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The 2012 NAPE Professional
Development Institute is scheduled for April 16-19,
2012, at the Doubletree Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
Stay tuned for more details!
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NAPE and Career
Communications are accepting orders
for the 2011/12 American Careers Magazine, parent edition. Order
deadline is September 16th. Copies will be available in late
September.
Order Now!
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Resources
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The California
Career Academy Support Network website provides
many resources to help schools reach out to and work with employer
partners.
The
World Trade Center is an interactive website about
workers building the new World Trade Center, including a number of
tradeswomen.
The National
Women's History Museum has created a new online exhibit, A
History of Women in Industry.
How To
Find Data When You Need It: The Census Bureau's
American Community Survey is a great source of data on the population
in your school division and has much of the information you will need
for grant applications or program planning.
Strategies
for Engaging Immigrant and Refuge Families from
the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence
Prevention at Education Development Center, Inc.
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Save the Date
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Innovative
Educators Webinar: Reducing Barriers, Reducing
Risk: Increasing Access And Inclusion Of Students With Disabilities,
September 21, 3:00 PM ET
2011
Annual Careers in Cybersecurity Workshop for Counselors and STEM
Coordinators, September 27, 2011, Columbia,
MD
NGCP
Webcast: Making Programs More Inclusive and
Accessible for Youth with Disabilities,
September 28, 2011, 10:00 AM Pacific
ACTE
Webinar: CTE Advocacy in the New School Year,
October 4, 2011, 2:00 PM ET
STEM
Equity Pipeline Webinar: Race/Ethnicity
Matters When Recruiting and Retaining Undergraduate Women Engineers,
October 6, 2011, 12 PM ET
ACTE
Webinar: Why Industry Certifications Are
Important-A Case Study, october 26, 2011, 2:00 PM ET
CA
Joint Special Populations Advisory Committee Conference,
December 5-7, 2011, Sacramento, CA
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Disclaimer
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Any opinions,
findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the
material published in the NAPE Update are those of the author(s) and
do not necessarily reflect the views of NAPE.
Furthermore,inclusion of a product, program, or practicein the NAPE
Update does not imply its endorsement by NAPE.
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material found on NAPE's website or distributed via any other means
and created by the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
(NAPE) and/or the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
Education Foundation (NAPEEF) is copyrighted.
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Partnerships
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Dear NAPE Members,
I hope that the new school year has started with a great enthusiasm
and that your students are eager to learn and your colleagues are
looking forward to some great professional development offerings from
NAPE!
With that in mind, mark your calendars now for the NAPE Professional
Development Institute to be held April 16-19, 2012, in Arlington, VA.
As in the past, we will have nationally recognized keynote speakers
and a workshop agenda filled with relevant and practical strategies
for increasing access and success of special population students. The
STEM Equity Pipeline will conduct its annual leadership institute on
April 16, 2012, and will sponsor a workshop strand on strategies to
increase the participation and completion of women and girls in
STEM-related programs of study at the secondary and community college
levels. On April 18, 2011, you will have the chance to interact with
federal policymakers, legislators, and advocacy professionals on
Capitol Hill. Watch for the Request for Presentations to be released
next week, and submit a proposal to share the good work you are
doing!
The NAPE Executive Committee is meeting this week in Tulsa, OK, to
develop its Program of Work for 2012, which will be posted on the
NAPE website. We can accomplish so much more when everyone is
participating. Please answer the forthcoming call for committee
membership by volunteering to serve on a NAPE committee. As my Amish
neighbors say "Many hands make light work!"
Mimi
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President Obama Introduces American Jobs Act
On September 8, 2011, President Obama introduced the American Jobs
Act, designed to put more people back to work, including teachers,
first responders, and construction workers, and to put more money in
the pockets of working Americans. Find out more from the White
House website and read press releases from Wider
Opportunities for Women and the National
Women's Law Center .
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Technical School Training Subsidy Bill Summary from
ACTE
Rep. John Barrow introduced H.R.
2851 to create a pilot technical school training
subsidy program as part of the Workforce Investment Act. The
bill, which was also introduced last Congress, would authorize the
Department of Labor to create a pilot demonstration program under the
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) that grants those seeking career and
technical training up to $2,000 toward their education.
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House Committee Passes Women's History Museum Bill
On September 8, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
approved a bill (H.R. 2844) to authorize the conveyance of a parcel
of federal land near the national mall to National Women's History
Museum, Inc. for the purpose of establishing the National Women's
History Museum. Learn
More from Women's Policy,
Inc.
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House Committee Examines TANF Reauthorization
On September 8, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human
Resources held a hearing on the reauthorization of the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Learn
More from Women's Policy, Inc.
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Branding, Advertising, and Word-of-Mouth Help Recruit
Males to Health & Medical Sciences
This month's issue of the University of Virginia's Trailblazers
Magazine discusses how one teacher recruits male students to her
physical therapy program. Read
Article
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Women with Wrenches Jed
Lipinski, New York Times
On most days, Katlyn Hershman can be found smeared with grease,
plying her skills as a mechanic at Bike Works NYC, a shop on the
Lower East Side. When she answers the store phone, though, all that
toil and expertise can suddenly seem invisible. "Guys
automatically ask for the mechanic," she said. "But I don't
really take it personally." Ms. Hershman, 25, has a loyal
clientele of cyclists, both men and women. And she has the
satisfaction of being one of a small but growing number of New York
women making their mark in a trade that was a men-only preserve not
so long ago. Read
Article
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Opportunity Ripe for Online ELL Ed. Ian Quillen,
Education Week
Among special populations of students, English-language learners may
represent virtual learning's last frontier. With the dual challenges
of grasping a new language and keeping up with other academic
studies, ELLs would seem poised to benefit greatly from the prospect
of self-paced study, direct teacher correspondence without other
students observing, and an adaptive curriculum. Yet, such students
appear to represent one of the smallest slices of virtual student
enrollment, and they typically encounter online learning through
pathways that differ from the experiences of most online learners. Read
Article
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Lee College's Project LeeWay Provides Technical
Education to Low-Income Students, Single Parents The Ultimate
Baytown
The program provides students with six weeks of intensive training in
basic math, reading composition, study skills and computer skills.
Additional program components include career exploration and job
search assistance, as well as support services such as childcare,
textbook and transportation assistance, financial aid resource
identification and tutoring. Upon completing the program, a student
is eligible to enroll at Lee College. Read
Article
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Wal-Mart Announces Women-friendly Initiatives Andrea Chang,
Los Angeles Times
Discount giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced a multibillion-dollar
initiative to promote female workers and women-owned businesses as
part of an effort to improve its corporate image. The move came as
the nation's largest retailer continues to deal with accusations that
it doesn't have an equal workplace. The company may face individual
claims of sex discrimination after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a
class-action suit by female workers in June. Read
Article
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Education Has Greater Effect on Earnings than Race,
Gender Sarah
D. Sparks, Education Week
A worker's level of education has a greater effect on his or her
earnings over the course of a 40-year career than any other
demographic factor, including gender or race, according to a new
study released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The study comes
as policymakers revisit the importance of higher education at a time
of rising tuition and sinking job prospects for new graduates. Race
and gender still played a strong role in lifetime earnings, however. Read
Article and Read
Study
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Reducing Poverty and Increasing Marriage Rates Among
Latinos and African Americans Economic
Policy Institute
This new issue brief finds that African Americans have consistently
had the highest unemployment rates among the major racial groups-in
the past 50 years, and that the U.S. has never achieved full
employment for African Americans. Read
Brief
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Job Gap Between Women and Men Persists in August The Institute
for Women's Policy Research
This new research brief shows that the recession and job loss
have been both larger and longer lasting for men than for women, but
that the recovery for men has at least begun, while women's job
growth has so far failed to take hold. In fact, the job gap between
women and men has been growing, but stabilized in August. Read
Brief
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