§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 engineering and science groups, museums, libraries, public broadcasters, and state agencies. Grants are for three things: improving math, science, and engineering curriculum and teacher training; running programs to help the public understand these subjects (including through public broadcasting); and researching teaching methods and education programs in math, science, engineering, and critical foreign languages. Research can study how people learn and turn that into better materials and teacher training, how to use local and informal science activities, how to recruit and keep STEM and critical language faculty, and how other countries’ materials and methods might work here. Grants must be matched with funds or in-kind resources at a minimum percentage the Foundation sets. For curriculum or methods grants, the Foundation must make sure state or local education agencies are involved when other groups apply, or that other listed groups are consulted when state or local agencies apply.