Apply for a fellowship to the NSTA New Science Teacher Academy
NSTA New Science Teacher Academy, co-founded by the Amgen Foundation, is a professional development initiative created to help promote quality science teaching, enhance teacher confidence and classroom excellence, and improve teacher content knowledge. According to a 2003 study by Richard Ingersoll, nearly 50 percent of beginning teachers leave their jobs in the first five years. The NSTA New Science Teacher Academy endeavors to use mentoring and other professional development resources to support science teachers during the often challenging, initial teaching years and to help them stay in the profession.
Grants for nonprofit organizations that focus on healthy lifestyles in children
The Saucony Run For Good Foundation was created to help reverse the trend of childhood obesity. Research shows running can help children do better in school, manage stress, and reduce childhood obesity, as well as providing strong legs and healthy hearts.
Up to $500 for children’s efforts to improve their communities
Youth Service America and Disney are offering Disney Minnie Grants to fund children’s efforts to improve their communities. The grants of $500 are for children ages 5 to 14 or the organizations that engage them, to implement youth-led service projects that address the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.
$2,000 to young female social entrepreneurs
Youth Service America has launched the first annual Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards to recognize two young female social entrepreneurs, ages 14 to 17, whose initiatives serve the common good. The awards are created in memory of Gladys Coccia, who began her entrepreneurial career when she was a young girl in West Virginia and later became a very successful businesswoman in Washington, D.C.
Girls must live in the United States – with special consideration given to nominees in West Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, have her own social enterprise, be supported by contributions of at least $1,000, and have a business plan, including an itemized budget.
Education secretary: Detroit schools are ‘ground zero’
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said May 13 that Detroit’s troubled public schools are “ground zero” for education in the U.S. and promised federal help if leaders are willing to make necessary changes, reports the Associated Press.
A campaign for parents to shut down schools
It might be the next school movement to sweep the country, reports U.S. News: Emboldened by charter school operators, parents of children attending failing schools in Los Angeles are signing petitions that could force the nation’s second-largest school system to shut down those schools and reopen them as charters.
Unused eRate funding totals billions
About $5 billion of the estimated $19.5 billion in eRate funds committed to schools and libraries from 1998 to 2006 were never used, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Key words: e-Rate, e-Rate funding, education, technology, federal education funding
Student blogs can win cash for college
Karissa Snow won $5,000 in scholarship money just by blogging and winning her peers’ approval. She’s among 40,000 students vying for tuition cash every week on CollegeNET, a web site that lets current and prospective college students post blog entries on a myriad of topics. The student who receives the most votes from CollegeNET members every week wins thousands for college. Key words: CollegeNET, scholarship money, credit crisis, University of Hawaii, social networking, education, technology
Student blogs can win cash for college
Karissa Snow won $5,000 in scholarship money just by blogging and winning her peers’ approval. She’s among 40,000 students vying for tuition cash every week on CollegeNET, a web site that lets current and prospective college students post blog entries on a myriad of topics. The student who receives the most votes from CollegeNET members every week wins thousands for college. Key words: CollegeNET, scholarship money, credit crisis, University of Hawaii, social networking, education, technology
Fumes from bottle sicken students at Ill. school
Authorities in the Chicago suburb of Lockport, Ill., locked down a high school campus after mysterious fumes from a bottle left in a hallway sent 13 students to a hospital.
Key words: school safety, school evacuation