The Lyle Spencer Fellowship Program supports intellectually ambitious research projects that aspire to transform education with budgets between $ 525,000 and $ 1 million and project durations of up to five years. We accept applications for this signing program once a year.
A clearly expressed commitment to sustainable improvement sets the Lyle Spencer awards apart from our other research grant programs. We hope to engage the research community to think big: do thoughtful work, criticize dominant hypotheses, self-criticize about work and its limits, and relevant in order to build knowledge for “sustainable improvement of education” which our founder Lyle Spencer challenged his foundation to promote.