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Abraham Lincoln Filene

Filene had a keen interest in educational issues and served as a member of the Executive Board of the National Committee for the Department of Education.

American Society of Health Informatics Managers

ASHIM is a non-profit, non-governmental organization formed in 2009, in response to data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Department of Education, and independent studies that indicated a 2009-2015 shortfall of approximately 51,000 qualified Health IT workers required to meet the needs of hospitals and physicians as they move to adopt electronic health care systems.

Anthony Valletta

He was a headmaster at three state schools, Luqa, Għaxaq and B'kara and later an inspector of government schools for the Department of Education.

California Department of Education Headquarters

Designed by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA of Fentress Architects, the CDEH/Block 225 consolidated the headquarters of the Department of Education, which formerly occupied several facilities located throughout Sacramento.

Commissioner of Education

Although the Assistant Secretary of Education then became the highest federal education position, the office of Commissioner of Education continued to exist in the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare until 1980, when the post was phased out due to the creation of the Cabinet-level Department of Education.

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

Zobel has been a consistent top performer in academic contests such the Metrobank-Mathematics Teachers Association of the Philippines-Department of Education Math Challenge, the Discovery Channel Whiz Quiz Contest, numerous AMA Computer University Information Technology Contests, and the Inter-school Computer Science QuizBits Contest of the Philippine Science High School, among others.

Georgia Lee Lusk

She also supported establishment of a cabinet-level Department of Education.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

The Navy is also transferring property at the shipyard to other government agencies such as Fish and Wildlife Service refuge, a Forest Service office building, an Army Reserve Center, a Coast Guard communications facility, and a Department of Education school.

Pinnacle Career Institute

The school participates in Title IV funding through the Department of Education and administers the Pell Grant, Student Educational Opportunity Grant, and Federal Stafford and PLUS Loan programs.

Quezon City Science High School

Tonisito M.C. Umali, Assistant Secretary for Legal and Legislative Affairs of the Department of Education

Rebecca Walker

In her article, Walker criticizes the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after he was accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill, an attorney he supervised during his time at the Department of Education and the EEOC.

Roy Boudreau

He served in the opposition shadow cabinet at various times as critic for Department of Tourism and Parks, the Culture and Sport Secretariat, the anglophone section of the Department of Education and the Department of Family and Community Services.


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Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs

In June 1994, a U.S. Department of Education Advisory Committee recommended withdrawal of recognition for the ACBSP due to a determination that ACBSP accreditation would not be a "required element" in making an institution eligible to participate in U.S. federal government programs under the Higher Education Act or other authorities.

Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies

Degrees awarded by the Department of Education are Master of Arts in Education (M.A.) with emphases in Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Administration, Instructional Technology, Leadership, Library Administration, Religious Education, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL; Master of Arts (M.A.) in Teaching, Education Specialist (EdS), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Education, with emphases in Curriculum & Instruction and Educational Administration.

Albert Blaustein

From 1959 until 1968 Blaustein worked in the London School of Economics, the Constitution Associates foreign advisory board and the US Department of Education and the US Commission on Civil Rights from 1962 - 1963.

Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth

DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française) and DALF (Diplôme approfondi de langue française) are official qualifications delivered by the French Department of Education to certify competencies of non-French native speakers in the French language.

Assembly of God Church School

The school is organized by The Assembly of God Church of East India, which is a registered Society under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961, is recognized by the Department of Education, Government of West Bengal and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi

Bel Air Middle School

The school has been recognized by the Maryland State Department of Education for its long-term participation and success in the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance's Hoops for Heart program, in which it has raised more than $200,000 during the past decade, the second-most in the country during that period.

Business studies

The Governmental Department of Education allow for children to write NSC Examinations; this Board is the most widely used in South Africa.

Carolyn Hirsh

Hirsh worked as a psychologist for the Victorian Department of Education from 1980 to 1985, when she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Wantirna.

David Stenhouse

After taking degrees in both Philosophy (under John Passmore) and Zoology at the University of Otago, he lectured at Universities in New Zealand and Australia - in the Department of Zoology at The University of Queensland, the Department of Education at Massey University, and the Department of Psychology at Massey University.

Dean L. Hubbard

In 1988 Hubbard resolved a crisis when the Missouri Department of Education under John Ashcroft proposed closing Northwest and designating Missouri Western State University 40 miles south in St. Joseph, Missouri being the only state university in northwest Missouri.

Éric Mercier

Mercier was Divisional Officer at Department of Education at the Naval Unit HMCS Montcalm in Quebec in 2002 and 2003.

Eugene C. Brooks

He was named head of the Department of Education at Trinity College in 1907, where he served until 1919 when he was appointed state superintendent of public instruction by Governor Thomas Walter Bickett.

George Lamming

He entered academia in 1967 as a writer-in-residence and lecturer in the Creative Arts Centre and Department of Education at the University of the West Indies, Kingston (1967–68).

IBM 1500

Seeded by a research grant in 1964 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the IBM 1500 CAI system was initially prototyped at the Brentwood Elementary School (Ravenswood City School District) in East Palo Alto, California by Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University.

Innovation Diploma Plus High School

Former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, who runs Success Academy Charter Schools, opposed the proposal because she believed that "the Department of Education will undermine the education of at-risk students.

Jack Hoogendyk

In 2006 Hoogendyk was one of a small group of conservatives to lead the fight against legislation to mandate that the state Department of Education administer to all sixth grade girls the vaccine Gardasil as a potential prevention against the risk of Human papillomavirus.

Jesús Sánchez

Jesús Rivera Sánchez, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education, 2010–2011

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra

He has also been deputy of the Assembly for Badajoz, General Secretary of PSOE of Extremadura, Executive Secretary of the Executive Federal Commission of the PSOE and teacher in commission of services for political matters of the Department of Hispanic Philology of the University of Extremadura in the Department of Education of Badajoz.

June Goodfield

She was consultant at Harvard University's Department of Education (1960-65), Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Wellesley College (1966-69), Professor of Human Medicine and Philosophy at Michigan State University (1969-78), Senior Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University (1977-82), and Robinson Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

2000 Judith A. Winston, Under Secretary and General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education; former Director, President Clinton's initiative on race

Mimosa Public School

The renaming committee also had advised that the school would no longer be called "Sorlie", but had difficulty deciding upon a new name after previous suggestions, "Blackbutts" and "Mimosa" were rejected by the Department of Education.

O'Connor's Landing

A west dining room was added after the Department of Education from Columbus, Ohio needed a place for meetings.

Prairie View Interscholastic League

The Texas Interscholastic League of Colored Schools (TILCS) was formed in 1920 by the Colored Teachers State Association of Texas and the Negro School Division of the State Department of Education.

Raymond Cattell

While working on his Ph.D., Cattell accepted a position teaching and counseling in the Department of Education at Exeter University.

Republic of China presidential election, 2008

On March 16, 2008, standing for DPP candidate Frank Hsieh at a rally in Taichung, Chuang Kuo-jung, a deputy secretary for the Department of Education, called Ma Ying-jeou a "chicken" and further insulted his father and family.

Samsara Foundation

They work in close collaboration with the Department of Education in Mae Sariang District and with the directors of the schools involved.

Somers School Camp

The Somers School Camp is a Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development school camp in Somers, Victoria, Australia.

St. Leo the Great School, San Jose

1985 - The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary turned over school administration to the lay staff of the Diocese of San Jose's department of education.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy

Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten spurred an inquiry into TiZA by the Minnesota Department of Education after her column suggested the school had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution by teaching religion in the schools.

Title 6

Title VI, Part A, § 602 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (National Resource Center Program of the U.S. Department of Education)

Tsering Wangchuk

He received a fellowship from the Department of Education to study in Warsaw, Poland, where he became Doctor in Medicine, and spent two years of internship at Hospital of Medical University of Warsaw.

University of the Western Lands

University of the Western Lands was established in October 1940 as an initiative of the Department of Education of the Polish Underground State.

Westinghouse High School

George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, New York City Department of Education, Brooklyn, New York

Westminster College, Oxford

Following the move, the college's qualifications were validated by the University of Oxford through its Institute of Education and, later, its Department of Education.

William D. Hansen

Between 1991 and 1993, Hansen served in the administration of President George H. W. Bush as Assistant Secretary of Education for Management and Budget, the chief financial officer for the U.S. Department of Education.

William M. Hadley

Through the State Department of Education he was recommended for and received a full fellowship by the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation to Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, New York in the fall of 1949.