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Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research Grants

The Office of Educational Research and Improvement is funding a new grants program designed to promote rigorous evaluations of preschool curricula. These evaluations will provide information to support informed choices of classroom curricula for early childhood programs. Recipients of these grants will coordinate with a national evaluation contractor (to be funded separately by OERI) to carry out evaluations of selected preschool curricula. Grantees will also have the opportunity to design and carry out complementary research studies intended to supplement, complement and enrich the core evaluation.

Seven grants were recently awarded for this program [http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/07-2002/07252002.html]. Those interested in viewing the announcement for the competition can find it at:
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2001-4/121701b.html

A pre-application meeting for this program was held on January 24, 2002, in Washington D.C. Participants received technical assistance and information about the funding priority. A meeting summary, hand-outs (including the agenda), and a list of key questions and answers can be downloaded using the following links.

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