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Snow Hill Middle School Career Day - Friday, May 18, 2012: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
DEF participates in the Snow Hill Middle School Career Day, providing information on exploring careers, preparing for college, financial aid, and scholarships.
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Snow Hill Middle School Career Day - Friday, May 18, 2012: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
DEF staff will set up an information table about choosing a career and career readiness for students at the Snow Hill Middle School Career Day in Snow Hill, MD.
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MEMORANDUM
| To: |
DEF Board of Directors |
| From: |
Donald Harting, Executive Director
Sharon Clark, Assistant Director for Rural Education
Research and Policy |
| Subject: |
“Symposium on Rural Education Research and Policy Issues” Results and Proceedings |
| Date: |
August 13, 2003 |
Enclosed herewith are the proceedings from the “Symposium on Rural Education: Research and Policy Issues” that DEF held on June 25, 2003 . We received some good direction from our recent symposium and summarize here the participants' advice as to further activities of DEF that would be helpful to our community.
- As to whether or not it is possible (meaningful) to approach problems from the regional vantage point that we have suggested, the answer was, “Probably. Pick something and let's see how it works.”
- The remarks of Nancy Jennings from Bowdoin College in Maine regarding “place-based” education sparked a lot of discussion. It would be helpful and appreciated if we could make available to our education community more information about “place-based” education.
- Robert Gibbs (USDA) emphasized that the best predictor of education attainment for the student is the attainment of the parents, and we have many parents with minimal education, particularly in our minority and immigrant populations. The perception was that a lack of understanding of the value of education is not limited to our minority and immigrant parents. We were advised that anything that we could do to help sell the value of education generally to our people is greatly needed.
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