§3914 Materials development and methods research for mathematics, science, and engineering

Summary

The Foundation can give competitive grants to colleges, businesses, nonprofits, school districts, professional science and engineering groups, museums, libraries, public broadcasters, and state agencies. Grants must be used to improve math, science, and engineering teaching and faculty, to create public programs that explain these subjects (including through public broadcasting), and to study teaching methods and education programs in these subjects and in important foreign languages. Research funded can look at classroom learning and better teacher training, local or informal science activities, how to recruit and keep good teachers and faculty, and how other countries teach these subjects. Grants must be matched by other money or in-kind help at a minimum percentage set by the Foundation. When outside groups apply, state or local education agencies must be involved, and when agencies apply, they must consult with those other groups.