Teacher recruitment grants will recruit and train more teachers. ED will support projects to enhance the delivery, quality and accountability of postsecondary education and career-oriented lifelong learning through technology, distance education and related innovations under its new Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships Program. Faculty and staff of colleges or universities, and primary or secondary schools, as well as independent scholars are eligible to apply. Eligible activities include teaching, public programming and scholarly research. The Foundation tends to provide support for analyzing data and writing up results more frequently that data acquisition.
Eligible activities run from recruitment of prospective teachers to support for novice teachers.
International Programs ED is seeking applications to develop innovative programs using new electronic technologies to collect and distribute information on national teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages. Higher ed institutions, public or nonprofit private libraries, and consortia of institutions or libraries are eligible. The American Council for International Education invites proposals to develop and host a five-week civic education internship program for Russian and Ukrainian educators in October and November 1999. Each program will include five days of professional development workshops for K-12 school teachers, administrators and teacher trainers from Russia or Ukraine. Each host site should have strong involvement in local K-12 schools.