 2009, the Obama administration encouraged states to adopt the Common Core by making «college and career - readiness standards» one of several criteria in its $ 4 billion «Race to the Top» grant competition.

The Obama administration has encouraged the transition through several federal grant programs including the Race to the Top competition.

(District of Columbia) Much of the nation is engaged in some new form of teacher evaluation, encouraged by billions of dollars in grant money from the Race to the Top competition or by the promise of a waiver from key mandates imposed under the No Child left Behind Act.

The funding from Title II, Part B from the U.S. Department of Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science teaching.

The department strongly encourages applicants to submit their intent to apply for the competitions by May 23, and applications for both the Scale - Up and Validation grants are due July 2.

Duncan encourages these models with financial incentives such as School Improvement grants and Race to the Top, a federal competition encouraging education reform that Colorado lost.

To encourage artists showing in the 2014 competition to think bigger and bolder, ArtPrize is offering new Artist Seed Grants to offset the cost of especially ambitious and challenging entries.