The U.S. Department of Education has announced the program, "Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research." The limit is one application per institution. The program is designed to support partnerships between research institutions and state or local education agencies to identify an important educational issue for improving student achievement in a high priority area. It supports the planning stage of a partnership proposal.
Award: Up to $400,000 over up to two years.
Important dates:
Mandatory notification of interest: Due by 5 p.m. April 30, 2012 to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu . Provide a title or brief description of the partnership project. Also identify the known and prospective co-principal investigators, and the known or prospective partnering organizations, along with each partner's primary investigator.
Internal preproposal submission: Due by 5 p.m. July 15, 2012 to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu . Internal guidelines are available at http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/
Department of Education letter of intent: Suggested, but not required; due July 19, 2012. Multiple letters of intent per institution are allowed.
Estimated internal review completion: July 26, 2012
Department of Education application deadline: September 20, 2012
For more information and a link to the request for applications, see
