IDDLab director Kirby Deater-Deckard has been selected to chair the 2020 Social/Behavioral scientific review panel/study section, at the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

The “Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Influences on Learning” program at IES supports research and education practice at the intersection of cognition, learning and social-emotional factors. This program also oversees most of the federally funded research on formal and informal educational environments and their impact on learning outcomes.

IES distributes approximately $600M per year in research and program evaluation grants.