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Education Pioneers Joins 100Kin10, National Initiative to Grow STEM Teaching Force
03/14/2013
Education Pioneers, a national nonprofit organization operating in 16 cities nationwide, today announced that it has been accepted as a partner in 100Kin10, a multi-sector partnership addressing the national imperative to train 100,000 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers by 2021....
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Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research
03/04/2013
OFFICIAL OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY RESPONSE TO Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research....
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Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research
03/04/2013
The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for. ...
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We Paid for the Research, So Let’s See It
03/04/2013
The Obama administration is right to direct federal agencies to make public, without charge, all scientific papers reporting on research financed by the government. In a memorandum issued on Friday, John Holdren, the president’s science adviser, directed federal agencies with more than $100 million in annual research and development expenditures to develop plans for making the published results of almost all the research freely available to everyone within one year of publication....
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Families Affected by Cancer Urge Lawmakers to Restore Funding for Cancer Research and Programs
03/04/2013
Cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones are calling on Congress to restore critical funding for cancer research and prevention programs now that sequestration has taken effect, leveling across-the-board cuts for domestic programs. ...
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White House opens more federally funded scientific research to the public
02/22/2013
A new White House directive will allow the general public more access to federally funded scientific research, the Obama administration announced Friday....
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White House orders agencies to open access to research
02/22/2013
The directive instructs agencies with more than $100 million in annual research and development expenditures to craft plans to make the results of federally funded research available to the public — for free — in digital format within 12 months after its original publication. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, signed the memorandum on Friday....
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White House directs agencies to maximize free, public access to scientific research
02/22/2013
The White House on Friday ordered federal agencies to come up with plans to maximize free, public access to the results of federally funded scientific research....
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Musings from the East Room: Public Service as the Antidote to Partisanship
02/15/2013
Today I had the huge honor of being at the White House watching President Obama honor my colleague, former senator Harris Wofford, with the Presidential Citizen’s Medal. The president thanked Wofford for “upholding national service as one of our nation’s highest causes” and giving generations of Americans a chance to serve their country....
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Harris Wofford Awarded Presidential Citizens Medal
02/11/2013
Senator Harris Wofford, 86, the former Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy, co-founder of The Peace Corps and former CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Barack Obama on February 15, 2013....
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More Than 60,000 Have Died in Syrian Conflict, U.N. Says
01/24/2013
The analysis of deaths in Syria, described by Ms. Pillay as the most detailed and wide ranging to date, was based on a study of seven data sets, including one from the Syrian government, conducted on behalf of the United Nations human rights office by Benetech, a nonprofit technology company whose three earlier analyses of Syrian casualties used fewer data sets....
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Our greatest attribute: Helping others in need
01/24/2013
After traveling through our nation in the 1830s, French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville observed that “an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts [Americans] to assist one another and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.” A visitor’s eye picked up on a defining characteristic of our young democracy: self-sacrifice for the common good....
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Look to nonprofit sector to create jobs
10/23/2012
As both President Obama and Mitt Romney make the case for creating jobs, they are ignoring one of the fastest-growing job creators in our economy: the nonprofit sector. ...
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Alzheimer’s Association Wants Disease Discussed on Campaign Trail
10/22/2012
The Alzheimer’s Association is pushing for candidates in Iowa to talk about the need for more research funding even as the discussion on the campaign trail often reverts to the opposite — cutting federal spending....
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Accessible Images
10/03/2012
Benetech's Bookshare featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review...
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Bookshare Plans to Make Graphics, Math in Books More Accessible
09/25/2012
The U.S. Education Department just awarded Palo Alto, Calif.-based Bookshare another $32 million in grant money over the course of the next five years to convert more books into versions students with certain disabilities can download and read for free at the same time they are published on paper....
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Union could become top Carrera model
09/24/2012
Michael Carrera, founder of The Carrera Program to teach middle/high school students family life and sex education, speaks to teachers during a faculty meeting at the Union 6th/7th Grade Center. MICHAEL WYKE / Tulsa World...
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Who’s Against Blind People Reading? Nobody!
08/28/2012
So, why is it so hard to get an international treaty to help people with disabilities that affect reading print? Welcome to the weird politics of intellectual property. Basically, we have approval of a policy, but are unable to get a treaty to implement that policy....
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Dan Smith Featured In National Journal Education Experts Blog
08/23/2012
TSG Principal Dan Smith weighs in on some of the most pressing issues facing our nation’s students and teachers in education policy today. ...
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Bono and ONE praise SEC ruling, call transparency “the best vaccine against corruption”
08/22/2012
“This is where the rubber hits the road. Or rather, the oil and gas and copper and diamonds. For anyone who thinks corruption is as big a killer as AIDS, TB, and malaria are, this is a really big deal. As Justice Brandeis said long ago, sunlight truly is a disinfectant, to which I'd add that transparency is the best vaccine against corruption.."...
