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Monday, June 22, 2009
Gates Foundation announced $16.5 million in grants to boost comm. college graduation rates
Today, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MDC, Inc. announced $16.5 million in grants to 15 community colleges and five states to expand groundbreaking remedial education programs that experts say are key to dramatically boosting the college completion rates of low-income students and students of color.
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A recent report from Jobs for the Future found that that nearly 60 percent of students enrolling in the nation’s community colleges must take remedial classes to build their basic academic skills. For low-income students and students of color, the figure topped 90 percent at some colleges. Remedial classes cost taxpayers more than $2 billion a year, money that is mostly wasted as few students even complete the classes, let alone continue on to graduate.
The grants announced today will fund the Developmental Education Initiative, which will build upon the most promising programs developed through Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multi-year national initiative to boost graduation rates at community colleges, particularly among low-income students and students of color. The remedial education models developed by the 15 community colleges receiving these grants represent some of the most promising work in the country aimed at boosting college completion rates among struggling students.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Swearing-in of Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Secretary Clinton swears in Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer.
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Hillary at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks prior to her meeting with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom at the State Department.
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2009 World Food Prize Announcement Ceremony
Secretary Clinton delivers the keynote address at 2009 World Food Prize Announcement Ceremony in the Benjamin Franklin Room.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Hillary in Pictures
Secretary Clinton At the Foreign Press Center
Secretary Clinton With Latvian President Valdis Zatlers
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You Can Text Your Disaster Relief Donation for Pakistan
Hillary "Now, Americans can use technology to help, as well. Using your cell phones, Americans can text the word 'swat' -- to the number 20222 and make a $5 contribution that will help the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees provide tents, clothing, food, and medicine to hundreds of thousands of affected people. And before I came over here, we did that in the State Department. So we are making some of the first donations to this fund."
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Entire 2009 NYU Commencement Address
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton provides remarks during the 2009 New York University commencement ceremony in New York
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Hillary Gives Commencement Speech at NYU
Clinton, however, who urged the hopeful grads to look at the global economic crisis not as an excuse, but as an opportunity to make the world a better place."This is your moment," Clinton said from a stage set up atop second base. "You have made it to the big leagues and you are up to bat."
The former first lady beseeched the 6,000 grads to become "citizen diplomats" in a world increasingly bound together by technology and common economic interests.
"My message to you today is this: be the special envoy of your ideals," Clinton said. "By creating your own networks, you can extend the power of governments to meet the needs of this and future generations."
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Hillary Clinton beats Obama in job approval ratings
Washington, May. 4 : After finishing 100 days in the office, US Secretary of state Hilary Clinton has trumped President Barack Obama in job approval ratings.
A recent polls shows Clinton having an approval rating of 71 percent, while the the President has a 65 percent approval rating.
"She's acting like a statesman and diplomat and representing her President instead of herself. She hasn't gone off on her own as many predicted. It's been very rehabilitating for her image," said a prominent Democrat on the former presidential candidate.
The Daily News quotes experts as saying that her former president husband, Bill Clinton, has helped in revamping her image.
Hillary also has labored to smooth over lingering rifts from the campaign with Obama and his inner circle, most notably First Lady Michelle Obama.
Declaring a truce at Foggy Bottom in March, Obama joked about her refusal during the campaign to mention Clinton's name, calling her "the other candidate." With a grin, Obama said, "Let me thank Secretary Clinton - I love saying that!"
Former National Security Council member Elliott Abrams opines that Obama has absorbed much of the foreign policy flak that would have gone Clinton's way.
Obama has piled the diplomatic plate high for Clinton, tasking her with risky openings to Iran and Cuba, while getting North Korea to disarm, putting down the Taliban threat in Pakistan and bringing the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations.
Clinton said she would give priority to "acknowledging our own errors where we have made them, which will serve as an example to others to do the same."
"Clinton is using her political talents in the building. Morale is good. And she's playing well with others. Unlike former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, who was barely civil to Bush Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice," said Abrams.
Even Republicans are lauding the new and improved Hilary Clinton.
"It's nice to see the relationship the two of you have built...and I'm very pleased with what you're doing," Senator George Voinovich told Clinton and Gates. (From the ANI)
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A recent polls shows Clinton having an approval rating of 71 percent, while the the President has a 65 percent approval rating.
"She's acting like a statesman and diplomat and representing her President instead of herself. She hasn't gone off on her own as many predicted. It's been very rehabilitating for her image," said a prominent Democrat on the former presidential candidate.
The Daily News quotes experts as saying that her former president husband, Bill Clinton, has helped in revamping her image.
Hillary also has labored to smooth over lingering rifts from the campaign with Obama and his inner circle, most notably First Lady Michelle Obama.
Declaring a truce at Foggy Bottom in March, Obama joked about her refusal during the campaign to mention Clinton's name, calling her "the other candidate." With a grin, Obama said, "Let me thank Secretary Clinton - I love saying that!"
Former National Security Council member Elliott Abrams opines that Obama has absorbed much of the foreign policy flak that would have gone Clinton's way.
Obama has piled the diplomatic plate high for Clinton, tasking her with risky openings to Iran and Cuba, while getting North Korea to disarm, putting down the Taliban threat in Pakistan and bringing the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations.
Clinton said she would give priority to "acknowledging our own errors where we have made them, which will serve as an example to others to do the same."
"Clinton is using her political talents in the building. Morale is good. And she's playing well with others. Unlike former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, who was barely civil to Bush Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice," said Abrams.
Even Republicans are lauding the new and improved Hilary Clinton.
"It's nice to see the relationship the two of you have built...and I'm very pleased with what you're doing," Senator George Voinovich told Clinton and Gates. (From the ANI)
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