Education research grants allow applicants to choose a scholastic subject to write reports and gather information on for a report or presentation to improve education in a local area, city or nation. For example, the Institute of Education Sciences (ies.ed.gov) offers research grants in math and sciences, cognitive learning, social and behavioral context, teacher quality, and reading and writing education.
For the reading and writing program, for instance, grantees research the variables that may contribute to ineffective teaching or learning methods. They also may develop an improved curriculum or instructional approach for teaching individual reading and writing skills. Consider a research grant if you are interested in a particular subject and are willing to devote countless hours to exploring its depth and ways to teach it.
Awards vary program-to-program. The Institute--and other research granters--may fund smaller research projects which involve several schools,or larger projects that include many students in school districts in several countries.
When looking for an education grant, consider applying for one with an endowment program. National endowments are government-funded organizations that fund artists, scientists, researchers, musicians and others with strong projects they are urgent to complete.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grants, for example, award grant money for aspiring artists who need money to complete a project. One grant the NEA offers is the
The Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth. Apply for this grant if you are seeking funding for a project that fosters art-education initiatives for children and youth.
Interested applicants submit projects which provide interactive and participation-based learning for art skills. The programs must also introduce students to skilled artists, teachers and well-known artwork that inspires and educates by example.
Think about applying for a scholarly grant which encourages travel and language immersion. As of 2010, the Fulbright Program--through the Institute of International Education--provides over 1,200 long- and short-term grants that fund students, scholars, teachers and professionals who aspire to perform advanced research in other countries, teaching abroad, taking graduate courses, or developing an artistic project that achieves an academic goal, like a translation project or interpretive dance initiative.
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, grantees act as ambassadors for American scholarship abroad while completing, or just beginning, their life's-passion overseas.