The Goal Of The Fund Is To Provide Direct Financial Assistance To Aspiring Female Athletes Who Are U.S. Citizens Or Legal Residents.
The Barbara Bush Foundation For Family Literacy Is Pleased To Announce Our 2012 National Grant Competition. The Foundation's Grant-making Program Seeks To Develop Or Expand Projects Designed To Support The Development Of Literacy Skills For Adult Primary Care Givers And Their Children. A Total Of Approximately $650,000 Will Be Awarded; No Grant Request Should Exceed $65,000.
The GEAR UP Program Is A Discretionary Grant Program That Provides Financial Support For Academic And Related Support Services That Eligible Low-income Students, Including Students With Disabilities, Need To Enable Them To Obtain A Secondary School Diploma And To Prepare For And Succeed In Postsecondary Education.Priorities: This Notice Contains Two Competitive Preference
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Because IPM Believes That Education Is Vital To The Formation Of Leaders And Good Citizens, And An Integral Part Of Economic Survival For Individuals As Well As Communities And Our Country, It Has Created The IPM Leadership Education Grant. This Grant Will Be Awarded To A High School Teacher Who Demonstrates Outstanding Leadership, Honesty, And Integrity, And Presents A Plan That Will Instill These Traits In His/her Students.The Purpose Of The Grant Is To Provide Funds For A Classroom Teacher Who Has An Innovative, Meritorious Idea That Will Advance Leadership, Citizenship, And Service. A Qualifying Project Would Make Creative Use Of Teaching Aids Or Activities And Approach The Subject Matter From An
Imaginative Angle.
He calls it the UnCollege movement: Nineteen-year-old Dale Stephens is urging his peers to rethink the need for college, arguing that they can get more out of pursuing real-world skills than completing homework assignments and studying for exams.
Starting this fall, the Indiana Department of Education will no longer require Indiana’s public schools to teach cursive writing, reports the Tribune-Star.
For 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history, according to a scathing 413-page investigative report released Tuesday by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, Yahoo! News reports.
The U.S. Department of Education has joined the District’s investigation into allegations that some recent big gains on standardized test scores might have been the result of cheating by teachers or principals, a D.C. official said Thursday, reports the Washington Post.
During Obama's Twitter Town Hall meeting Wednesday, several questions focused on U.S. schools' needs and budgets, NPR reports.
Today Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, introduced the State and Local Funding Flexibility Act, a bill that would provide states and school districts greater flexibility to spend federal money, reports the Center for American Progress.
A new security hole has opened up in Apple Inc.'s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the susceptibility of some of the world's hottest tech gadgets to hacker attacks.
With Education Secretary Arne Duncan warning Congress that he'll take matters into his own hands if lawmakers this year fail to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), eSchool News recently asked readers: “What’s one change/revision/addition you’d like to see in ESEA?”
As of Friday, homework can account for no more than 10 percent of a student's grade in the Los Angeles Unified School District--a change that drew national media attention. "The phones have been ringing off the hook," district spokeswoman Judy Elliott said.
In a flurry of education bills passed last week, Oregon governor John Kitzhaber oversaw legislation to appoint an unlikely candidate for superintendent of schools: himself, reports the American.
Michael Gove, UK's Secretary of State for Education, believes that video games can help aid the study of mathematics and science in the nation's classroom, TechSpot reports.
Does U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have the legal authority to move forward with a proposal that allows states to bypass school performance requirements set out by a federal law in exchange for new requirements? Asks the Huffington Post.
After several years of state and local budget cuts, thousands of school districts across the nation are gutting summer-school programs, cramming classes into four-day weeks or lopping days off the school year, even though virtually everyone involved in education agrees that American students need more instruction time, reports the New York Times.
Just a month before classes start, Atlanta schools officials are trying to determine how many of the 178 teachers and principals accused of cheating are still on the job following a scathing state investigation that found some educators held "changing parties" to correct answers, the Associated Press reports.
When an award-winning journalist recently revealed he's an illegal immigrant, two of the key players in his tale turned out to be educators who helped keep his secret. It's the kind of story teachers and principals scattered across the country know well.
Children who attend high-quality pre-kindergarten programs are more likely to graduate from high school, says a new report that calls on states and communities to build an aligned system to support early childhood learning and kindergarten programs.
