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JUNE 22, 2010

Secretary Duncan, Jill Biden to Visit Classroom, Participate in Roundtable on Educating Children of Military Families

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Dr. Jill Biden will be at Fort Belvoir Elementary School on Tuesday, June 22, visiting a second grade classroom and later participating in a roundtable discussion on the unique educational needs of children of military members.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Education Department's Greg Darnieder Delivers Remarks at XAP Corporation's Reach Farther Conference

The U.S. Department of Education’s Greg Darnieder will deliver the opening remarks at XAP Corporation’s Reach Farther conference on Monday, June 21, at 1 p.m. at the Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver. Darnieder is senior advisor to the Secretary on the College Access Initiative.

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JUNE 19, 2010

U.S. Education Secretary Duncan, Department Staff to Watch WNBA Game Saturday Night

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Education Department staff will watch the WNBA Washington Mystics take on his hometown team, the Chicago Sky, at the Verizon Center on Saturday evening, June 19.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans to Deliver Commencement Address at Cal State University San Bernardino

Juan Sepulveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, will deliver the commencement addresses for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Education at California State University San Bernardino on Saturday, June 19.

Oklahoma State regents OK $1B budget, tuition hike - Boston.com

Oklahoma State regents OK $1B budget, tuition hike

By Jeff Latzke

Associated Press Writer / June 18, 2010

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OKLAHOMA CITY—The $1 billion budget approved Friday for Oklahoma State University's next fiscal year includes tuition hikes, no raises and money for a new pilot program that will provide 125 students with free iPads to test out as a classroom tool.

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The university will pay slightly less than the $499 retail value to provide Apple Inc.'s new tablet computer to students in five communications and business courses at the Stillwater and Tulsa campuses beginning this fall.

"You'll see this all over America in higher education," university president Burns Hargis said. "(The University of Oklahoma's) going to be doing these kinds of

The Washington Teacher: Letter From A Second Year DCPS Teacher

Letter From A Second Year DCPS Teacher

by The Wash. Teacher

Having grown up in a family with much older grandparents, I always valued the opinions and words of wisdom from my elders. Even though I prided myself in having a mind of my own, I learned early on that wisdom and life experience bring much needed insight. I think some people often refer to it as going to the school of 'hard knocks'.

Several years ago I ran into several younger teachers who overwhelmingly supported WTU's infamous red and green contract proposal for DC teachers mainly due to the hefty salary increases. I couldn't help but realize they didn't even know the half of what they were embarking upon. Little did I think that I would ever be able to convince them about what was happening on our educational landscape. This very blog was born out of my desire to offer another view point to union members like them about how this red and green proposal would strip all of us of long earned tenure and seniority protections and almost always lead to termination. Needless to say, due to elevating this issue, the red and green proposal soon became history.

Much to my surprise I received an email from one of these teachers who is now a second year teacher. Several years ago, she along with her cohorts chastised me on blogs and in person for not supporting Rhee's reform model and the WTU red and green tiered proposal. This teacher's recent correspondence gives new meaning to the colloquialism 'listen to your elders.'

NorthJersey.com: Catholic Church and Paterson discuss converting parochial school into public academy

Catholic Church and Paterson discuss converting parochial school into public academy

Friday, June 18, 2010

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Church and Paterson school officials are collaborating on a deal that could transform Paterson Catholic High School into a public charter school.
The deal, confirmed by participants on Friday, could ease the space crunch in the public schools, provide lease money to the debt-burdened Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson and allow for many of PC’s students to stay put.
But because it calls for a measure of church involvement in what would be a tax-supported school, city educators said they were still reviewing whether the arrangement would fit under constitutional separation of church and state.
“There are some positives for us to consider,” said Paterson schools Superintendent Donnie Evans. “But there are long-term, short-term and church-state issues to consider.”
The charter plan was outlined in an announcement posted on the diocesan website.

Alternative high school grads head to college with scholarship help and a chance at their dreams | OregonLive.com

Alternative high school grads head to college with scholarship help and a chance at their dreams

Published: Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:50 PM Updated: Friday, June 18, 2010, 7:04 PM

Carolina Hidalgo, The Oregonian
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Benjamin Brink/The OregonianEgbevado Ananouko (from left), Cristian Munoz-Campos, Abby Parker, Patricia Orduna-Torres and Jalena McCleary celebrate their graduation last week from Open Meadow High School. All are recipients of a scholarship aimed at helping students who overcame obstacles such as language barriers, being a parent and spending time in foster care -- and who face challenges in attending college.

Thirty miles.

That's the distance Egbevado Ananouko remembers walking at age 8 to get from his village in Togo, in West Africa, to a refugee camp in neighboring Benin.

He spent three years in the camp, with no schooling and little food, followed by news of a sponsor and a flight to the United States.

At 11, Ananouko touched down in Portland, where the language was strange and the weather felt like being in a refrigerator. He quickly turned to violence to deal with taunts he couldn't understand.

"I went through a lot of hard times trying to connect with people," Ananouko, 20, said last week at North Portland's Open Meadow High School, a school for at-risk youths. "I kind of used anger to solve my problems because I didn't understand English."

But now, Ananouko is one of a dozen new graduates set to start college in the fall with a scholarship specifically for students who overcame hardships to finish high school and who face further obstacles in attending college.

"It really recognizes students who've struggled along the way but have succeeded and show the potential to continue," said Simone Rede, who works with students at alternative high schools

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