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Reading First Data Show Gains

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New data from states show improvement in nearly every grade and subgroup, including English language learners and students with disabilities.

Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans

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A new website provides guidance, letters, and other information regarding ED’s authority to purchase federal student loans under the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008.

Grant Opportunities

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Notices inviting applications have been issued recently under ED programs that include the following: Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities, National Center to Improve the Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Personnel for Children with Disabilities, and Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program.

Six States Approved to Use Differentiated Accountability

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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.

GEAR UP Grants to Help 69,000 Students Pursue College

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Secretary Spellings announced the award of $41,573,649 for 24 new grants under the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) to help more than 69,000 disadvantaged middle school students receive assistance to prepare for and pursue a college education.

Grants for Training Highly Qualified Staff in Special Ed

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:55:25 +0000

ED announced the award of $4.37 million in grants to universities in 14 states to help train doctoral, post-doctoral and other graduate students to work with children with disabilities.

Teaching Resources: Independence Day, Science Videos and More

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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.

Grants to Promote Safe Schools and Healthy Students

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:55:25 +0000

More than $74 million in grants have been awarded to 27 states as part of a joint effort by the U.S. departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice to support schools in creating safe learning environments that promote healthy childhood development and prevent youth violence and drug use.

Energy and Material Cycles Visualizations

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:55:25 +0000

Provides animations, images, graphs, and photos on the carbon cycle, greenhouse gases, sea ice, sea level change, interglacial cycle, continental drift, tectonic cycle, and the hydrologic cycle. (Carleton College, National Science Foundation)