Grants Program announces its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program . The program's goal is to build the capacity for conducting quality quantitative research in education policy by providing support and encouragement to promising scholars at the beginning of their careers. The program enables researchers to engage in a year of postdoctoral research and scholarship while working with a qualified mentor at an institution of higher education. Minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants may hold doctoral degrees in education, science, mathematics, statistics, sociology, economics, psychology, etc.
Interdisciplinary research is encouraged.
The research conducted must be quantitative in nature, using large-scale, nationally or internationally representative data sets for education policy research. Researchers must utilize at least one NSF or NCES data set in the study. Additional large-scale nationally or internationally representative data sets may be used in conjunction with the obligatory NSF or NCES data set. If international data sets are used, the study must include U.S. education. The fellowship start date is anticipated to be September 2001.