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Celebrating the Power of Girls
Posted byon October 11, 2012 at 5:34 PM EDTEvery year on October 11, countries around the world will honor the importance of empowering girls so that they can reach their full potential. Happy first-ever International Day of the Girl!
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Equal Futures: Opening Doors to High-Quality Education and Career Opportunities for Women and Girls in STEM
Posted byon October 10, 2012 at 11:23 AM EDTLast week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and 12 other international leaders officially launched the Equal Futures Partnership, a new multilateral initiative to break down barriers to women's political participation and economic opportunity.
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Improving Education for American Indians and Alaska Natives
Posted byon October 5, 2012 at 5:13 PM EDTThe Obama Administration announces nearly $2 million in competitive grants to Tribal Education Agencies under the State-Tribal Education Partnership program.
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Weekly Wrap Up: Operation Educate the Educators
Posted byon October 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM EDTHere's a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Joining Forces to Train Teachers to Serve Military Children
Posted byon October 3, 2012 at 5:23 PM EDTMore than 100 colleges of education have joined “Operation Educate the Educators” which is dedicated to raising awareness about military children in classrooms, and to helping better prepare teachers to support those students
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Fueling American Entrepreneurship With Open Data
Posted byon October 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM EDTFor decades, entrepreneurs have used government data from Global Positioning Systems, weather monitoring stations, and other sources to power their products and services.
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Scientist Behind the Scenes: Equal Futures Partnership Launch
Posted byon September 28, 2012 at 5:54 PM EDTBrittany Wenger, 17, is the Google Science Fair 2012 Grand Prize Winner. She created a Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer detection, and attended the Equal Futures Partnership launch this week.
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Education Drives America
Posted byon September 26, 2012 at 11:57 AM EDTSee photos from the Department of Education's coast-to-coast back to school bus tour.
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White House Equal Futures App Challenge to Promote Civic Education and Public Leadership for Girls
Posted byon September 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM EDTThe White House Council on Women and Girls is launching a challenge for developers: Create an app that promotes civic education and/or inspires girls to serve as leaders in our democracy
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Grand Opening of Dillon’s New Middle School
Posted byon September 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM EDTOn Thursday, September 6th, Doug McKalip, Senior Policy Advisor for Rural Affairs attended the grand opening of Dillon Middle School in Dillon, South Carolina.