In 2002, National Center for Education Research (NCER) began with three research grant competitions--one focused on reading instruction, one on preschool curricula, and one on student learning from a cognitive science perspective. These competitions resulted in a total of 24 research grants. Since that auspicious beginning, the grant competitions sponsored by the NCER have experienced tremendous growth. This booklet is a compilation of the research grants and contracts and the training grants that NCER has awarded since its first year. The projects listed represent a new generation of education research--research that is rigorous, relevant, and intended to improve the quality of education in the United States. Projects are listed in the areas of: (1) Cognition and Student Learning; (2) Early Childhood Programs and Policies; (3) Education Leadership; (4) Education Policy, Finance, and Systems; (5) Education Technology; (6) Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers; (7) Mathematics and Science Education; (8) Middle and High School Reform; (9) National Research and Development Centers; (10) Postdoctoral Research Training Program; (11) Predoctoral Research Training Program; (12) Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research; (13) Postsecondary Education; (14) Reading and Writing; (15) Social and Behavioral Context for Learning; (16) Social and Character Development; (17) Teacher Quality: Mathematics and Science Education; (18) Teacher Quality: Reading and Writing; and (19) Unsolicited and Other Awards.
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