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  • View Webinar from November 10: How Congress and USED are Changing Federal Education Policy

    Nov 30, 2011

    Rich Long, IRA Director of Government Relations

    Learn how the administration is defining new policies through the waiver process and funding proposals. Find out how the rewriting of ESEA can affect you and literacy education.

    View the webinar here.

     


  • Webinar on November 10: How Congress and USED are Changing Federal Education Policy

    Nov 01, 2011

    Webinar with Rich Long, IRA Director of Government Relations,
    11/10/11, 2 PM EST


    On 10/20/11, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed a bill to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

    Congress and USED are changing how US federal education policy is defined and implemented. Learn how the administration is defining new policies through the waiver process and funding proposals. Find out how the rewriting of ESEA can affect you and literacy education. Register here. (Log-in details will be emailed to you when you register.)

    View the webinar here. 

     

     


     

    ALSO COMING UP:
    Trends in Policy that Impact Reading
    Webinar with Rich Long, IRA Director of Government Relations.
    11/14/11, 3 pm EST


    On the list of things you will learn: updates on decisions being made on Capitol Hill regarding ESEA reauthorization, core standards, teacher evaluation, waivers, early childhood, jobs bill, assessments, striving readers and other new literacy programs, new research impacting literacy, working with your state and federal representatives. Register here. (Log-in details will be emailed to you when you register.)


  • Webinar on November 14

    Oct 18, 2011

    Webinar: Trends in Policy that will Impact Reading 

    Rich Long, IRA Director of Government Relations 

    Wondering what the concepts will be that will be used to measure your literacy program in the new standards based world? Wondering why we have transition specialists and not more reading specialists? Wondering why everybody wants to evaluate teachers based on student achievement? This webinar will explain the trends and what you should be preparing for as education policy continues to change.

    November 14, 2011

    3:00 p.m. EST

    Register here

    Click here to view the webinar.

    Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation.

     


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