Rod Paige and Study Technology? Calling Virginia Waddy!
Feisty
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.gossip.celebrities/msg/154b40711abe2c24?hl=en&
The Reliable Source....
Leave no movie star behind: Church of Scientology cause celeb Tom Cruise slipped into
town this week for private meetings with senior Bush administration officials at the
Department of Education and the White House. On Thursday, Education Secretary Rod
Paige hosted a lunch for Cruise -- a conspicuous supporter of Bill Clinton before
President Bush took office -- so the actor could gab with education officials in the
secretary's dining room. "He wanted to learn more about the president's 'no child
left behind' program,' Education Undersecretary Eugene Hickok told us yesterday. "He
was impressed at how serious it is, and said that anything he could do to help he
would do. He also talked about his own challenges as a child trying to learn to
read." Hickock added: "We're willing to talk to anyone interested in the issue. I
don't think I'm star-struck." But we hear that on Friday at the White House, where
Cruise lobbied officials on Scientology-related issues, there were plenty of young
female staffers standing around, hoping to bump into him in the corridors of power.
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FOR RELEASE: November 10, 2003
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/11/11102003.html
PRESS RELEASES
$15 Million in Grants Awarded to Help States Study Technology's Impact on Student
Achievement
Grants part of No Child Left Behind Act's Enhancing Education Through Technology
program
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today announced that nine states will
share $15 million in grants to conduct rigorous, scientific evaluations of how
technology impacts student achievement in elementary and secondary education, which
will in turn assist other states and school districts with evaluating their own
education technology programs.
The competitive, three-year grants are part of the No Child Left Behind Act's
Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech) program, and are intended to
increase states' ability to design, conduct and acquire high-quality evaluations of
education technology. A complete list of grant recipients, award amounts and program
descriptions follows at the end of this release.
"These grants will help us better understand how various technologies are
making a difference in teaching and learning," Secretary Paige said. "As the
Web-based Education Commission noted, we need to study the impact of technology in
education. We don't want the mere acquisition of advanced education technologies to
be the end game -- we want it to be the starting point to apply proven strategies to
develop more effective teaching and boost student achievement."
Grant recipients are required to plan and conduct an evaluation of how their
education program uses technology to increase student achievement in one or more core
academic subjects; to test and document the methods, practices and instruments used
to assess the impact of the technology on student achievement; and to share this
information with other states.
The Ed Tech program aims to use technology to promote the goals and principles
of President Bush's sweeping education reform law, the No Child Left Behind Act. The
goals of Ed Tech are to ensure that every student is technologically literate by the
end of eighth grade, to encourage effective technology integration with teacher
training and curriculum development and to establish successful research-based
instructional methods.
No Child Left Behind is designed to change the culture of America's schools by
closing the achievement gap, offering more flexibility, giving parents more options
and teaching students based on what works. Under the act's strong accountability
provisions, states must describe how they will close the achievement gap and make
sure all students, including those who are disadvantaged, achieve academic
proficiency. In addition, they must produce annual state and school district report
cards that inform parents and communities about state and school progress.
Schools that do not make adequate progress after two years must provide public
school choice; followed by supplemental services, such as free tutoring or
after-school assistance; then take corrective actions; and, if still not making
adequate yearly progress after five years, make dramatic changes to the way the
school is run.
The department's Office of Educational Technology provides leadership to
maximize technology's contribution to improving education. The office develops
national educational technology policy and implements the policy throughout the
department in support of the No Child Left Behind Act. The office also helps ensure
that the department's programs are coordinated with efforts throughout the federal
government.
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http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2002/09/09172002.html
Paige Announces Formation of Two New Offices
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Office of Innovation and Improvement to
be established at Education Department
The new innovation and improvement office is intended to be a nimble,
entrepreneurial arm of the Education Department, making strategic investments in
promising practices and widely disseminating their results. It will also lead the
movement for greater parental options and information in education, and will free
other offices to focus on their core missions.
Heading the innovation and improvement office will be Nina Shokraii Rees,
deputy assistant to the vice president for domestic policy. Before joining the White
House, Rees served as an education advisor to the Bush campaign, a senior education
analyst at the Heritage Foundation
The Office of Innovation and Improvement will also house many of the
department's discretionary programs, such as transition to teaching and teaching
American history.
"Like today's best entrepreneurial foundations, this office will support
promising programs and -- working with the Office of Educational Research and
Improvement -- rigorously evaluate their results," Paige said.
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FOR RELEASE:
December 2, 2003
http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2003/12/12022003.html
Remarks of Secretary Paige before the Innovations in Education Exchange Series
President Bush and the Congress have provided a $3 billion increase for Title I
spending in the first two years following passage of No Child Left Behind. That is a
33 percent increase. The President sought an additional $1 billion for Title I in
Fiscal Year 2004.
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Did Rod Paige delve out millions in grants for Virginia Waddy's Study
Technology?
(However, I don't think that included the clay demo)
http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/
LATEST INCIDENT: An ex scientologist named Randy Payne, who used to run a chain
of english schools in Hungary, and learned of Virginia Waddy's 1889 version of
Hubbard's supposed "Study Tech" had his house front door broken down, and the place
was trashed, a computer was stolen.
Report is http://www.lermanet.com/exit/studytech/
Maureen