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The U.S. Department of Education is releasing millions of dollars in the Innovation Program. We are talking about 650 million dollars that the Department of Education is releasing for the States to adopt radically innovative teaching programs.
In fact, there is also money available for the so called "promising programs." These are the programs designed to raise student achievements.
"We're making an unprecedented investment in cutting-edge ideas that will produce the next generation of school reforms," Secretary Duncan said. "The i3 competition will provide seed money for fresh ideas, help grow promising programs with a good track record and scale up programs with proven results to a national level."
The 650 million dollar grants, that the Department of Education unveiled today are to be used in three categories. They are Scale-up Grants, Validation Grants and Development Grants. Each of them are desgned to be used in various programs to drive reform.
The Secretary of Education Duncan said that the Department is seeking more reforms and this money is a challenge to reward innovative programs to teach our children better and achieve higher student success. "We're looking to drive reform, reward excellence and dramatically improve our nation's schools," he said when unveiling the program.
Written by Armen Hareyan
Reference: ED.gov
Posted October 8th, 2009 by Armen Hareyan
