Grant

PROGRAM DISCRIPTION
TYPES OF PROJECTS

CONTACT INFORMATION

AVERAGE AWARD/
NUMBER
PER YEAR

LAST KNOWN PROPOSAL DUE DATE

84.364A
Improving Literacy Through School Libraries

The Literacy through School Libraries program helps local education agencies (LEAs) improve reading achievement by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped, technologically advanced school library media centers; and professionally certified school library media specialists.

Irene Harwarth
Irene.Harwarth@ed.gov

U.S. Department of Ed.
Academic Improvement & Teacher Quality Programs
OESE, Rm. 2W104, FB-6
400 Maryland, Ave. S.W.
Washington, DC 20202-6100

Telephone (202) 401-3751
Fax (202) 260-7779

$200,000

100

Range of awards from
$30,000-
$350,000

3/01/2005

84.371A
Striving Readers Program

The purpose of the Striving Readers program is to raise the reading achievement levels of middle and high school-aged students in Title I-eligible schools with significant numbers of students reading below grade level. The program supports new comprehensive reading initiatives or expansion of existing initiatives that improve the quality of literacy instruction across the curriculum, provide intensive literacy interventions to struggling adolescent readers, and help to build a strong, scientific research base for identifying and replicating strategies that improve adolescent literacy skills.

StrivingReaders@ed.gov
Telephone (202) 205-6272 Fax (202) 260-7764

Kathryn Doherty
Kathryn.Doherty@ed.gov

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
400 Maryland Avenue SW
Room 3W344
Washington, DC 20202-6110

Telephone (202) 708-9499
Fax (202) 205-0303

1,000,000 to 5,000,000 per year

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11/14/2005