Education Research and Special Education Research Grant Programs
Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
IES virtual office hours for technical assistance:   https://ies.ed.gov/funding/technicalassistance.asp

Federal Register Notice 6/10/2021 
PDF  https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-06-10/pdf/2021-12173.pdf 

National Center for Education Research NCER 

84.305A  Education Research  
Deadline 9/9/2021  
Career and Technical Education;  
Civics Education and Social Studies; 
Cognition and Student Learning; 
Early Learning Programs and Policies; 
Effective Instruction;  
English Learners;  
Improving Education Systems; 
Postsecondary and Adult Education; 
Literacy; 
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics Education; 
Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning. 
Note: While NCER is not now establishing a separate, stand-alone topic area within the Education Research Grants competition inviting research related to COVID–19 as authorized under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), IES invites applications to the standing topics listed above designed to accomplish this purpose. If you intend to submit a project in one of the topic areas identified above that is specifically intended to address COVID–19 learning loss, IES asks that you express or state this intention clearly in your proposal. 

84.305B  Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences  
Deadline 9/9/2021 
Early Career Mentoring Program for Minority-Serving Institution MSI Faculty;  
Postdoctoral Research Training Program in the Education Sciences; 
Methods Training for Education Researchers. 

84.305D   Statistical and Research Methodology in Education 
Deadline 8/12/2021  
Regular  and  Early Career 

84.305R  Research Grants Focused on Systematic Replication 
Deadline 9/9/2021 

84.305S  Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Recovery Policymaking 
Deadline 8/12/2021 

National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER)  

84.324X–1  Research to Accelerate Pandemic Recovery in Special Education 
Deadline  8/2/2021 

84.324X–2   Research to Accelerate Pandemic Recovery in Special Education 
Deadline  9/9/2021