The Evans School and UW College of Education received a $4.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. The grant will fund Preparing Scholars for Rigorous Mixed-Method Studies of K-20 Education Policies and Programs: The Collaborative Researchers for Education Sciences Training (CREST) fellowship program. The CREST program aims to prepare a new generation of education policy scholars with William M. Zumeta serving as a co-investigator. The inaugural cohort of fellows includes Evans School Ph.D. student Kate Destler and alums Michael Dearmond (MPA '01) and Shannon Matson (MPA '02).
Zumeta is serving as a co-investigator with Michael S. Knapp and principal investigator Robert D. Abbott, both of the UW College of Education. The award is one of 11 new predoctoral training grants available through the Education Research Training Grants Program of the National Center for Education Research (NCER).
Published on July 28, 2009
