US unveils new education initiative
Saturday February 25, 2012 08:17:59 AM,
IANS
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Washington: The US
government Friday announced a new initiative designed to spur
community engagement in turning around persistently low-performing
schools.
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the initiative,
dubbed "Together for Tomorrow", during a town hall meeting at
Memorial Middle School in Orlando, Florida, Xinhua reported.
"Community and family involvement can be the make or break factor
in successfully turning around low-performing schools," he said.
"Together for Tomorrow will provide real-life examples of how to
effectively transform our struggling schools, and build a
community-to-community support system that can help take this
critical work to scale."
The initiative will focus on community and family partnerships in
boosting key measurable student outcomes -- attendance, behaviour,
course performance, and college access, the ABCs of improving
low-performing schools, according to the White House.
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Main entrance of Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University
(AMU).
AMU PRO Dr Rahat Abrar says,
library has a remarkable attendance of women students who
come, sit and access research oriented resources of the
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