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Last Update: Tue Jun 10 02:38:11 2008

+ Spellings Speaks at Reagan Presidential Library + Secretary Spellings delivered the keynote address at the grand opening of the Air Force One Discovery Center at the Ronald Reagan ...

+ Readiness and Emergency Management Grants Awarded to 92 School Districts + Secretary Spellings announced the award of $24 million in grants to 92 school districts in 34 states to help them enhance and fortify ...

+ Teaching Resources: Water, Spreadsheets, Trails West and More + Water purification, spreadsheets, nanotechnology, planets, Escher, and trail diaries (1850s-60s) are topics of new resources at FREE, ...

+ Plan for Ensuring Access to Federal Student Loans + As part of its continued commitment to make sure students have access to federal student loans in the coming academic year, the [...] stability in the near term to ensure that all qualified students have access to federally insured loans for the coming school year.

+ Doing What Works: Early Childhood Literacy + ED's Doing What Works website recently added a feature that will empower educators and administrators with research-based strategies [...] in five research reports previously released by the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) on early childhood education.

+ Teaching and Learning Resource -- Decades of Discovery + Describes 100 important discoveries in energy sciences, nuclear and plasma physics, advanced computing research, and biological and [...] be made more affordable, unraveling the mystery of antimatter, simulating environmental problems, and others. (Department of Energy)

+ Grant Opportunities + Notices inviting applications have been issued recently under ED programs that include the following: Center on Knowledge Translation [...] Master's Degrees; Regional Technical Assistance and Continuing Education (TACE) Centers; and Technical Assistance Coordination Center.

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