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Highlighting Inclusion, Diversity and Human Rights at the Special Olympics World Winter Games
Posted by on January 31, 2013 at 6:33 PM EDTThe Secretary of Agriculture is leading the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
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Celebrating Mentoring Month with Science and Engineering
Posted by on January 29, 2013 at 11:56 AM EDTJanuary is National Mentoring Month—a time to recognize those who make a personal difference in the lives and futures of young people. In science and engineering fields, this means celebrating those who keep our next generation of innovators engaged and excited about science, technology, engineering, and math while helping them acquire the skills needed for the jobs of the future.
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Now is the Time to Reduce Gun Violence in Schools and Communities
Posted by on January 18, 2013 at 1:18 PM EDTSecretary of Education Arne Duncan says strengthening our student support systems with more resource officers, psychologists, social works and counselors will help reduce gun violence in our schools and our communities.
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Using Incentive Prizes to Tackle the Middle-School Math Gap
Posted by on January 10, 2013 at 4:23 PM EDTIncentive prizes are now a standard tool in every Federal agency’s toolbox to spur innovation and solve tough problems. With more than 200 prizes offered by over 45 Federal agencies so far, open innovation and incentive prizes are showing promise for catalyzing new solutions in the education sector.
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Year in Review: Don't Double My Rate
Posted by on December 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM EDTAs 2012 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the year’s policy milestones, including legislation President Obama signed this summer that stopped student loan interest rates from doubling for more than 7 million students.
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First-ever White House Codeathon targets Apps for Equal Futures
Posted by on December 20, 2012 at 12:38 PM EDTYesterday, we hosted the first-ever White House Codeathon! The goal of this event was to support the Equal Futures App Challenge, a challenge to create apps that inspire girls and young women to become leaders in our democracy. This challenge is in response to President Obama’s call to countries around the world to politically and economically empower women and girls.
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One Decade, One Million more STEM Graduates
Posted by on December 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM EDTLast week, the Obama Administration announced that increasing the number of students who receive undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by 1 million over the next decade has been formally designated as a Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) goal—one of a limited number of such articulated goals designed to focus cross-agency coordination and encourage sharing of best practices among agencies with complementary missions. The announcement signals a concrete step toward addressing recommendations made earlier this year by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
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Resources for Parents and Schools After Connecticut Tragedy
Posted by on December 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM EDTThe Department of Education offers a number of resources to help parents following traumatic events, as well as a host of resources to help schools prepare for and recover from crisis
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Get with the Programming!
Posted by on December 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM EDTThis week marks what would have been the 106th birthday of Grace Hopper—an American Naval Officer known to some as “Amazing Grace” and to others as the “Mother of Computing,” whose work laid the foundation for one of the first modern computer programming languages. In recognition of her pioneering example, students, parents, schools, and communities across the Nation are spending a week in celebration of computer science education.
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Making Makers in Los Angeles
Posted by on December 12, 2012 at 10:31 AM EDTSoon after taking office in 2009, in a speech at the National Academy of Sciences, President Obama called on the science, engineering, and technology communities to “encourage young people to create and build and invent – to be makers of things not just consumers of things.” Here’s what one leader in the maker community shared about her experience bringing kids and families into the growing community of American makers.
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