09.27.07
New — Children’s Literature: Digitized Print Materials
provides 50 digitized texts (with illustrations) of rare books: Arabian Nights, Baby's Own Aesop, Child's Garden of Verses, Ballad of the Lost Hare, Christmas Carol, Humpty Dumpty, Grasshopper Stories, Mother Goose Finger Plays, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Rocket Book, Stories from Hans Andersen, The Raven (Poe), Three Bears, Three Little Pigs, Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (Hawthorne), William Tell Told Again (Wodehouse), Wizard of Oz, and others. (Library of Congress)09.25.07
Spellings to Lead Presidential Delegation to China
Secretary Spellings will lead a presidential delegation to the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, China, on Oct. 2, 2007, and participate in a Global Policy Summit on the Well-Being of People with Intellectual Disabilities.Spellings Speaks at White House Conference
Secretary Spellings delivered remarks at the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conference on Youth and Education in the Hispanic Community.NCLB Bus Tour
Press releases, photos, and more from Secretary Spellings' three-day No Child Left Behind bus tour.Nation’s Report Card
"Student achievement is on the rise," Secretary Spellings said in response to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading and math. "No Child Left Behind is working."Statistics Online Computational Resource
Find online aids for teaching probability, statistics, and statistical computing -- graphs and calculators for showing distributions, computer-generated analogs of experiments, and more.09.21.07
ED Awards More Than $960,000 to Virginia Tech
ED has awarded Virginia Tech a $960,685 grant to assist with ongoing recovery efforts on campus, as well as to help develop a model for assessing and responding to at-risk behaviors in a higher education setting.Giving Parents Options: Handbook for Administrators
ED issued Giving Parents Options, a new handbook for local and state administrators and educators that provides strategies for informing parents of educational options for students and recommends effective ways to implement public school choice and supplemental educational services (SES) under No Child Left Behind.Secretary Spellings Concludes No Child Left Behind Bus Tour in Indianapolis
Secretary Spellings' bus tour concluded in Indianapolis, where she announced new guide books on K-8 charter schools and on authorizing charter schools and called on Congress to reauthorize the law this year.09.20.07
New — Statistics Online Computational Resource
provides online aids for probability and statistics education, technology-based instruction, and statistical computing. It includes interactive graphs and calculators for showing distributions, computer-generated analogs of experiments and popular games, web tools for statistical data analysis, simulations of real-life processes, modeling tools, a wiki, technology-based continuing statistics education, and more. (UCLA, Multiple Agencies)NCLB Bus Tour Visits Cleveland
Secretary Spellings held a National Parent Town Hall, visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and announced the Empowering Parents School Box.Giving Parents Options: Handbook for Administrators
Giving Parents Options, a handbook for local and state administrators and educators, provides strategies for informing parents of educational options and recommends ways to implement public school choice and supplemental educational services (SES) under No Child Left Behind.Deputy Secretary Visits Kansas
Deputy Secretary Simon joined U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) to highlight strides Kansas has made under No Child Left Behind and to announce an Early Reading First grant for the Wyandotte County Early Reading First program.09.17.07
ED Building Renamed to Honor Lyndon B. Johnson
Secretary Spellings honored President Lyndon Baines Johnson in a ceremony officially renaming the U.S. Department of Education building at 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. in Washington, D.C. as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building.Parents’ Town Hall Webcast
Secretary Spellings will participate in a live parents' town hall on Wednesday, September 19, from 6:00 to 7:00 Eastern Time. The webcast event, which will originate from Collinwood High School in Cleveland, Ohio, will feature Secretary Spellings in an interactive discussion with local parents and school leaders about ways to improve education in the U.S.09.14.07
Teaching Resources: Brain, Arts, Foreign Languages and More
The brain, poetry, painting, foreign languages, map making, Renaissance sculpture, and growing plants on the moon are among the topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find.Spellings Touts Louisiana’s Progress Under NCLB
Secretary Spellings traveled to Baton Rouge to recognize efforts in Louisiana to improve student performance by strengthening achievement standards under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and to announce the award of $30 million to Gulf Coast higher education institutions directly affected by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita during a seminar with business leaders at Louisiana State University.09.13.07
New — Interact
is a collection of self-guided explorations of American art and the work of artists. See slideshows on Joseph Cornell, Ruth Duckworth, and angels in American art. Visit an artist's studio. Learn what it takes to restore a valuable painting. Discover clues to the story behind "The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane" and other paintings. Hear lectures by art critics and sculptor Maya Lin, and roundtables of artists discussing their craft. (American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution)New — National Capital Language Resource Center
features "The Essentials of Language Teaching," an online publication that examines the goals and methods of teaching a foreign language. The publication examines how to plan lessons, motivate students, assess learning, and how to teach listening, speaking, writing, grammar, and culture. Elsewhere on the site, "Teacher's Corner" includes answers to questions on classroom management, teaching culture, vocabulary activities, and learning a foreign language. (Department of Education)New — Eugene Boudin
looks at the life and works of Eugene Boudin (1824-1898), a French artist who painted seascapes, beach scenes, and landscapes. Note how his paintings capture the light on water and clouds. See why another great artist called Boudin "king of the skies." (National Gallery of Art)New — History of Cartography
provides information on a multi-volume endeavor to assemble a comprehensive history of map making. Volumes that have been completed examine cartographies of prehistoric, ancient, and medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; traditional Islamic and South Asian societies; traditional East and Southeast Asian societies; traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific societies; and the European Renaissance. (Multiple Agencies)09.11.07
Spellings Speaks at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Conference
Secretary Spellings delivered remarks to higher education leaders, members of the business community, and policymakers at the 2007 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week Conference in Washington, D.C.Student Loan Defaults Remain Low
Secretary Spellings announced that the fiscal year 2005 national student loan cohort default rate fell to 4.6 percent from last year's rate of 5.1 percent -- remaining historically low.ED Review
Updates on NCLB, teacher quality, the upcoming ED TV show on empowering parents (September 18), and more.
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