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Grant Writing
Basic Elements of Grant Writing. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting offers free online tutorials on how to apply for most grants. Information can be applied to a classroom project as well as a district-wide project.
Ten Commandments of Private Foundation Grant Proposals. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of Science magazine and Science's Next Wave, held a series of career development activities at their annual meeting 17 to 22 February 2000. One of those workshops--"Research Grants: Trolling for Research Dollars" --described "various aspects of the quest for research money." Panelist John Hurley, associate vice president for the MacArthur Foundation, explained to the audience of graduate students, postdocs, and administrators the benefits of applying to private organizations for research funds.
Grammer Refresher. Grammar-4-Dummies offers a quick and dirty guide to understanding and fixing the most common grammatical and mechanical mistakes made.
Education
Good News about Public Schools in the USA. The National Education Association (NEA) has up-to-date information on how public schools are doing throughout the country, without all the media spin and hype. Find out how schools are doing in your state and even your local area!
FREE Classroom Resources. More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
Making Sense of Educational Terms. An online dictionary by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), A Lexicon of Learning, provides clear definitions of educational terms in everyday language.
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