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California history professor wins NEA
Foundation for the Improvement of Education award for work with middle-schoolers.
The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education
has chosen Arnold Kaminsky, a history
professor at California State University, Long Beach, as the recipient
of the 2000 William G. Carr Award.
The Carr Award is presented annually to a Foundation
grantee who has advanced international understanding through teaching
and learning. Professor Kaminsky has worked with 12 middle schools in
Long Beach to improve the teaching of Southeast Asian history.
After examining state and district content standards
for social science and history, Kaminsky helped determine how Southeast
Asian history might be integrated into the district's existing curriculum.
Particularly noteworthy have been his efforts
to address the cultural diversity of Long Beach's students—25 percent
of whom are of Southeast Asian origin—and to promote substantive
collaboration between university faculty and K-12 teachers.
The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education
is offering $1,000 leadership grants to educators at all levels, including
public higher education faculty and staff, to engage in high-quality professional
development. Proposals must reflect student learning needs and collegial
leadership. Activities may include research or new instructional approaches.
The application deadline is October 15, 2000.
Grants will be awarded by February 28, 2001. Descriptions of successful
proposals, complete guidelines, and application forms are available at
www.nfie.org.
 Hundreds of NEA members set out this summer for the Democratic and
Republican conventions, with the intention of helping their fellow
delegates better understand what public education needs to succeed.
Over 40 NEA members were delegates or alternates
to the July Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.
More than 350 NEA members took the quality public
education message to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
NEA delegates to the Democratic Party convention
saw NEA President Bob Chase, in a prime-time address, contrast progress
in education at the national level with the education record in Texas
under Governor George W. Bush.
"In the state of Texas, the dropout and attrition
rate is nearly 50 percent for Black and Hispanic students," Chase
pointed out. "Those dropout and attrition rates make a mockery of
the slogan 'leave no child behind.' "
Visit www.nea.org/election00 to read Bob Chase's
speech and get other convention and campaign news.
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