Investing in Innovation (i3) has just announced their Call for Peer Reviewers

KCP Technologies has an opening for a Research and Project manager to work on an NSF-funded research and development project with a team of designers, software engineers, curriculum writers and educators developing mathematics education software and curricula for use in high school classrooms. In addition to project management, there are opportunities for UI design, graphic design, game design, hands-on research in classrooms, writing curriculum materials, and user testing of software.

The preliminary program for the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Fall 2011 Conference "Building an Education Science: Improving Mathematics and Science Education for All Students" is online: https://www.sree.org/conferences/2011f/program/

The plenary and general break-out sessions of the conference run Thursday-Friday, September 8 & 9.

Over the weekend, Saturday-Sunday, September 10 & 11, 2 two-day short courses will be offered:

The next DR K-12 PI Meeting will be held in 2012. More information on this will be available in the coming weeks.

i3 Investing in Innovation Fund

While the program is smaller than last year’s, there is a STEM priority.

The Condition of Education 2011 and The Condition of Education 2011 in Brief

Today, Thursday, May 26th, Commissioner Jack Buckley, National Center for Education Statistics, released The Condition of Education 2011 along with The Condition in Brief. The 50 indicators presented in The Condition of Education 2011 provide a progress report on education in America and include findings on the demographics of American schools, U.S. resources for schooling, and outcomes associated with education.

Report findings include:

MSPnet's 2010 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation

http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/22603

Authors:Joy Frechtling, Melvin M. Mark, Debra J. Rog, Veronica Thomas, Henry Frierson, Stafford Hood, Gerunda Hughes, Elmima Johnson

Published in:Westat
Published:December 2010