Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Measuring the Effectiveness of North American Environmental Education Programs with Respect to the Parameters of Environmental Literacy","North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)","2008: National Environmental Literacy Assessment",2008,NA08SEC4690026,"$288,417","Darlene Dorsey","District of Columbia",Washington,"District of Columbia",DC00,"38.9094, -77.0452","2007-12-31T23:00:00 - 2010-12-30T23:00:00","The North American Association of Environmental Education (NAAEE) will assess environmental literacy levels of middle school students and compare the results to baseline data collected nationwide in 2007. In this study the research team will solicit and select a purposeful sample of schools and other program sites that represent the following categories: (1) Networks, e.g., Lieberman schools, Earth Force/Green Schools, Blue Ribbon School, etc.; (2) Programs, e.g. WET, WILD, PLT, IEEIA, etc.); (3) environmentally focused Charter and Magnet Schools; and (4) Independent Schools. By comparing 2008 programmatic assessments to the established 2007 base-line levels of environmental literacy (while investigating the variables that may contribute to school wide or classroom levels of literacy), the field of environmental education and NOAA may make future curricular and program decisions that are grounded in sound scientific data. The Research Team will review these results and generate a report to be submitted to NOAA and NAAEE (and other partners as needed). These results comprise a presentation at the annual NAAEE Conference and other venues. Articles will be submitted to professional newsletters and journals.","Florida Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, University of Wisconsin–Platteville" "Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program","Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education","2010: Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship",2010,NA10SEC0080036,"$591,721","Vance Ablott",Virginia,Arlington,Arlington,VA08,"38.89273, -77.08059","2010-08-01T00:00:00 - 2015-08-31T00:00:00","The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program was enacted by Congress and is administered by the Department of Energy-Office of Science and managed by the Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education. Participation includes the Department of Energy (DOE), NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The program provides an opportunity for current public or private elementary and secondary mathematics, technology, and science classroom teachers with demonstrated excellence in teaching an opportunity to serve in the national public policy arena. This proposal seeks funds to place Einstein Fellows at NOAA over the five-year period 2010-2015. The NOAA Einstein Fellows will support NOAA's education vision of an environmentally literate public and a diverse workforce who will use NOAA's products and services to make informed decisions that enable responsible action. The Fellows provide practical insight in establishing and operating education programs and they provide ""real world"" perspectives to program managers developing or managing education programs.","Museum of Science Boston"