Education Support
Museums and libraries support formal education from early elementary through the highest levels of research and scholarship.
Search the Awarded Grants database for grants to programs that strengthen education support (issue areas have only been assigned to grants awarded since FY 2009)
Education support content on the IMLS Web site:
September 27, 2012 07:52 AM
Museums and libraries will address school readiness and summer reading loss.
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June 6, 2012 10:59 AM
Libraries to develop new tools to combat summer learning loss.
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June 16, 2010 07:00 AM
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced a national campaign aimed at engaging museums, libraries, and civic leaders in meeting the 21st century learning needs of their communities.
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August 9, 2012 09:52 AM
Did you know that August is Connected Educator Month? Find out how the Department of Education is connecting educators of all disciplines and levels collaborate online—it’s not too late to participate!
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July 27, 2012 10:39 AM
David Heiser describes Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History's Event-Based Teacher Collaborative, which is funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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July 13, 2012 04:11 PM
IMLS Director Susan Hildreth joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan to launch a summer learning series with special celebrities and over 130 students from DC area schools, camps, and youth programs.
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Art museums can be excellent English literacy classrooms. An innovative program that partners university and community college ESL programs with New York City art museums is finding that works of art generate excellent discussions for students of English.
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The Seattle Art Museum’s “Art Goes to School” project is helping the Museum fulfill its mission of connecting art to life for more K–12 students and their teachers with a range of outreach and professional development activities.
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The Event-Based Teachers Collaborative at Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History supports K-12 school teachers and their students by facilitating the development of new and exciting curriculum that integrates museum objects while aligning with national and state standards for learning.
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On August 30-31, 2004 the Institute convened a conference and workshop examining the intersections of museums, libraries, and K-12 education. The resulting report captures the key issues that emerged at the workshop, highlights seminal project and partnership examples, and provides some common language around a vision for how museum/school/library collaborations can contribute to a learning society.
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