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The 2012 NAPE Professional
Development Institute is scheduled for April 16-19,
2012, at the Doubletree Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
Stay tuned for more details!
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Resources
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AAUW and the WAGE Project will provide $tart
$mart Salary Negotiation Workshops throughout the
2011-12 academic year to prepare college women to negotiate for
salaries and benefits as they enter the job market.
The National
Women's History Museum Exhibit "Latinas
in the New World" is online.
Lilly
Ledbetter's book, Grace
and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond, is now available for pre-order
on Amazon.
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Save the Date
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ACTE
Webinar: Why Industry Certifications Are
Important-A Case Study, october 26, 2011, 2:00 PM ET
NASDCTEc
Fall Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 24-26,
2011
National
Association for Multicultural Education 2011 Conference,
Chicago, IL, November 2-5, 2011
ACTE
Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo, St. Louis,
MO, November 17-19, 2011
CA
Joint Special Populations Advisory Committee Conference,
December 5-7, 2011, Sacramento, CA
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Disclaimer
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Any opinions,
findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the
material published in the NAPE Update are those of the author(s) and
do not necessarily reflect the views of NAPE.
Furthermore,inclusion of a product, program, or practicein the NAPE
Update does not imply its endorsement by NAPE.
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Materials Use Policy
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Please note that
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and created by the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
(NAPE) and/or the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
Education Foundation (NAPEEF) is copyrighted.
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Dear NAPE Members,
I am pleased to announced that NAPE Chief Operating Officer Claudia
Morrell will be honored for her contributions to women and girls in
STEM during the grand opening of the Maryland Women's Heritage
Center's exhibit, "Explorations
& Discoveries: Maryland Women Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics."
The NAPE Professional Development Institute will be held April 16-19,
2012, in Arlington, VA. Later this week, NAPE will announce a Request
for Presenters, open registration, provide information about
sponsorship and advertisements, and provide a link for making hotel
reservations. Please look for a special PDI message with all of this
information.
NAPE is currently seeking candidates for two newly created positions:
Public
Policy Director and Director
of Resource Development and Management. Please
take a moment to review the job descriptions and forward them to
anyone you think might be interested and qualified.
Finally, I'd like to congratulate Jesselynn Harvey, who recently won
the Car Care Women's Board "Show
Us Your Wheels" contest. Jesselyn is a
student at Chester County Technical College High School, a school
that is serviced by a regional educational agency that contracted
with NAPE to implement the Program Improvement Process for Equity.
You can watch Jesselyn's winning video on the
Women's Board webpage.
Mimi
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President Obama Jobs Bill Stalled in Senate
Rosalind S.
Helderman and David Nakamura, Washington Post
President Obama's
$447 billion jobs plan foundered in the Senate on October 11, as a
unified Republican caucus and a pair of Democrats joined to deny the
proposal the 60 votes needed to allow it to proceed to full
consideration. Learn
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House Draft Maintains Funding for Perkins
The House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
Appropriations Subcommittee released its FY 2012 draft bill and
funding allocations on September 29. In this draft, Perkins has been
level funded, but there is still much more work to be done. Learn
More from ACTE
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CR Cuts
Impact Perkins Funding
On September 26, the Senate passed a continuing
resolution to prevent a government shutdown. In this bill, all
government programs were victims of an across-the-board cut of 1.5
percent to serve as a placeholder until the final funding bill is
passed. Early indications were that these temporary cuts would not
affect education because the final funding bill would be complete
before most education funds are distributed in July 2012, but it
turns out that Perkins was impacted. Learn
More from ACTE
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U.S.ED's IES' NCES Releases Projections of Education
Statistics to 2020
This report provides national-level data on enrollment, teachers,
high school graduates, and expenditures at the elementary and
secondary school level and enrollment and earned degrees at the
postsecondary level for the past 14 years and projections to the year
2020. Access
Report
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Miss. Starts Offering Students 3 Pathways to Graduation Chris Kieffer,
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
A new Mississippi Department of Education initiative will make it
possible for some students to graduate from high school with fewer
than the 24 credits currently required. The Pathways to Success
program aims to better connect education and the workforce. Beginning
this spring, all eighth-grade students must chose one of 16 career clusters
that most interests them. Read
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Pilot Aims to Ready High Schoolers for Community College
in 2 Years Catherine
Gewertz, Education Week
Twenty-one high schools in four states are working this fall to
restructure their academic programs into "lower division"
and "upper division" courses that are aimed at readying all
students for community college by the end of their sophomore year. Read
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Students Learn from Workplace Mentors WJXT,
Jacksonville
A new program geared toward bringing high school students to the
workplace involves one of Jacksonville's intervene schools, a major
corporation and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Florida. In the
program, students from Andrew Jackson High School go to the Haskell
Company, Florida's largest privately held construction company, twice
a week in an effort to learn and build relationships with members of
the workforce. Read
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Broader Look at Completion Shows Community College Gains Caralee Adams,
Education Week
In the past two decades, the percentage increase in credentials
awarded at community colleges has been double the percentage increase
in enrollment, and improved minority student performance is narrowing
the achievement gap, according to a policy brief from the American
Association of Community Colleges shows. Read
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Prior Learning Assessments: Tools to Help 21st Century
Students Achieve Their Postsecondary Education Goals and Keep America
Competitive Center
for American Progress and Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
This new brief highlights several approaches that allow adult
students to receive college credit for what they already know. Learn
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Single Mothers and College Success: Creating Paths out
of Poverty Women
Employed
This report explains that state and federal governments could take a
series of steps to increase the chances that single mothers progress
to and through college, Many of the proposed changes revolve around
changes in government welfare programs that would give recipients
more credit for educational activities than they now receive. Access
Report
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TANF in Rural America Carsey Institute
This report provides a fresh look at rural-urban differences in rates
of poverty and welfare receipt, and in TANF's ame¬liorative impact on
poor families. Access
Report
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