IES-NCER: Lead of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) Network under the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice Grant Program, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.305N-2

 

For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 27, 2021.

           

Purpose of Program:  Through the National Center for Education Research (NCER), the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) provides support for programs of research in areas of demonstrated national need. The IES research grant programs are designed to provide interested individuals and the general public with reliable and valid information about education practices that support learning and improve academic achievement and access to education opportunities for all learners.  

 

Through the Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice grant program, NCER focuses resources and attention on specific education problems or issues that are a high priority for the Nation. NCER also establishes both a structure and process for researchers who are working on these issues to share ideas, build new knowledge, and strengthen their research and dissemination capacity. 

 

Under this notice, NCER is inviting only applications that address the following topic: 

·      Career and Technical Education Research Network, Network Lead role only. The CTE Network will conduct research on CTE through projects funded by other IES grant competitions. 

This notice provides information about the Career and Technical Education Research Network. Requirements for applications for the Digital Learning Platforms Network are in the notice inviting applications for new awards under the Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice and Special Education Research and Development Center programs, published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.

 

           Assistance Listing Number (ALN): 84.305N.

 

SUMMARY: On August 19, 2022, we published in the Federal Register a notice inviting applications for the Lead of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) Network under the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice Grant Program (NIA), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.305N. We are correcting this NIA to add ``the significance of the application'' to the selection criteria that peer reviewers are asked to use in evaluating applications received under this competition. We are also clarifying that the project period for the Lead is 60 months. All other information in the NIA remains the same. DATES: This correction is applicable October 12, 2022.