Teaching American History grants support projects to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of traditional American history. Grant awards assist LEAs, in partnership with entities that have extensive content expertise, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative, cohesive models of professional development. By helping teachers to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of traditional American history as a separate subject within the core curriculum, these programs improve instruction and raise student achievement. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.215X. Applications for grants under the Teaching American History Program--CFDA Number 84.215X must be submitted electronically using the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site at http://www.Grants.gov.
This competition includesone absolute priority and two competitive preference priorities that are explained in the following paragraphs.
Absolute Priority:
Partnerships with Other Agencies or Institutions. Each applicant LEA must propose to work in collaboration with one or more of the following:
• An institution of higher education.
• A non-profit history or humanities
organization.
• A library or museum.
Competitive preference priorities
1—School Districts with Schools in Need of Improvement, Corrective Action, or Restructuring Projects that help school districts implement academic and structural interventions in schools that have been identified for improvement, corrective action, or
restructuring under the Elementary and Secondary Education
2—Student Achievement Data Projects that collect pre- and post-intervention test data to assess the effects of the projects on the academic achievement of student participants relative to
appropriate comparison or control groups.
Note: In response to this priority, applicants are encouraged to submit a plan describing how they propose to collect test data on students of teachers trained in the Teaching American History program and compare those data to test data from students of teachers who are not trained in the Teaching American History program.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: February 7, 2007
The e-mail need not include information regarding the content of the proposed application, only the applicant's intent to submit it. This e-mail notification should be sent to Alex Stein at: TeachingAmericanHistory@ed.gov. Applicants who do not provide this e-mail notification may still apply for funding.
Current Closing Date for Applications: Mar 09, 2007
