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Duncan & Mills host #GradStartup Twitter Q&A
Small Business Administrator Karen Mills made her Twitter debut yesterday as she and Secretary Arne Duncan hosted an online Q & A responding to questions about how to start a new business, the loan repayment and forgiveness plans available to … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Student Aid, Headlines, Join the Conversation, News
Tagged Income-Based Repayment, Student Loans, Twitter
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ED & SBA Host Twitter Chat: Connecting Grads to Resources to Help Them Startup
Cross-posted from SBA.gov Graduation season is right around the corner and to help grads that are looking to start a small business, SBA and the U.S. Department of Education will host a Twitter Q & A Session on April 25 … Continue reading
#RuralED Chat Addresses Partnerships and Community Resources
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach John White joined W.K. Kellogg Foundation CEO Sterling Speirn recently in a discussion on Twitter about using partnerships and other resources to address the needs of high poverty rural schools. A snapshot of the … Continue reading
Busting Silos
Earlier this year the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) held a summit that brought together a group of education stakeholders who don’t typically engage with each other on a regular basis. During the summit, researchers, practitioners, policy makers and government … Continue reading
Plenty of Room at the Teachers’ Table
I’ve been a Spanish teacher for more than 30 years. All of the voices of educators I’ve known – in urban, suburban, public and private schools – sounded in my head last Wednesday as I listened to Secretary Duncan launch … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Join the Conversation, News, Teachers, Teaching Profession
Tagged RESPECT, Teaching Ambassador Fellows
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Financial Aid Awareness Month: Join ED for February #AskFAFSA Office Hours
It is an especially exciting time for us here at Federal Student Aid because February is Financial Aid Awareness Month. With many state financial aid deadlines approaching, now is a great time to complete that FAFSA you’ve been putting off. … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Student Aid, Headlines, Join the Conversation, News
Tagged FAFSA, Twitter
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Launching Project RESPECT
“Our goal is to work with educators in rebuilding their profession—and to elevate the teacher voice in shaping federal, state and local education policy,” said Secretary Duncan today at the launch of the RESPECT Project. “Our larger goal is to … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Join the Conversation, News, Teachers, Teaching Profession
Tagged RESPECT, Teaching Ambassador Fellows
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Budget Questions? Join Asst. Secretary Carmel Martin for #AskED Twitter Q&A
THIS TWITTER Q&A HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Yesterday, the Obama Administration released its 2013 budget request, which included new investments in education. The budget seeks to make college more affordable, align job training and education with the demands of the workforce, … Continue reading
Join Arne for a Twitter Town Hall on Hispanic Education
To follow up on the President’s State of the Union Address—in which critical topics like college affordability, dropout rates, teachers, and job training were addressed—Secretary Duncan will engage with the Hispanic community through a Twitter town hall at 3:00 p.m. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arne Duncan, Hispanic Education, Twitter
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Join the Conversation During the State of the Union
Save the date for Tuesday January 24, at 9 pm EST, when President Obama will give his annual State of the Union address, with education being a likely topic of discussion during the speech. You can watch an enhanced version … Continue reading
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Tagged President Obama, State of the Union
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Join ED and Teachers for a #TeachTalk Discussion on Twitter
“Teachers make thousands of decisions a day, and they don’t do it about an abstract idea, they do it about the life of a child. You can’t imagine anything harder.” -Brad Jupp, Senior Program Adviser on Teacher Initiatives, Office of … Continue reading
Talking Title IX on Twitter
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the civil rights law that ensures educational institutions that receive federal funding do not discriminate on the basis of sex. Secretary Duncan has said that Title IX is “one of the … Continue reading