Institute of Education Sciences (IES): National Center for Education Research (NCER): Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grant Program, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.305T
Agency: Department of Education
Posted: 2024-05-03 | Closing date: 2024-09-12
The dates when applications are available and the deadlines for transmittal of applications invited under this notice are indicated in the chart at the end of this notice and in the Requests for Applications (RFAs) that are posted at the following website:  https://ies.ed.gov/funding.     Application Package Available: May 6, 2024.     Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: September 12, 2024.     For Further Information: Erin Higgins, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Research (NCER), e-Mail: Erin.Higgins@ed.gov
Cost sharing or matching requirement: Yes

Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 7, 2022. Purpose of Program: In awarding research grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (2) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education). The IES research grant programs are designed to provide interested individuals and the general public with reliable and valid information about education practices that support learning and improve academic achievement and access to education opportunities for all learners. These interested individuals include parents, educators, learners, researchers, and policymakers. In carrying out its grant programs, IES provides support for programs of research in areas of demonstrated national need. Competitions in This Notice: The IES National Center for Education Research (NCER) is announcing two competitions--one competition in each of the following areas: using longitudinal data to support State education policymaking and transformative research in the education sciences. Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking (ALN 84.305S). Under this competition, NCER will only consider applications that address State agencies’ use of their State’s education longitudinal data systems to identify and reduce opportunity and achievement gaps for learners from prekindergarten through adult education. Transformative Research in the Education Sciences (ALN 84.305T). Through this program, IES seeks to support innovative research that has the potential to make dramatic advances towards solving seemingly intractable problems and challenges in the education field and/or to accelerate the pace of conducting education research to facilitate major breakthroughs. For the FY 2025 competition, the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences grant program will focus on accelerating learning and reducing persistent education inequities by leveraging evidence-based principles from the learning sciences, coupled with advanced technology to create high-reward, scalable technology solutions. Multiple Submissions: You may submit applications to more than one of the FY 2025 research grant programs offered through the Department, including those offered through IES as well as those offered through other offices and programs within the Department. You may submit multiple applications to each IES grant program announced here as long as they address different key issues, programs, or policies. However, you may submit a given application only once for the IES FY 2025 grant competitions, meaning you may not submit the same application or similar applications to multiple grant programs within IES, to multiple topics within a grant competition, or multiple times within the same topic. If you submit multiple similar applications, IES will determine whether and which applications will be accepted for review and/or will be eligible for funding. In addition, if you submit the same or similar application to IES and to another funding entity within or external to the Department and receive funding for the non-IES application prior to IES scientific peer review of applications, you must withdraw the same or similar application submitted to IES, or IES may otherwise determine you are ineligible to receive an award. If reviews are happening concurrently, IES staff will consult with the other potential funder to determine the degree of overlap and which entity will provide funding if both applications are being considered for funding. Exemption from Proposed Rulemaking: Under section 191 of the Education Sciences Reform Act, 20 U.S.C. 9581, IES is not subject to section 437(d) of the General Education Provisions Act, 20 U.S.C. 1232(d), and is therefore not required to offer interested parties the opportunity to comment on matters relating to grants. Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9501 et seq. Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.305T.

Eligibility: For the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences (ALN 84.305T) grant program, eligible applicants are organizations that have the demonstrated ability and capacity to conduct rigorous research and development.   Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, institutions of higher education and non-profit, for-profit, public, or private entities.  Eligible applications must include research, product development, and education agency partners.  The research partner must be an organization that has the ability and capacity to conduct rigorous research and development.  The product development partner must be an organization that has experience developing and scaling products.  Eligible education agency partners include: o State education agencies such as departments, boards, and commissions that oversee early learning, elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and/or adult education.  The term “State education agencies” includes U.S. Territories’ education agencies and Tribal educational agencies.o Local educational agencies, which are primarily public school districts and may also include county or city agencies that have primary responsibility for prekindergarten or adult education.  Individual schools, including those that are recognized as a local educational agency, or groups of schools that do not form a school district are not eligible to apply as the education agency partner.  o Intermediate districts (sometimes called service districts) that provide services to multiple districts but do not have decision-making authority over implementing programs and policies cannot serve as the agency partner.  o Community college districts. o State and city postsecondary systems.  The postsecondary system must apply as the agency partner. Individual postsecondary institutions may not apply as the agency partner.o In places where State or local educational agencies do not oversee adult education, the adult education providers, defined as “eligible providers” (e.g., community-based organizations, institutions of higher education, public or non-profit agencies, libraries) under Title II of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-113publ128/pdf/PLAW-113publ128.pdf), can serve as the agency partner.Applications that include non-public organizations that oversee or administer schools (e.g., certain charter or education management organizations) must also include, as an agency partner, the State or local educational agency with oversight of the schools these non-public organizations manage.