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Leadership Council. For more than four decades, NAAEE has been a leader in promoting excellence in environmental education throughout North America.
In response to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions beginning to review and prepare legislation to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, the STEM Education Coalition submitted a letter to Senator Michael Enzi and Senator Bob Casey regarding several important issues.
Leaders in business, education and politics love to talk up how important Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education is for America's future. Innovations! Jobs! Progress! are all at stake, they often argue. Just last week, President Obama hosted scores of mostly young people for an evening of stargazing and fun space talk at the second-ever
the mandatory caps on spending known as sequestration, and potentially created an easier path for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to be reauthorized.
Representatives. So what does the Wisconsin Republican's record indicate he could do regarding education policy? There's the immediate and momentous question of how he'll deal with reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
As states begin receiving results from assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards, international education consultant and former OECD analyst
After one week, the federal government has received nearly 3,000 comments about its proposal to expand the amount of time a foreign STEM student can work in the U.S. on a student visa. Not surprisingly, most comments are supporting the changes proposed by the Obama administration.
