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• Nominate a Teacher for the 2010 Presidential Awards

  
  BDPA Foundation — Authority: 135
  The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is the highest award a K–12 math or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the U.S . The President officially names up to 108 teachers annually ( award winners from 2007 shown in the above photo ). Awards alternate ...
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• ABA’s Loan Relief Proposal for Law Graduates Rejected by Congress

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 446
    Despite recent efforts from the American Bar Association to help recent law school graduates defer their student loans, neither the Obama administration nor Congress have gone along with the ABA’s recent proposal.  Carolyn Lamm, ABA President, said last week that the association will keep pushing by building ...
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• TN Department of Education Develops Pandemic Flu Preparedness Guide

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 448
  Nashville – The Tennessee Department of Education has developed, with support and guidance from the Tennessee Department of Health, a pandemic influenza preparedness planning guide for school districts that includes a Continuity of Learning plan. “This planning guide will allow districts to think ahead and ...
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• Gain Benefits of Federal Student Loans

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 444
  There are two types of Federal Student Loan programs, one the Direct Federal Loan Program and the other Federal Family Education Loan Program . Both of them are key components of successful college financial aid strategy. Federal Student loans should have to be a very first step they take in the financial aid ...
  2 weeks ago

• Promise Neighborhoods Bring Change to Families in Inner-Cities

  
  Edu in Review Blog — Authority: 125
  Sometimes it is hard to break out of a cycle, especially when the cycle is one your family or you have been living for years. But a non-profit organization called the Harlem Children’s Zone does just that for children and families who live in one of the most impoverished cities in the country. The Harlem ...
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• John Hope Bryant joins Secretary Geithner and Secretary Duncan for release of U.S. Presidents Advisory Council on Financial Literacy inspired report on financial capabilities

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 131
  In my capacity as vice chairman of the U.S. Presidents Advisory Council on Financial Literacy (Council), chairman of the Council Committee on the Under-Served, and of course founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, I was honored today to join Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, ...
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• Cohort Default Rates: Who Changed the Most?

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 513
  As I noted earlier , one result of the new trial three-year cohort default rates are that all sectors have higher average default rates than they did under the two-year measurement window. But these rates also represent a summation of all schools in a given sector, obscuring those who either had very small gains or ...
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• Hints on a national strategy for educational technology in the USA

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 560
  Downey, G. (2009) ED’s new tech chief previews national plan eSchool News , December 2 This is a report of a recent speech by Karen Cator, the new director of education technology at the US Department of Education. The new National Education Technology Plan will have four areas of focus: access, assessment, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Breaking: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s Question to 14 Year Olds: “Spit vs. Swallow?… Is it Rude?”

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 178
  Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Recently he was appointed by the Obama administration to run the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the US Department of Education. In 2007 Kevin Jennings was paid $273,573.96 as the executive ...
  4 weeks ago

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