Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Request for Grant Proposals: Study of the United States Institute for Foreign Secondary Educators

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The Branch for the Study of the U.S., Office of Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, announces an open competition for public and private non-profit organizations to develop and implement the Study of the United States Institute for Foreign Secondary Educators. This Institute, for a multinational group of 30 experienced foreign secondary educators (including teacher trainers, curriculum developers and education ministry officials), is intended to provide participants with a deeper understanding of American life and institutions, past and present, in order to strengthen curricula and to improve the quality of teaching about the United States at secondary schools and teacher trainer institutions abroad. The institute should be organized around a central theme or themes in U.S. civilization and should have a strong contemporary component. The program, which should be six weeks in length, will be conducted during the Summer of 2005 and must include an academic residency segment of at least four weeks duration at a U.S. college or university campus (or other appropriate location) and a study tour segment of not more than two weeks that should not only