Secretary Duncan and HHS Secretary Sebelius announced the H1N1 PSA Contestwinner and a flu webinar for teachers and students at 1:30 pm ET September22. More: continued here

Early Reading First grants to 28 local education agencies and other public or private organizations in 18 states and DC will help improve the school readiness of young children, especially those from low-income families. More: continued here

It is worth reminding people about the Trails assessment tool that is available for anyone to use with their learners. You can sign up immediately as a tutor, and choose which multiple choice test you want your learners to take. They are aimed at older schoolchildren (I think? 6th and 9th grade, not sure what [...]

Sometimes things I’m reading via RSS feeds evaporate as soon as I’ve read them. Others linger a while, and sometimes they strike up conversations with each other. Not long ago, a columnist at AAC&U’s Leap project blog, liberal.eduation nation, complained about the increasing crowd of literacies clamoring for our attention and suggesting that apart from [...]

OOTJ readers saw the post from the Boston Globe, a few weeks ago, where the headmaster of the private school, the Cushing Academy, was proudly announcing that he was disposing of all the 20,000 books in the library and moving to a “bookless” model. Henceforward, the Cushing Academy would use only a handful of Kindles, [...]

Registration now open!LACUNY Institute 2009: “Library Leadership: The Next Generation.”When and Where? Friday, October 23, 2009 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.Academic libraries are undergoing a significant demographic shift that is dramatically changing the make-up of the profession. At the heart of this transformation is the large [...] More: continued here

Secretary Duncan praised the coalition of states that announced the release of draft college- and career-ready standards in English and mathematics. More: continued here

Secretary Duncan announced the I Am What I Learn video contest. Students are invited to create a video about why education is important to fulfilling their dreams. More: continued here

Communicating knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings is an interesting report released last week. “It investigates a series of questions in three broad areas: 1. Publication and dissemination behaviour; 2. Citation behaviour; 3. The perceived influence of research assessment (past and anticipated)” For the information of non-Brits, “research assessment” means [...]

Including SamuelPhotographer Dan Habib’s documentary on his son Samuel’s experience as a child with a disability and his own experience as Samuel’s father.Check out the extended trailer. More: continued here