Awards for child and adult poetry promoting peace
The Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award is an annual series of awards to encourage poets to explore and illuminate positive visions of peace and the human spirit. The Poetry Awards include three age categories: Adult, Youth 13-18, and Youth 12 & Under. Poems must be original, unpublished and in English.
$5,000 for schools that serves as a community center
The Richard Riley Award is open to all elementary and secondary public schools that serve as centers of their communities. Teachers, superintendents, students, principals, school business officials, board members, and architects (affiliated with an eligible school) may apply. The school illustrating the most community collaboration and school design excellence will win $5,000.
Up to $500 for physics teachers
Offered by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), the Bauder Grant for Support of Physics Teaching provides up to $500 to K-12 teachers for special activities in the area of physics teaching. This includes the development and distribution of innovative apparatus for physics teaching and the funding of related workshops. This is a great opportunity for physics teachers to enhance their physics curriculum with hands-on science activities and inquiry-based investigations. Only AAPT members can apply.
$3,000 for principals to initiate a community-engaging a project
The Sharing the Dream grant is awarded to principals who wish to initiate a project that actively engages their communities. Projects should distribute leadership and decision-making, encourage parents to become involved in the school, and ensure that students and families are connected to the health, human, and social services they need to stay focused on learning. Proposals must be implemented during the 2009-2010 school year. Winners will receive $3,000, a toolkit of resources focused on engaging families and communities, and inclusion in the “spotlight” publication that describes the Sharing the Dream projects.
Layoffs mean LA schools lose new breed of teachers
Thousands teachers in Los Angeles will receive pink slips. By next school year, 2,100 city teachers are slated to lose their jobs — a 5 percent hit to the nation’s second-largest school district, reports the Associated Press.
Duncan: Students, not banks, on ED’s agenda
U.S. Education (ED) Secretary Arne Duncan told eCampus News on June 12 he will work with private lending companies as the Obama Administration pushes for a direct federal student loan system, adding that he will not compromise in extending college money to low-income students or in bolstering the nation’s college-completion rate. Key words: Arne Duncan, Education Secretary, student lending, direct lending, Obama, college completion rate, Pell grant, education, technology
Duncan: Use tech to leverage change
To avoid being caught short when stimulus money runs out, school officials should use the short-term federal funding to upgrade technology and improve the tracking of student data, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told eSchool News in a wide-ranging interview on June 12. Key words: Arne Duncan, Educaton Secretary, Obama Administration, stimulus, South Carolina, Mark Sanford, education, technology
Data-Driven Schools See Rising Scores
The Edline system used by the Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools emails poor grade to parents as soon as teachers logged it in, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Colo. governor’s education plan includes increasing technology
Gov. Bill Ritter says his administration is working on a master plan to change the face of education in Colorado and that he’ll present his proposals to lawmakers in two years, reports the Associated Press.
Stations Turn Off Analog Signals as Digital TV Deadline Arrives
The New York times reports that across the United States today, television stations will power down the analog signals that have sent TV shows into homes for six decades.