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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 Roderick R. Paige
Chief of Staff John Danielson
Director, Office of Public Affairs Dan Langan, Acting
General Counsel Brian W. Jones
Inspector General Lorraine Lewis
Deputy Secretary William D. Hansen
Assistant Secretary for Becky Campoverde
Legislation and
Congressional Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Laurie M. Rich
Intergovernmental and
Interagency Affairs
Chief Financial Officer Jack Martin
Chief Information Officer Craig Luigart
Assistant Secretary for William Leidinger
Management
Under Secretary Eugene Hickok
Assistant Secretary for Civil C. Todd Jones
Rights
Assistant Secretary for Grover J. Whitehurst
Educational Research and
Improvement
Assistant Secretary for Susan B. Neuman
Elementary and Secondary
Education
Assistant Secretary for Sally Stoup
Postsecondary Education
Assistant Secretary for Special Robert H. Pasternack
Education and
Rehabilitative Services
Assistant Secretary for Carol D'Amico
Vocational and Adult
Education
Chief Operating Officer for Greg Woods
Federal Student Aid
Director, Office of English Marina Tse
Language Acquisition,
Language Enhancement,
and Academic Achievement
for Limited English
Proficient Students
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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.
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
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education and promoting educational excellence throughout the Nation.
Activities
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; the education of
disadvantaged, migrant, and Indian children; drug and violence
prevention programs and programs that promote the health and well-being
of children; impact aid; and after-school learning programs. The Office
also focuses on providing children with the readiness skills and support
they need in early childhood so they can learn to read once they enter
school; improving the instructional practices of teachers and other
instructional staff in elementary schools; and reducing class size.
English Language Acquisition The Officeof English Language Acquisition,
Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English
Proficient Students provides national leadership in promoting high-
quality education for the Nation's population of English language
learners.
Federal Student Aid The Office of Student Financial Assistance (FSA)
provides 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.
FSA 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.
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
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programs that are crafting blueprints for a barrier-free, inclusive
society.
Vocational and Adult Education The Office of Vocational and Adult
Education administers grant, contract, and technical assistance programs
for 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. Internet, www.aph.org.
President Tuck Tinsley III
Chairman of the Board Joseph A. Taradis III
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The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) produces and distributes
educational materials adapted for students who are legally blind and
enrolled in formal educational programs below the college level.
Materials produced by APH include textbooks in braille and large type,
educational tools such as braille typewriters and microcomputer software
and hardware, teaching aides such as tests and performance measures, and
other special supplies. The materials are distributed to programs
serving individuals who are blind through allotments to the States.
For further information, contact the American Printing House for the
Blind, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206. Phone, 502-895-2405.
Internet, www.aph.org.
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002
Phone, 202-651-5000. Internet, www.gallaudet.edu.
President, Gallaudet University I. King Jordan
Chairman, Board of Trustees Glenn B. Anderson
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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. Gallaudet is a private,
nonprofit education institution providing elementary, secondary,
undergraduate, and continuing education programs for persons who are
deaf. The University offers a traditional liberal arts curriculum for
students who are deaf and graduate programs in fields related to
deafness for students who are deaf and students who are hearing.
Gallaudet also conducts a wide variety of basic and applied deafness
research and provides public service programs for persons who are deaf
and professionals who work with persons who are deaf.
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Gallaudet University is accredited by a number of accrediting
bodies, among which are the Middle States Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, the National Council for Accredation of Teacher
Education, and the Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools
and Programs for the Deaf.
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center Gallaudet's Laurent Clerc
National Deaf Education Center operates two Federally funded elementary
and secondary education programs on the main campus of the University,
the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and the Model Secondary
School for the Deaf. These programs are authorized by the Eduction of
the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4304, as amended October 7, 1998) for
the primary purpose of developing, evaluating, and disseminating model
curricula, instructional techniques and strategies, and materials that
can be used in a variety of educational environments serving individuals
who are deaf and individuals who are hard of hearing throughout the
Nation. The Education of the Deaf Act requires the programs to include
students preparing for postsecondary opportunities other than college
and students with a broad spectrum of needs, such as students who are
lower achieving academically, come from non-English speaking homes, have
secondary disabilities, are members of minority groups, or are from
rural areas.
Model Secondary School for the Deaf The school was established by act
of October 15, 1966 (20 U.S.C. 693), which was superseded by the
Education of the Deaf Act of 1986. The school provides day and
residential facilities for secondary aged students from across the
United States from grades 9 through 12, inclusive.
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). This act was superseded by the Education of
the Deaf Act of 1986. The school is a day program serving students from
the Washington, DC, metropolitan area from the age of onset of deafness
to age 15, inclusive, but not beyond the eighth grade or its equivalent.
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; 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; the W. Montague Cobb Human Skeletons Collection; drug
abuse; science, space, and technology; African-American resources;
cancer; child development; computational science and engineering;
international
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affairs; sickle cell disease; and the national human genome project.
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, 202-233-2025
Director Sandra L. Baxter,
Acting
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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 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). Internet, www.ntid.edu.
President, Rochester Institute of Technology Albert J. Simone
Vice President, National Technical Institute for Robert R. Davila
the Deaf
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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) to promote the employment of persons
who are deaf by providing technical and professional education. The
National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act was superseded by the
Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4431, as amended October 7,
1998). The Department of Education maintains a contract with the
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for the operation of a
residential facility for postsecondary technical training and education
for individuals who are deaf. The purpose of the special relationship
with the host institution is to provide NTID and its students access to
more facilities, institutional services, and career preparation options
than could be otherwise provided by a national technical institute for
the deaf standing alone.
NTID offers a variety of technical programs at the certificate,
diploma, and associate degree levels. Degree programs include majors in
business, engineering, science, and visual communications. In addition,
NTID students may participate in approximately 200 educational programs
available through the Rochester Institute of Technology. Students who
are deaf that enroll in NTID or RIT programs are provided a
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wide range of support services and special programs to assist them in
preparing for their careers, including tutoring, counseling, notetaking,
interpreting, specialized educational media, cooperative work
experience, and specialized job placement. Both RIT and NTID are
accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools.
NTID also conducts applied research in occupational and employment-
related aspects of deafness, communication assessment, the demographics
of NTID's target population, and learning processes in postsecondary
education. In addition, NTID conducts training workshops and seminars
related to deafness. These workshops and seminars are offered to
professionals throughout the Nation who employ, work with, teach, or
otherwise serve persons who are deaf.
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. Internet, www.ntid.edu.
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.