Featured Event
The College Board's Access and Diversity Collaborative is pleased to announce its 2008-09 series of national seminars that will address a comprehensive mix of legal, policy, communications and advocacy issues associated with institutional efforts to achieve access and diversity goals. Led by EducationCounsel, the Collaborative will sponsor two series of seminars:
Knowing the Basics—a seminar series designed to address legal and policy fundamentals; and
Leading Institutional Change—a seminar series designed to address major policy and research trends, effective communications strategies, and key institutional policy management issues. (The first of the Leading Institutional Change seminars will be held in Austin, TX on October 23-24.) Further information regarding these seminars (including registration information), can be found at
www.collegeboard.com/diversitycollaborative.
U.S. Department of Education Headlines
Secretary Spellings traveled to Boston this week to discuss her plan to simplify the financial student aid application process. To read more
click hereNew Legislation
Congress is in recess until after the presidential election in November.
Federal Register Announcements
E-rate Notice of Inquiry: Comprehensive Review of Universal Service Fund Management, Administration, and Oversight. Comments must be submitted to the Federal Communication Commission no later than November 13, 2008. Reply Comments are due on or before December 15, 2008.
Publications
AYPF.
A New Student Assessment for the 21st Century. August 2008.
EPIC's review of Thomas B. Fordham Institute's
Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review. For the report, click here. For the review,
click here. October 2008.
The Brookings Institute.
The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra. September 2008. To attend the event on October 22,
click here.
