U.S. Department of Education Organizational Chart
The Department's organizational structure, responsibilities and key staff.ED Pubs: On Line Ordering System
This new system is intended to help you identify and order U.S. Department of Education products.America Reads Challenge
The America Reads Challenge calls on all Americans to support teachers and help ensure that every American child can read well and independently by the end of third grade.The Reading Excellence Act
More than 500,000 pre-kindergarten through third-grade children will be served through the $260 million appropriated for FY 1999.Office of Special Education Programs
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) provides leadership and fiscal resources to assist state and local efforts to educate children with disabilities in order to improve results for those children and to ensure equal protection of the law.U.S. Department of Education Even Start Family Literacy Program
Even Start provides funds for family-centered education projects to help parents become full partners in the education of their children, to assist children in reaching their full potential as learners, and to provide family literacy training for their parents.U.S. Department of Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA)
The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA) provides technical assistance and support to school districts to help meet their responsibility to provide equal education opportunity to limited English proficient children.ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
ERIC/EECE contributes to the database in the areas of child development, the education and care of children from birth through early adolescence, the teaching of young children, and parenting and family life.
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