The Future of Education Research at IES Advancing an Equity-Oriented Science (2022) / Chapter Skim
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In this chapter, the committee describes IES's operating structure, funding and staffing resources, the centers' project types and topics, and recent policy and programming efforts. We will return to the discussion of how the research centers operate throughout this report, referring to this chapter's content to respond to the questions posed by our statement of task.
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Programming The programming work of IES is accomplished through the work of four independent research centers: NCER, the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, and NCSER. As noted in Chapter 1, in accordance with the committee's statement of task, this report is focused on the work of NCER and NCSER, also referred to as "the research centers" of IES.
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NCER and NCSER fund these activities through a competitive grant process, and the funding to support research and research training programs is provided through annual congressional appropriations.1 Administration IES has two primary functions that are part of the Office of the Director: (1) the Office of Administration and Policy provides ongoing administrative support for the activities of the centers and the Office of the Director and (2)
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NBES consists of 15 voting members appointed by the President of the United States. The director of IES, each of the four commissioners of the National Education Centers, the director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the director of the Census, the commissioner of Labor Statistics, and the director of the National Science Foundation all serve on the board as nonvoting ex officio members.
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In comparison, the Education and Human Resources division of the National Science Foundation operated in FY2020 and FY2021 with a $940 and $968 million budget, respectively. Similarly, funding for the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development -- a subagency of the National Institutes of Health with a mandate similar to that of NCSER -- has a $1.6 billion budget.
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X Prize In March of 2021, Director Schneider introduced a competition designed to stimulate innovation in digital learning. According to his blog (Schneider, 2021)
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. Given the identification of usefulness in education research as a crosscutting theme described in Chapter 1, the committee notes the existence of multiple bodies of research that provide evidence related to the utility and function of research-practice partnerships.
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In its open sessions with IES staff, the committee asked for demographic and institutional information related to funded and unfunded applicants, as well as reviewer panels, and was informed that such information was not available for privacy and statistical reasons. In a post shared to the Inside IES Blog on September 16, 2021, IES shared limited demographic data about applicants (see Box 3-2)
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Of those applications that were funded, 10 percent of NCER's awards were made to MSIs and none of NCSER's awards was made to an MSI. IES reviewed the demographic information that FY 2021 NCER and NCSER grant applicants and awardees voluntarily submit ted, and among those who reported their demographic information, found the following: • Gender (response rate of approximately 82%)
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Michigan State University. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences.
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