On November 1, the National Board for Education Sciences unanimously approved new research priorities for the Department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Proposed by Director John Easton and submitted for public comment this summer, these new priorities are intended to make education studies more relevant to educators and help practitioners become more involved in developing and using research. IES’s topics of study will remain much the same under the new priorities. Yet, these new priorities place greater emphasis on putting research findings into context, “to identify education policies, programs, and practices that improve education outcomes, and to determine how, why, for whom, and under what conditions they are effective.” IES has also set as a priority identifying new and rigorous methods to measure outcomes in education research and building partnerships with educators and the community to develop greater “analytic capacity” at the local level. These priorities will be used to craft requests for proposals for new grant competitions in January.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://ies.ed.gov/director/board/priorities.asp .
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