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- Edvance Research to Provide Keynote at Public School Choice Conference
- SAN ANTONIO -- Kristin Mitchell, Vice President of Emerging Practices at Edvance Research, will provide a keynote address at the Public School Choice Conference on Thursday, December 6th in Columbia, South Carolina. The forum is being hosted by the South Carolina Department of Education. The conference is targeted to...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- ENGAGING PARENTS IN EDUCATION: Lessons From Five Parental Information and Resource Centers
- ENGAGING PARENTS IN EDUCATION: Lessons From Five Parental Information and Resource Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, 2007. This text profiles five federally funded Parental Information and Resource Centers PIRC programs that successfully demonstrated how parents can become involved in their children's education. It...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Pearson Wins New Five-Year Testing Contract From U.S. Department of Education
- To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORSContact: David Hakensen, +1-952-681-3040, for Pearson IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The United States Department of Education has awarded a new five-year contract for the period 2008-2012 to the Educational Measurement group of Pearson for delivering and scoring the National Assessment of Educational Progress NAEP. Pearson...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- ETS Wins New 5-Year National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Contract
- The U.S. Department of Education has extended Educational Testing Service's ETS contract for the National Assessment of Educational Progress NAEP, popularly called "The Nation's Report Card," for another five years. The extension for 2008-12 continues ETS's nearly 25-year association with the most important, nationwide, educational assessment programs in the...
- Research articles 2007-10-12
- Westmoreland County Community College Receives First Technical College Program Grant
- To: STATE EDITORSContact: Michael Race of Pennsylvania Department of Education, +1- 717-783-9802 Additional Grant Recipients to Be Selected in Early 2008HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Education Secretary Gerald L. Zahorchak today announced that Westmoreland County Community College will be the first institution to receive a grant through the states...
- Research articles 2007-08-22
- 'Knowledge' is power, when it comes to Long Isand textbook company
- The classic, even cliche success story starts in a garage and moves out and up. But Benjamin Conn went the other way. Conn took his family's barely surviving business, Knowledge Industries, from a store in Brooklyn in 1994 to his father's garage in Oceanside. "Little by little, we...
- Research articles 2007-06-29
- Total crime decreases but homicides rise in public schools.(Spotlight: Government Risk Management)(Brief article)
- Byline: Dave Lenckus Total school crime and theft rates in 2004 fell to 55 incidents from 73 per 1,000 students in the previous year, according to "Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2006,'' published by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- Secretary Zahorchak Honors Migrant Education Program Graduates
- To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: Michael Race of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, +1-717-783-9802 HARRISBURG, Pa., June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 75 students from across Pennsylvania were honored today by Education Secretary Gerald L. Zahorchak for graduating from the Department of Education's migrant education program. "This program is an important tool...
- Research articles 2007-06-07
- Profit upgrade pushes ASG to a record.(Financial report)
- Byline: Joshua Gliddon May 23, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Western Australian WA IT services company ASG Group has significantly increased its profit forecast. The group announced on 23 May 2007 that it expected EBITDA for 2006-07 to be...
- Research articles 2007-05-23
- The metrics of success.
- Byline: Robert Muir Apr 18, 2007 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Robert Solow's thesis on the economic stimulation produced by innovation won him the 1987 Nobel Prize. Solow estimated that technical progress was responsible for about 80 per cent of increases in output...
- Research articles 2007-04-18
- Farm skills fail to make the grade.
- Byline: Megan McNaught Mar 28, 2007 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Financial incentives awarded to other trades are not given to farm apprentices and trainees. Apprentice gasfitters and plumbers, for instance, receive $A800 for tools and payments of $A500 per annum...
- Research articles 2007-03-28
- Sylmar
- Teach: Los Angeles Mission College has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to boost the number of Latino teachers in California. The funds, which will be shared with Loyola Marymount University School of Education, will help fund strategies and activities to draw...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- The votes are in, but the issues are unchanged
- The results of the midterm elections are now settled with both the House of Representatives and the Senate turning from Republican to Democratic. When either turns over, all the committee chairmanships and the leadership positions change parties as well, so George Miller of California will chair the House Committee on...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- K-State Using U.S. Education Department Grant to Support Big 12 Engineering Consortium And Regional Policy Work.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-21 November 2006-Kansas State University: K-State Using U.S. Education Department Grant to Support Big 12 Engineering Consortium And Regional Policy WorkC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21112006 MANHATTAN -- A U.S. Department of Education grant that will help Kansas State University partner...
- Research articles 2006-11-21
- Advocacy, action plans lead to success: state association/ASHA partnerships focus on personnel standards and strategies.(Personnel Issues: Focused Initiative)(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association )
- To address threats to personnel standards and alleviate personnel shortages, ASHA's Schools Personnel Resource Team SPIRIT has partnered with seven states targeted under the 2006 Focused Initiatives on Personnel Issues in Healthcare and Education--Arizona, Idaho, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, ...
- Research articles 2006-09-26
- Summit to focus on afterschool programs.(National League of Cities's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families )
- On May 22-24, hundreds of city officials will convene in Washington, D.C., for what promises to be a pivotal event in the afterschool movement. The National City Afterschool Summit, sponsored by NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families YEF Institute, will offer municipal...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Perot Systems awarded U.S. Department of Education Data Exchange Network contract.
- Perot Systems Corporation(NYSE: PER) has announced that its government services subsidiary was awarded a contract from the Department of Education for the operation, maintenance and enhancement of the Education Data Exchange Network EDEN. The contract includes a three-month base period and four one-year option periods. The...
- Research articles 2005-08-22
- Why Integrative Learning? Why Now?
- The impulse to connect is a universal human desire and a critical component of intellectual and emotional maturity, and probably always has been. The challenges of the contemporary world, however, have brought a new urgency to the issue of connection and integration. An early cartoon in the always-insightful Dilbert series...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- The American University School of Education was recently awarded a five-year, $6.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education
- The American University (Washington, D.C.) School of Education was recently awarded a five-year, $6.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance the teaching skills and content knowledge of teachers, and to increase the academic achievement of students in Washington, D.C., public and public charter schools.
- Research articles 2005-05-05
- Envisioning the future: the U.S. Department of Education's National Technology Plan.(TEACHERS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING)
- INTRODUCTION Teachers and administrators in schools everywhere are greeted each day with students armed with technology, unlike any previous generation of students. There are cell phones, laptops, iPods, personal digital assistants, computer games and more. The schools are struggling to manage...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
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