NCSER Publishes Research Grant Application Materials
The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) released guidelines and a call for applications for Research to Accelerate Pandemic Recovery in Special Education, supported by a new round of research funding for the Institute of Education Science (IES) through the American Rescue Plan Act.
In May, CEC joined a small group of national special education stakeholders to meet with IES and NCSER to discuss the need for research that focuses on the pandemic’s impact on infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.
NCSER seeks to support research that examines the pandemic-related challenges districts and schools experienced in supporting students with disabilities. This special grant cycle will focus on research projects that accelerate pandemic recovery and recuperate learning loss in special education.
Recommended project scopes include:
- Helping to recover social, emotional, and behavioral skills in students
- Preparing students for transitions
- Supporting students who suffer from trauma, are experiencing homelessness, are in foster care or juvenile justice, or have migrant status
- Improving school-family partnerships
- Investing in professional development for special educators
- Creating data-based practices to identify students in need
This year’s competition will have two separate sets of deadline, the first encouraging letters of intent by June 30th and the second by July 15th.