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Taking Advantage: The Rural Competitive Preference in the Investing in Innovation Program
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Strange, Marty – Rural School and Community Trust, 2011
The Investing in Innovation (i3) program is a U.S. Department of Education competitive grant program supporting innovation in public schools. To encourage projects focusing on rural education in its first round of grants in 2010 the Department offered two bonus points in the scoring system for "projects that would implement innovative practices,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Scoring, Grants, Rural Education
The Final Stretch: An Analysis of the Race to the Top Round 2 Finalists
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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the finalists for the second round of the Race to the Top (RTT) competition, with the winners to be announced in September. Round one of the competition yielded just two awards earlier this year, with Delaware and Tennessee claiming approximately $600 million of the available funds. Thirty-five…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Competition, Educational Change, Public Agencies
Knowledge for Whose Society? Knowledge Production, Higher Education, and Federal Policy in Canada
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Metcalfe, Amy Scott; Fenwick, Tara – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
With the dissemination of its Innovation Strategy in 2002, the Canadian government further solidified its commitment to a knowledge-based national competitiveness strategy. Through the unfolding of a multi-million dollar Workplace Skills Strategy (WSS) agency, and the launch of two research agencies, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Discourse Analysis, Program Descriptions