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Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2015
The Social Spending Innovation Research (SSIR) proposal seeks to replicate, in social spending, the great success of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in technology development. The SBIR program funds technology development by entrepreneurial small companies. The program has spawned breakthrough technologies in diverse areas…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Financial Support, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Sawchuk, Stephen; Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2010
As peer reviewers for the U.S. Department of Education begin to comb through the thousands of pages of applications for $4 billion in federal Race to the Top Fund grants, they'll be under pressure to determine which are most worthy of funding: those that promise the most, or those with the best chance of delivering. In a competition whose criteria…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Competition, Educational Change