Extractions: Student Resources Prospective Students: Student Loans Scholarships Self-Assessments Newsletter ... College Rankings Current Students: Search Tools Reference Tools Virtual Libraries About Online Education: Accreditation Diploma Mills eLearning Assessment eLearning FAQ ... Educational Technology Relevant News Accrediting Bodies Considering Standards "The six bodies that grant accreditation to colleges and universities in the United States are near agreement on guidelines for evaluating distance education that differ from traditional accrediting standards by focusing on how much students learn. If enacted, the regional accrediting agencies would use the guidelines to set standards for granting accreditation to distance-education programs and institutions." "Representatives of the six U.S. regional accrediting bodies have finalized a set of recommendations for building and evaluating online-education programs. But the recommendations won't become accreditation standards, says Charles M. Cook, the director of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges' Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. 'We've always considered them testimonials, not a new set of standards,' he says. 'It's always been the local regions' option of how to adopt them.'"
Community Health Charities Of Nebraska Home Page Charities of nebraska, formerly , is recognized as a model of health agency and As a federation of 16 voluntary health agencies, CHCNE offers http://www.chadnebraska.org/
Extractions: Community Health Charities of Nebraska, formerly , is recognized as a model of health agency and community collaboration since its establishment in 1972. As a federation of 16 voluntary health agencies, CHC-NE offers Nebraska's only campaign for health. CHC-NE and its member health agencies provide Nebraskans with programs for patient and community service, critical medical research and health education. CHC is proud to participate in these campaigns ...
Extractions: Resources Organizations Accepting CEUs Document Center Find Authorized Providers Find Organizational Members ... Media The following is a list of those companies, regulatory boards, and organizations that currently accept the IACET CEU. This list is not exhaustive, nor does it guarantee that an IACET CEU will automatically be accepted. CEUs may be subject to additional review by that specific company, board, or organization. IACET does not regularly monitor changes in organizations or regulatory boards requirements for acceptance of IACET CEUs. Individuals are strongly encouraged to check with their specific regulatory boards, employees or other agencies to confirm that courses taken from IACET Authorized Providers and courses taken for IACET CEUs will be accepted by that entity. Should your organization wish to be listed for accepting the IACET CEU, or if you know of an organization who accepts the IACET CEU who is not listed, please email
State Education Leader (Winter 2001): Rural Education Meanwhile, legislators in nebraska passed the education and Career www.ruraledu.org. ¦ ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural education and Small Schools One http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/24/10/2410.htm
Extractions: VOLUME 19 NUMBER 1 WINTER 2001 Education Commission of the States 700 Broadway, Suite 1200 Denver, CO 80203-3460 303-299-3600 fax 303-296-8332 www.ecs.org RURAL EDUCATION The Rural Bellwether Community Colleges: Key to Rural Success Iowa Links Education and Economy Special Education: Tough Issue for Rural and Remote Areas ... Rural Statistics By Kathy Christie Reprinted with permission from Phi Delta Kappan , February 2001. Schools in rural America face an array of problems every bit as daunting and intractable as those confronting schools in urban communities. In rural communities, graduating students who see no future locally leave town, and a snowball effect begins. These young people are no longer there to start families, to send their children to school, to buy toothpaste from the local druggist or houses from the local realtor. A brain drain begins that leaves fewer high-quality workers to attract high-quality jobs. Fewer high-quality jobs means even fewer opportunities for the next generation of students, who will find themselves forced by economic necessity to leave the community. In fact, in 22 states, more than half of all rural schools lost students between the 1994-95 and 1997-98 school years, according to the newsletter Rural Policy Matters. Those states with the highest percentages of enrollment loss were Louisiana, Idaho, North Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. States with large rural populations have begun to face these and other problems of rural schooling directly.
FRAC - Summer Food Service Program USDA provides funding through state agencies (generally state education agencies) to reimburse Randy Rosso at (202) 9862200 Ext. 3014, rrosso@frac.org; http://www.frac.org/html/federal_food_programs/programs/sfsp.html
Extractions: WIC ... CFNP Summer Food Service Program for Children (SFSP) When school lets out, millions of low-income children lose access to the school breakfasts, lunches and afterschool snacks they receive during the regular school year. The Summer Food Service Program for Children is a key to filling this gap. The Summer Food Service Program provides meals and snacks to children who might otherwise go hungry and is often provided in conjunction with educational, developmental, and recreational activities. With more parents working outside the home, organizations are serving school-age children afterschool as well as during the summer. History The Summer Food Service Program for Children (SFSP) was created by Congress in 1968. It is an entitlement program designed to provide funds for eligible sponsoring organizations to serve nutritious meals to low-income children when school is not in session. Benefits The SFSP feeds hungry children in the summer, gives a boost to public and private non-profit summer programs, and helps give low-income children the best start on the new school year. Many of the children served are at nutritional risk when they do not have access to school meals.
Early Childhood Education Assessment Consortium Method of Selection State education agencies SEA Directory Membership Meetings Profiles of State education Systems for Use with NAEP http://www.ccsso.org/projects/SCASS/Projects/Early_Childhood_Education_Assessmen
Extractions: select Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Col... DoDEA Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Northern Marian... Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming The ECEA SCASS presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Professional Development Instititute, June 6, 2005. Click here to view the presentation, "Accounting for Culture and Language-Building Appropriate Standards, Assessment and Evaluation Practices for Diverse Populations of Young Children." SCASS Members from Iowa and Nebraska also presented at the Miami PDI on Playing with the Standards: Using State Standards and Guidelines for Early Learning to Enhance Professional Development Click the following links to access the slides and resources from their presentation: Early Learning Guidelines Slides Playing with Standards Resources and Initiatives Matrix ; and North Carolinas Toolbox of Resources on the NC Foundations.
Extractions: NAEPDC Executive Committee The Executive Committee serves as the Board of Directors for the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium. NAEPDC Committees National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium committee lists (standing and ad hoc), special interest groups and state leadership collaboratives. General Membership List, by Region
Who Really Influences Extension Direction? Agricultural education Department University of nebraskaLincoln All groups (except Extension agents) indicated they had only slight influence on http://www.joe.org/joe/1990winter/a1.html
Extractions: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Historically, Extension has derived its program agenda from the people it served. With its emphasis on adoption and diffusion of practical research and educational applications, Extension has made effective use of a number of important principles of adult education. One is that the adult learner must be a key player as a program participant as well as a central figure in the program planning process. For the adult learner to be a central figure, program direction and policy must be derived from an analysis of the learner's needs. Active involvement of the people served in determining program direction has been the hallmark of the Extension (adult) education mission since 1914. As a model for nonformal adult education and one of the largest adult education delivery systems in the U.S., Extension is an organization that has to do it the right way. Knowles coined the term "andragogy" to describe the "art and science of helping adults learn."1 He indicated that one could tell if an adult education program would be successful by asking: "On what basis are the decisions made as to what will be offered in the program?" He says:
Nebraska Arts Council He serves as NAC liaison to the nebraska Department of education and nebraska She works with the nebraska Arts Council to implement agency goals and http://www.nebraskaartscouncil.org/index_html?page=content/ABOUT_NAC/Who/Who_His
Extractions: Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion Table I: Short- and Long-Term Impact Arizona California ... Order Information By Debra Hauser, MPH, Vice President, Advocates for Youth Since 1991, rates of teenage pregnancy and birth have declined significantly in the United States. These are welcome trends. Yet, teens in the United States continue to suffer from the highest birth rate and one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the industrialized world. Debate over the best way to help teens avoid, or reduce, their sexual risk-taking behavior has polarized many youth-serving professionals. On one side are those that support comprehensive sex education—education that promotes abstinence but includes information about contraception and condoms to build young people's knowledge, attitudes and skills for when they do become sexually active. On the other side are those that favor abstinence-only-until-marriage—programs that promote "abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard"[ ] of behavior. Proponents of abstinence-only programs believe that providing information about the health benefits of condoms or contraception contradicts their message of abstinence-only and undermines its impact. As such, abstinence-only programs provide no information about contraception beyond failure rates.
Esd123.org MONTANA, nebraska. Address Teacher education and Certification Texas education Agency 1701 N. Congress Ave. Austin, TX 78701 Telephone 1888-863-5880 http://www.esd123.wednet.edu/curriculum/certification/
CCFY | Initiatives: Out Of School Time washkon@esu1.org Polly Feis, Deputy Commissioner nebraska Department of education Texas education Agency 1701 North Congress Austin, TX 78701 http://www.ccfy.org/21cclc/21cclc_agencies.htm
Eagle Letter List nebraska Avenue Complex Washington DC 20393 Hon. Alberto Gonzales Attorney General Texas education Agency 1701 North Congress Ave. Austin TX 787011494 http://www.troop405.org/eaglelist/
State Profiles. Nebraska Fax 402551-7198 Web site http//www.childcarene.org. Child Care Food Program Agency. nebraska Department of education http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/statedata/statepro/nebraska.html
Extractions: Information 2000 Total Population: 2000 Number of Children aged 0-4: 2000 Number of Children aged 5-9 years old: 2000 Number of Children aged 10-14 years old: 2000 Total Number of Children under 18: Children under 5 as percent of population: Children under 18 as percent of population: Source: "Demographic Profiles: Census 2000," U.S. Census Bureau. 1999 Poverty Rate (all ages): 1999 Children Under 5 in Poverty: Source: "Table GCT-P14. Income and Poverty in 1999: 2000" and "Table P87. Poverty Status in 1999 by Age[17]- Universe: Population for whom poverty status is determined," U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3.
NCATE - Institutions - Program Review Process Kansas State Department of education mgage@ksde.org. Kentucky Adult Program Services, Dept. of education nebraska Department of education http://www.ncate.org/institutions/listofstatescontacts.asp?ch=90
Region 7 Links Page nebraska Department of education (NDE) Oversees nebraska s public education nebraska Assistive Technology Project (NATP) - Agency within NDE that http://www.rcep7.org/links/reg7.html
Extractions: //var DOCUMENTGROUP=''; //var DOCUMENTNAME=''; //var ACTION=''; Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri Main Web Page - The official state page, including a list of state agencies Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) (pronounced "DEH-see") Oversees Missouri's public education system Department of Mental Health (DMH) - The Agency that helps with problems associated with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance addiction in Missouri. Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services - Provides legal advocacy services to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities, especially with regard to state agencies. Department of Social Services (DSS) - Coordinates programs to provide public assistance to children and their parents, access to health care, services to the elderly, child support enforcement assistance and assistance to troubled youth. Some programs give financial assistance and services. Others work to reduce financial dependency of the citizens on government.
Education Programs In State Archives: State Government Employees Continuing education and training for state government officials provided Most training for state government agencies focuses on a life cycle approach http://www.coshrc.org/arc/education/edprogs-stgovt.htm
Extractions: Last updated September 5, 2002 Intro State Agencies Local Govts Professional Archivists K-12 Teachers/Students Grassroots ... Web-based In early 2001, we asked the State Archivists to tell us what educational programs their agencies and state historical records advisory boards (SHRABs) had in place for a variety of audiences. Please note: The information in the table below was gathered through the broad question "What is your state archives/SHRAB doing in the following education areas?" Accordingly, this is not intended as an all-encompassing summary of what the respondent states are doing, but rather, a sampling of the types of educational activities being undertaken at this time. Educational Programs for State Government Employees Summary: Of the thirty-three states included in this category, twenty-nine responded that they provide regular workshops and/or daily training for state records managers (six provide both). Only nine of the states indicated that they have manuals or retention schedules (CT, ME, MO, MI, OR, PA, SC, TX, WY), six of them are available on-line. Michigan and South Carolina have outside funding for state records education (NHPRC). Oregon is the only state providing Web-based training for state government at this time. States and Territories
MIDTESOL State education agencies (SEAs) receiving a grant must agree to spend at least 95 percent of Participate in TESOL s Advocacy listserv www.tesol.org http://www.midtesol.org/spc-page/
Extractions: ACTION ALERT: ERIC Clearinghouses on the Chopping Block! We who attended the MIdTESOL conference in Ames, Iowa on October Secretary Paige Kicks-Off First-Annual Summit on English Language Acquisition in Washington President Bush No Child Left Behind ACTION ALERT: ERIC Clearinghouses on the Chopping Block! 26, 2002 heard a wonderful keynote address from Dr. MaryLou McCloskey. She addressed the issue of Title III of the new federal law entitled "No Child Left Behind". Below you will find a desktop reference of Title III (put out by the U.S. Dept. of Ed.). And below it, you will find some of Dr. McCloskey's suggestions about we, as ESL educators, should respond (taken from her keynote address handouts.)
