March 2020
On March 25, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) announced two competitive funding opportunities for the FY 2021 grant cycle in the .
IES will award grants for the program to support the development of a wide range of methodological and statistical tools to better enable applied education scientists to conduct rigorous education research. Awards will be available both for Statistical and Research Methodology Grants, with a maximum amount of $900,000, and for Early Career Statistical and Research Methodology Grants, with a maximum amount of $225,000.
The second opportunity, Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking, is directed to encouraging the use of State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) to examine long-term learner outcomes and pathways to provide evidence for state education policymaking. This funding opportunity was proposed by IES Director Mark Schneider as an off-cycle competition The maximum award is $1 million.
Both IES competitions will be released on May 7, with a deadline of July 30 to submit grant applications.