One Stop Shopping. Descriptions of nine new initiatives for Fiscal Year 1999 are now available in one place on the Department of Education website. Technology Teacher Training, Improving Teacher Quality, Bilingual Education Professional Development, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships. On the third Tuesday of each month during the school year, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley hosts the Satellite Town Meeting, a free, live, interactive teleconference about community efforts to improve teaching and learning. They provide training and technical assistance to America Reads and other Corporation for National Service projects focused on literacy and education.
Participation is on a space available basis.
This feature includes interactive educational activities for both parents and children. Kappa Delta Sorority, with over 155,000 collegiate and alumnae members, and Girl Scouts USA, with 3.5 million members and over 223,000 troops, recently signed a formal collaborative agreement. Designed to help California elementary schools link to the goals of the America Reads initiative, the program provides schools with a formalized structure that provides training, staff development, program manuals, and additional materials. Available to children in kindergarten through grade 6, California Reads can be implemented by elementary schools, after school programs, Boys and Girls Clubs, and civic organizations. Volunteer tutors including AmeriCorps and Work-Study students also can use the program.