Looking Back and Ahead: The View from OII’s Assistant Deputy Secretary
This past calendar year, a number of new programs and initiatives were launched and many of OII’s existing programs were refined to align with the Department of Education’s commitment to being an...
View ArticleCity-Based Charter School Efforts: A Growing Movement
Education reform leaders gathered in New Orleans last month for a one-day National Charter School Resource Center (Resource Center) conference titled "Transforming Urban Public Education: Exploring the...
View ArticleFeature: It’s “Déjà Vu All Over Again” for Arts Integration
As Arts in Education Week – September 11-17 – was being observed, arts integration was a hot topic nationally. Consider these two statements about arts integration: (1) “Creative teachers have...
View ArticleGrants Awarded Under Charter Schools Program’s Charter Management...
(September 28, 2011) The U.S. Department of Education announced today charter school grants totaling $25 million to replicate and expand high-quality charter schools that have demonstrated success....
View ArticleDepartment Awards Nearly $5 Million in Charter School Grants for Planning,...
(October 5, 2011) The U.S. Department of Education announced today charter school grants totaling $4,792,526 to charter developers for planning, program design, and initial implementation, as well as...
View ArticleThe Pathway to Success: From Cradle to Career
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement Jim Shelton is a featured guest blogger on Tavis Smiley’s “Too Important to Fail” website, following the national premiere of the PBS...
View ArticleTwenty-three Investing in Innovation Applicants Named as 2011 Grantees...
(November 10, 2011) The U.S. Department of Education announced today 23 highest-rated Investing in Innovation (i3) applicants as potential grantees for the 2011 grant fund of the $150 million. The...
View ArticleResources for Observing Native American Heritage Month Year-round
First recognized as "Native American Indian Heritage Month" in 1990, by President George H.W. Bush, the month of November has been celebrated annually as "Native American Heritage Month" (or a variant...
View ArticleSchools, Districts, and States Transform Seat-based Requirements into...
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in addressing the "new normal" schools are facing – tight budget times that call for doing more with less and finding ways to innovate, increase efficiency and...
View ArticleCall for Peer Reviewers for FY 2012 Promise Neighborhoods Competition
The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII), is seeking individuals to serve as peer reviewers for the FY 2012 Promise Neighborhoods planning and implementation grant...
View ArticleTen Years of Arts Integration
In the past 10 years, the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) and Professional Development for Art Educators (PDAE) grant programs have unleashed the creative minds of...
View ArticleDrama and Theatre Educators Are Ready for the Next Act
AATE past presidents reflected on 25 years of efforts to strengthen the role of drama and theatre in schools and the lives of children and youth in a special conference session. Pictured (front row,...
View Articlei3 Project Directors Gather to Learn, Share, and Begin a New Project Year
Solving pressing education problems at scale, managing challenges posed by geography, engaging the community in school improvement, and sustaining reform efforts beyond federal project funding —these...
View ArticleDepartment Awards $6.6 Million Grant to Support Arts Education
(September 19, 2012) The U.S. Department of Education today awarded a grant of $6,640,000 to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to implement and expand its efforts in arts education and...
View Articlei3 Program is a Public Sector Bright Idea
OII’s Investing in Innovation program—better known as i3—is among 111 Bright Ideas recognized by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government,...
View ArticleNonpublic School Leaders Attend Annual Forum
On September 27th, the Office of Non-Public Education (ONPE) hosted the 8th Annual Private School Leadership Conference at the U.S. Department of Education’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Each year,...
View ArticleAll 2012 Investing in Innovation Top Applicants Secure Private Donors’ Support
(December 18, 2012) Today the U.S. Department of Education announced all 20 of the highest-rated applicants in the 2012 Investing in Innovation (i3) competition have secured their required...
View ArticleLeading in a Diverse Workplace: ED Staff Learn How From Award-Winning Teachers
"In an increasingly diverse world, it is important for teachers to have the skills to reach every student in the classroom and close the achievement gap," said the Southern Poverty Law Center’s...
View Articlei3-Funded Curriculum Transformation Documented and Shared
Today, Edutopia.org released a new video featuring one of OII’s i3 grantees — Bellevue School District’s Sammamish High School in Washington state. The video documents the transformation from the...
View Article22 Charter, Magnet, and Private Schools Among 2013 U.S. Department of...
The second-annual U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools award honorees were announced on April 22nd by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School...
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