EducationCounsel E–Updates

October 6, 2009

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Update

The U.S. Department of Education today released proposed priorities, requirements and criteria for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's $650 million Investing in Innovation grant program.  Interested parties will have 30 days from publication of the Public Notice in the Federal Register to file comments. (For more information, click here.)

Federal Register Announcements

Overview Information. Office of Postsecondary Education; Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) Fellowship Program

Overview Information. Office of Postsecondary Education; Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program, CFDA Number 84.022A; Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2010

New Legislation

H.R.3661: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a monthly housing stipend under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT)

H.R.3683: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish the Teacher Incentive Fund Program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Tom Price (R-GA)

U.S. Department of Education Headlines

$6.6 Million in Striving Readers Grants Awarded to help Struggling Readers (September 2009)

Education Secretary Duncan Announces $43 Million in Grants to Improve Teaching in High-Need Schools (September 2009)

$21.8 Billion Distributed to Promote Educational Improvement (October 2009)

Publications

National Center for Education Statistics. Teacher Strategies to Help Fourth-Graders Having Difficulty in Reading: An International Perspective (September 2009)