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   <title>Vote on Videos</title>
   <link>http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/11/11162009a.html</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Help pick the winners for the "I Am What I Learn" video contest.  Watch these 10 videos and vote!]]></description>
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   <title>Race to the Top Begins</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Secretary Arne Duncan released the final application for more than $4 billion from the Race to the Top Fund.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title>State Fiscal Stabilization Fund</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Application requirements are now available for the final $11.5 billion under the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title>Economic Security and a 21st Century Education</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Education and Workforce Summit. ]]></description>
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   <title>Outstanding Principals Receive Bell Award</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Eight school principals who transformed their schools were given the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title>Race to the Top</title>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title>ED Recovery Funds for Pennsylvania</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[$1.4 billion in Recovery Funds are now available for Pennsylvania to save jobs and drive education reform.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title>ED Recovery Act Report</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Over $67 billion in ED Recovery Act formula grants have been awarded, and some 400,000 jobs have been saved or created through these ED grants.  ]]></description>
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   <title>Recovery Act: Over One Million Jobs</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Reports from recipients support estimates that overall the Recovery Act has created or saved over one million jobs to-date]]></description>
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   <title>State Standards Are Too Low</title>
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   <description><![CDATA["Far too many states are telling students that they are proficient when they actually are performing below the basic level" on the Nation's Report Card, Secretary Duncan said in response to a new report. ]]></description>
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   <title>Teacher Preparation: Reforming the Uncertain Profession</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Secretary Arne Duncan spoke at Columbia Teachers College about the need to improve teacher preparation across the U.S.]]></description>
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   <title>Math, Science Webcast: Watch, Comment</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Watch Secretary Duncan's presentation on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Oct. 23 at 10:45 am ET.   Share your comments during the webcast.]]></description>
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   <title>Advice on How to Improve Assessments</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[ED is holding public meetings with assessment experts to inform the development of the Race to the Top Assessment Competition.  States are invited to participate.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <title>250,000 Education Jobs</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[Preliminary data indicate that states will credit the Recovery Act with creating and saving at least 250,000 education jobs nationwide.]]></description>
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   <title>Teachers Are Key to Successful Economy</title>
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   <description><![CDATA[First Lady Michelle Obama writes about the importance of good teachers and the need for as many as one million new teachers by 2014. ]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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   <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:34:39 GMT</pubDate>
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