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NSF has identified improvement of graduate student preparedness for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce as one of its priorities. As part of this effort, a supplemental funding opportunity is available in fiscal year (FY) 2018 and FY 2019 to provide support for non-academic research internships for graduate students to support career opportunities ...
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DATE: May 26th, 2017
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On October 18, 2017, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the Department of Education (ED), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) jointly established the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Panel. This panel was formed in response to the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act ...
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DATE: November 17th, 2017
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The Dear Colleague Letter: NSF and William T. Grant Foundation Partnership to Increase the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research about Youth upcoming deadlines for grant proposals are May 4 and August 3, 2022. Dear Colleague: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) of the National Science ...
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DATE: March 25th, 2022
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The Dear Colleague Letter: NSF and William T. Grant Foundation Partnership to Increase the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research about Youth upcoming deadlines for grant proposals are May 4 and August 3, 2022. Dear Colleague: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) of the National Science ...
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DATE: March 25th, 2022
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The NSF Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) announces a nationwide search for temporary Program Directors in Mathematics Education Research at the National Science Foundation. Formal consideration of applications will begin March 19, 2018 and will continue until selections are made. DRL is interested in candidates with research expertise in ...
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DATE: March 12th, 2018
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With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorates for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) wish to notify the community of their intention to fund research to support the design of the next generation of digital learning environments for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ...
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DATE: October 24th, 2017
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Building on previous investments, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) and the Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR) announce their interest in continuing support of research related to the Science of Broadening Participation (SBP). The Science of Broadening Participation will employ the theories, methods, and analytic techniques of the social, behavioral, ...
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DATE: September 26th, 2017
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The National Science Foundation has released a Dear Colleague Letter: Supplemental Funding Requests for Grade 6-12 Data Science Education. The submission deadline is June 7, 2022. Read the letter here or below: Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation notifies the community of a collaboration with Schmidt Futures to ...
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DATE: April 26th, 2022
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The Geosciences and Education and Human Resources Directorates at the National Science Foundation are partnering to advance and develop understanding of learning environments that build upon the rich interdisciplinary resources emerging from polar investments. To that end, the Office of Polar Programs (OPP), the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) and the Division of Research on ...
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DATE: September 7th, 2017
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports collaborations and partnerships among education researchers and practitioners to advance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all Americans. Such collaborations address pressing needs in the Nation’s diverse preK-12 schools, including students, teachers, and families, as well as informal learning institutions where professional educators, youth, and their families ...
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DATE: March 31st, 2023
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If one of aims of science today is to respond to the real needs of society, it must find a new way to communicate with people and to be acquainted...
DATE: September 20th, 2007
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In this article, Kitty Connolly examines a case of in-house label production at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, where she serves as Botanical Education Manager. Connolly analyzes...
DATE: January 1st, 2010
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For over a decade, science educators have lamented the ways in which testing in reading and mathematics has reduced time for science instruction. Blank used 20 years of national teacher...
DATE: January 1st, 2015
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This NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)-funded Science and Ethics in Informal STEM Contexts (DRL- 2040350) project was designed to explore research ethics in science and the history of science, particularly within informal STEM institutions, through the lenses of multiple cultural traditions, and to produce a documentary, tentatively titled Decolonizing Science? to engage both scientists and informal ...
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DATE: August 17th, 2022
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As with many historical collections of artworks, there are certain works in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s collection that are culturally inappropriate in today’s context. This could include their subject matter, their mediums, or their institutional cataloguing and titles. The Artworks Renaming Initiative addresses these problematic pieces by giving new names to identified artworks with the ...
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DATE: October 6th, 2023
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Field trips to science museums can provide students with educational experiences, particularly when museum programs emphasize scientific inquiry skill building over content knowledge acquisition. We describe the creation and study...
DATE: July 22nd, 2013
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This working white paper begins the process of establishing a research agenda for how to use adult volunteers most effectively to engage K-12 students in STEM subjects. It does so...
DATE: November 21st, 2014
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An end-of-the-year CAISE blog post named the White House Maker Faire as one the defining informal Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education stories of the 2014. That event symbolically reflected the recent exponential growth of the “Maker movement” i.e.. the plethora of “Makerspaces” now in science centers, museums, libraries and other informal learning settings, ...
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DATE: November 20th, 2015
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This study expands our understanding of family learning by looking closely at mother-child interaction with mothers and their preschool aged children (3-5). Conversation between adults and children in museums has...
DATE: December 1st, 2006
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Professional development, training, workshop, technical assistance—from program to program or region to region, these can mean the same, or quite different, things. Let’s start a conversation toward consensus in the...
DATE: October 1st, 2009
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The nature of science—not only what science involves, but also how it is understood by students—is a well-established area of research. Findings have long informed policy directives and the design...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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The Afterschool Alliance, a Washington, D.C. based advocacy group for out of school learning, has released a highly anticipated report on outcomes for youth in STEM after school programs. The...
DATE: February 1st, 2013
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Despite the centrality of racialized difference to evaluation, the field has yet to develop a body of literature or guidelines for practice that advance understanding of difference and inequality, including...
DATE: December 1st, 2023
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With input from its community and benchmarking against other natural history museums across the nation, the Delaware Museum of Natural History will transform its exhibits from static, taxonomy-based dioramas to...
DATES: October 1st, 2019 - September 30th, 2020
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This paper provides an analysis of the implementation and the outcomes of Scienza Attiva, an Italian national project for secondary school students, that makes use of deliberative democracy tools to...
DATE: January 11th, 2017