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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202
Phone, 800-USA-LEARN (toll-free). Internet, www.ed.gov.
SECRETARY OF EDUCATION Richard W. Riley
Chief of Staff Diane Rossi
Director, Office of Public Affairs Alex Wohl, Acting
General Counsel Judith A. Winston
Inspector General Lorraine Lewis
Deputy Secretary Frank S. Holleman III
Assistant Secretary for Scott Fleming
Legislation and
Congressional Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Gilberto Mario Moreno
Intergovernmental and
Interagency Affairs
Chief Financial Officer Thomas Skelly, Acting
Chief Information Officer Craig Luigart
Director for Management Willie Gilmore
Under Secretary Judith A. Winston,
Acting
Assistant Secretary for Civil Norma V. Cantu
Rights
Assistant Secretary for C. Kent McGuire
Educational Research and
Improvement
Assistant Secretary for Michael Cohen
Elementary and Secondary
Education
Assistant Secretary for Lee Fritschler
Postsecondary Education
Assistant Secretary for Special Judith E. Heumann
Education and
Rehabilitative Services
Assistant Secretary for Patricia W. McNeil
Vocational and Adult
Education
Chief Operating Officer for Greg Woods
Student Financial
Assistance
Director, Office of Bilingual Arthur Love, Acting
Education and Minority
Languages Affairs
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The Department of Education establishes policy for, administers, and
coordinates most Federal assistance to education. Its mission is to
ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence
throughout the Nation.
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The Department of Education was created by the Department of Education
Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3411) and is administered under the
supervision and direction of the Secretary of Education.
Secretary The Secretary of Education advises the President on education
plans, policies, and programs of the Federal Government and serves as
the chief executive officer of the Department, coordinating and
overseeing all Department activities, providing support and
encouragement to States and localities on matters related to education,
and focusing the resources of the Department and the attention of the
country on ensuring equal access to education and promoting educational
excellence throughout the Nation.
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Activities
Bilingual Education The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority
Languages Affairs administers programs designed to fund activities that
assist students with limited English proficiency. The Office administers
grants and contracts for research and evaluation, technical assistance,
and clearinghouse activities to meet the special educational needs of
populations with limited English proficiency.
Educational Research and Improvement The Office of Educational Research
and Improvement provides national leadership in expanding fundamental
knowledge and improving the quality of education. It is responsible for
conducting and supporting education-related research activities;
monitoring the state of education through the collection and analysis of
statistical data; promoting the use and application of research and
development to improve instructional practices in the classroom; and
disseminating these findings to States and local education entities.
Elementary and Secondary Education The Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education formulates policy for, directs, and coordinates the
Department's activities relating to preschool, elementary, and secondary
education. Included are grants and contracts to State educational
agencies and local school districts, postsecondary schools, and
nonprofit organizations for State and local reform, compensatory,
migrant, and Indian education; drug-free schools; other school
improvement programs; and impact aid.
Postsecondary Education The Office of Postsecondary Education
formulates policy and directs and coordinates programs for assistance to
postsecondary educational institutions and students pursuing a
postsecondary education. Programs include assistance for the improvement
and expansion of American educational resources for international
studies and services, grants to improve instruction in crucial academic
subjects, and construction assistance for academic facilities.
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services The Office of Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) provides leadership to
ensure that people with disabilities have services, resources, and equal
opportunities to learn, work, and live as fully integrated, contributing
members of society. OSERS supports programs that serve millions of
disabled children, youth, and adults. It coordinates the activities of
the Office of Special Education Programs, which works to help States
provide quality educational opportunities and early-intervention
services to help students with disabilities achieve their goals. OSERS
supports State vocational rehabilitation programs that give disabled
people the education, job training, and job placement services they need
to gain meaningful employment. It supports research and technological
programs that are crafting blueprints for a barrier-free, inclusive
society.
Student Financial Assistance The Office of Student Financial Assistance
(SFA) directs and coordinates activities of the Department of Education
to provide financial assistance through grants and work and loan
programs to students pursuing a postsecondary education. The Federal
student financial aid programs include: Stafford loans; parent loans for
undergraduate students; supplemental loans for students; Federal insured
student loans; consolidated loans; Perkins loans; income contingent
loans; Pell grants; the College Work-Study Program; supplemental
educational opportunities grants; and State student incentive grants.
SFA also works to improve credit management and debt collection through
the collection of defaulted student loans under the Guaranteed Student
Loan Program and the Law Enforcement Education Program, and the
collection of overpayments in the Pell Grant Program and Supplemental
Educational Opportunities Grant Program.
Vocational and Adult Education The Office of Vocational and Adult
Education administers grant, contract, and technical assistance programs
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vocational-technical education and for adult education and literacy.
Regional Offices Each regional office serves as a center for the
dissemination of information and provides technical assistance to State
and local educational agencies and other institutions and individuals
interested in Federal education activities. Offices are located in
Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Kansas
City, MO; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; and
Seattle, WA.
Federally Aided Corporations
American Printing House for the Blind
P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206
Phone, 502-895-2405
President Tuck Tinsley
Chairman of the Board John Barr III
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The American Printing House for the Blind was incorporated by the
Kentucky Legislature in 1858 to assist in the education of the blind by
distributing Braille books, talking books, and educational aids without
cost to educational institutions educating blind children.
For further information, contact the American Printing House for the
Blind, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206. Phone, 502-895-2405.
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002
Phone, 202-651-5000. Internet, www.gallaudet.edu.
Chairman, Board of Trustees Glenn B. Anderson
President, Gallaudet University I. King Jordan
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The Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and
the Blind was incorporated by act of February 16, 1857 (11 Stat. 161).
The name of the institution was changed in 1865, 1911, 1954, and
eventually in 1986 to Gallaudet University. The University was
established to provide a liberal higher education for deaf persons who
need special facilities to compensate for their loss of hearing. The
primary purpose of the university is to afford its students the
intellectual and spiritual development that can be acquired through a
study of the liberal arts and sciences.
In addition to its undergraduate program, the University operates a
graduate program at the master's level to prepare teachers and other
professional personnel to work with persons who are deaf, a research
program focusing on problems related to deafness, and continuing
education for deaf adults.
Accreditation The University is accredited by the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the Council on Social Work
Education.
Model Secondary School for the Deaf The school was established by act
of October 15, 1966 (20 U.S.C. 693), to provide maximum flexibility in
curricula and to encourage the originality, imagination, and innovation
needed to
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satisfy deaf students' high aspirations. The school provides day and
residential facilities for deaf youth of high school age, in order to
prepare them for college or for postsecondary opportunities other than
college; prepares all students to the maximum extent possible to be
independent, contributing members of society; and stimulates the
development of similar programs throughout the Nation.
Kendall Demonstration Elementary School The School became the Nation's
first demonstration elementary school for the deaf by act of December
24, 1970 (20 U.S.C. 695), which authorized Gallaudet College to operate
and maintain it as a model that will experiment in techniques and
materials and to disseminate information from these and future projects
to educational facilities for deaf children throughout the country.
For further information, contact the Public Relations Office, Gallaudet
University, 800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002. Phone, 202-
651-5505. Internet, www.gallaudet.edu.
Howard University
2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC 20059
Phone, 202-806-6100. Internet, www.howard.edu.
President H. Patrick Swygert
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Howard University was established by act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat.
438). It offers instruction in 12 schools and colleges: the colleges of
arts and sciences; dentistry; engineering, architecture, and computer
sciences; medicine; and pharmacy, nursing, and allied health sciences;
the graduate school of arts and sciences; the schools of business;
communications; divinity; education; law; and social work; and a summer
school. In addition, Howard University has research institutes, centers,
and special programs in the following areas: disability and
socioeconomic policy studies; terrestrial and extraterrestrial
atmospheric studies; aerospace science and technology; materials science
research; the New York African burial ground project; speech and
hearing; vitiligo; drug abuse and addiction; science, space, and
technology; African-American resources; cancer; child development;
computational science and engineering; international affairs; sickle
cell disease; and small business development.
For further information, contact the Office of University
Communications, Howard University, 2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC
20059. Phone, 202-806-0970. Internet, www.howard.edu.
National Institute for Literacy
Suite 730, 1775 I Street NW., Washington, DC 20006
Phone, 202-632-1500
Director Andrew Hartman
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The National Institute for Literacy leads the national effort towards a
fully literate America. By building and strengthening national,
regional, and State literacy infrastructures, the Institute fosters
collaboration and innovation. Its goal is to ensure that all Americans
with literacy needs receive the high-quality education
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and basic skills services necessary to achieve success in the workplace,
family, and community.
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Rochester Institute of Technology
52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623
Phone, 716-475-6853 (voice/TDD)
President, Rochester Institute of Technology Albert J. Simone
Dean, National Technical Institute for the Deaf T. Alan Hurwitz
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The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) was established by
act of June 8, 1965 (20 U.S.C. 681). It is an integral part of a larger
institution known as the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The
presence of NTID at RIT is the first effort to educate large numbers of
deaf students within a college campus planned primarily for hearing
students. It provides educational opportunities for qualified students
from every State in the Nation and, through educational outreach,
publications, and related services, serves deaf persons throughout the
world. In addition, NTID conducts research to better understand the role
of deafness in education and employment, and to develop innovative
teaching techniques. It develops training activities for its faculty and
staff, as well as for other professionals working with deaf persons
across the country.
Both Institutes are accredited by the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools. Rochester Institute of Technology also
has been accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional
Development, National Association of Schools of Art, Committee on
Professional Training of American Chemical Society, Council on Social
Work Education, and the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical
Laboratory Sciences.
For further information, contact the Rochester Institute of Technology,
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Department of Recruitment and
Admissions, Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive,
Rochester, NY 14623-5604. Phone, 716-475-6700.
Sources of Information
Inquiries on the following information may be directed to the specified
office, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC
20202.
Contracts and Small Business Activities Call or write the Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Phone, 202-708-9820.
Employment Inquiries and applications for employment, and inquiries
regarding the college recruitment program, should be directed to the
Human Resources Group. Phone, 202-401-0553.
Organization Contact the Executive Office, Office of Management. Phone,
202-401-0690. TDD, 202-260-8956.
For further information, contact the Information Resources Center,
Department of Education, Room 5E248 (FB-6), 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20202. Phone, 800-USA-LEARN. Internet, www.ed.gov.