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- Spellings Announces 25 Teachers Selected for Teaching Ambassador Fellowships
Secretary Spellings announced 25 teachers have been selected for Teaching Ambassador Fellowships (TAF) with the U.S. Department of Education for 2008-2009. Five Washington Fellows will become full-time U.S. Department of Education employees in Washington, D.C., for one year, and 20 Classroom Fellows will remain in their classrooms and participate in the program through part-time projects.
- Save D.C.'s Vouchers
Secretary Spellings explains why Congress should "ensure that the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has the resources not only to survive but to grow, for this school year and beyond" in a op-ed that appeared in the Washington Post on July 8, 2008.
- Spellings Speaks at Education Leaders Forum in Paris
Secretary Spellings delivered the keynote remarks at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Education Leaders Forum in Paris.
- Student Loans: Avoiding Deceptive Offers
ED and Federal Trade Commission have jointly released a consumer guide to help students and their families navigate the maze of offers they may face when seeking new student loans or consolidating existing student loans to pay for higher education. Student Loans: Avoiding Deceptive Offers provides advice to help consumers detect deceptive marketing offers from private companies seeking their student loan business.
- Six States Approved to Use Differentiated Accountability
Secretary Spellings addressed the Education Commission of the States (ECS) National Forum on Education Policy and announced the approval of six states -- Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio -- to use the Differentiated Accountability Pilot aimed at helping states differentiate between underperforming schools in need of dramatic interventions and those that are closer to meeting the goals of No Child Left Behind.
- Reading First Data Show Gains
New data from states show improvement in nearly every grade and subgroup, including English language learners and students with disabilities.
- Teaching Resources: Independence Day, Science Videos and More
Independence Day, U.S. history, poetry, letter writing, energy and rock cycles, polar regions, plant genomes, nearly 100 science videos and webcasts, and teaching English language learners to read are topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find.
- Outline of U.S. History
Presents 15 chapters on U.S. history: early America, the colonial period, independence, formation of a national government, westward expansion and regional differences, sectional conflict, the Civil War and reconstruction, growth and transformation, discontent and reform, war, prosperity and depression, the New Deal and World War II, postwar America, decades of change (1960-1980), new conservatism and a new world order, and bridge to the 21st century. (Department of State)
- New Grant Opportunities
Notices inviting applications have been issued recently under ED programs that include the following: Centers on Research and Capacity Building to Improve Outcomes for Individuals with Disabilities from Traditionally Underserved Racial and Ethnic Populations, High-Quality Supplemental Educational Services and After-School Partnerships Demonstration, Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers for Individuals with Disabilities Living in Rural Areas, and Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers.
The Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 requires full-power television stations to cease analog broadcasts and switch to digital after February 17, 2009. The Act also authorizes Commerce's
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
to create the TV Converter Box Coupon Program. Coupons are worth $40 each, to be
used toward the purchase of up to two, digital-to-analog converter boxes.
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