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Today, you have something more valuable than anything you can imagine. In the present day, you have life and you have the fortune to live it in your own extraordinary way

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In a recent ceremony in the East Room of the White House, President Obama signed an Executive Order (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/19/executive-order-white-house-initiative-educational-excellence-hispanics) to renew the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.  Among the changes, the order provides a better structure for the Initiative to take action and forge partnerships between the public, private, and non-profit sectors in local communities nationwide.  Also, an enhanced interagency working group and a 30-member Presidential advisory commission will work with the Initiative, to bring the voice of the American people into the policymaking process.

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The Department held a National Policy Forum for Family, School, and Community Engagement on November 9.  Several senior officials from the Department and other education stakeholders delivered remarks or participated in panel discussions, focusing on the shared responsibility and best practices to support children’s learning, from cradle-to-career, in the home, school, and community.  The Administration is proposing to double funding for parent and family engagement -- from 1% to 2% of Title I funding, or a total of $270 million.  At the same time, in order to drive innovation, it will allow states to use another 1% of Title I funding, roughly $145 million, for grant programs that support, incentives, and help expand school district-level, evidence-based parental involvement practices.

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On November 1, the National Board for Education Sciences unanimously approved new research priorities for the Department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES).  Proposed by Director John Easton and submitted for public comment this summer, these new priorities are intended to make education studies more relevant to educators and help practitioners become more involved in developing and using research.  IES’s topics of study will remain much the same under the new priorities.  Yet, these new priorities place greater emphasis on putting research findings into context, “to identify education policies, programs, and practices that improve education outcomes, and to determine how, why, for whom, and under what conditions they are effective.”  IES has also set as a priority identifying new and rigorous methods to measure outcomes in education research and building partnerships with educators and the community to develop greater “analytic capacity” at the local level.  These priorities will be used to craft requests for proposals for new grant competitions in January.  

 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://ies.ed.gov/director/board/priorities.asp.

New Report on Black Male Achievement Gap Leads Experts to Call for Action

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GOP Gains Could Prompt Funding, Policy Shifts

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GOP Gains Could Prompt Funding, Policy Shifts

Thought of the Day

The real significance of achievement is not what you acquire today. Achievement is the consistent competitive effort of work you put into retaining lifetime results.