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Government Education recent headlines | Item | Summary | | | | Career and Technical Education Grants | ED has awarded a total of $750,000 in grants to six states to help strengthen and enhance career and technical education (CTE) programs. Indiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nebraska, Florida, and Hawaii have received grants to support partnerships that will create new CTE programs, or adopt existing ones, that will align secondary and postsecondary education courses needed to prepare students for further education and employment. | | Teaching Resources: U.S. History, Polar Sciences, Countries of the World and More | The Constitution, U.S. government, international relations, nations of the world, pivotal moments in U.S. history, early childhood education, calculator-controlled robots, and polar sciences are topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find. | | When You Visit ED.gov, What Do You Hope to Accomplish? | When you visit ED.gov, why do you come -- what do you hope to accomplish? We are trying to identify the most important or popular tasks that people hope to accomplish at ED.gov, the main website of the U.S. Department of Education. Please help! Simply select the 5 tasks that are most important to you when you visit ED.gov. | | Statement on ACT Scores | "ACT scores for the Class of 2008 have remained largely steady, which is encouraging given that the number of test-takers has expanded rapidly to include many more students than ever before...." | | Appointees to Council on State Accountability Systems | Secretary Spellings announced the appointment of 16 members to the National Technical Advisory Council (NTAC), which Spellings announced as part of the proposed regulations to strengthen No Child Left Behind. | | Nominees to National Board of Education Sciences | President Bush today announced his intention to nominate eight individuals to serve as Members of the Board of Directors of the National Board of Education Sciences (NBES). | | 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. | | Historians on America | Looks at 11 developments that altered the course of U.S. history: the trial of John Peter Zenger and the birth of freedom of the press, the Constitutional Convention (1787), George Washington's concept of a limited Presidency, the Common School movement, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, the Interstate Highway System (1939-1991), the GI Bill of Rights, the Marshall Plan, Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon v. Wainwright, and the Immigration Act of 1965. (Department of State) | | Grant Opportunities | Notices inviting applications have been issued recently under ED programs that include the following: Center on Positive Behavioral Supports and Center on Dispute Resolution. | | We want your feedback! | Please let us know what you think of this news feed. |
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