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Parent Guide: Lemonade in Winter
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money” by Emily Jenkins.
Parent Guide: Lemonade in Winter
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money” by Emily Jenkins.
Parent Guide: My Rows and Piles of Coins
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “My Rows and Piles of Coins” by Tololwa M. Mollel.
Parent Guide: The Berenstein Bears and Mama's New Job
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Berenstain Bears & Mama’s New Job” by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
Parent Guide: The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Berenstain Bears’ Trouble with Money” by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
Parent Guide: The Ox Cart Man
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “Ox-Cart Man” by Donald Hall.
Parent Guide: The Purse
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Purse” by Kathy Caple.
Parent Guide: The Rag Coat
This guide will help parents teach their child money management skills while reading “The Rag Coat” by Lauren Mills.
Teaching Financial Capability — Resources for Teachers
This website shares resources for teachers to incorporate financial education into their curriculum. It features a searchable database of more than 40 stand-alone classroom activities, a curriculum review tool to help educators evaluate materials, and effective strategies for incorporating the building blocks of financial capability into the classroom.
Program Evaluation: A Variety of Rigorous Methods Can Help Identify Effective Interventions
This GAO report describes how program evaluations can help identify effective interventions.
Report: Access to Federal Financial Assistance for Homeless and Foster Youth
This report highlights obstacles faced by homeless youth and youth who have been in foster care in securing financial aid for college. The report includes six recommendations to improve access to financial assistance for these youth, including centralizing college information and considering legislative proposals to simplify federal requirements.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Volunteers
Volunteers play an integral role in supporting the environmental stewardship conducted every day by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Across the United states and its coastal waters, opportunities exist for volunteers to take part in research, observation and educational roles that benefit science, our citizens and our planet.
Weather Alerts
Regular updates and alerts from the National Weather Service.
Public -Private Partnership Launches New AmeriCorps Program to Help Communities Build Resilience
CNCS, DOE, EPA, NOAA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Cities of Service announced a new commitment to launch the Resilience AmeriCorps pilot program. Resilience AmeriCorps will help communities plan and implement efforts necessary to become more resilient to shocks and stresses, including extreme weather and other impacts of climate change. AmeriCorps VISTA members will serve in up to 12 communities in 2015-2016 to support the development of resilience strategies.
Guidance: Raising Awareness on Specific Learning Disabilities
This guidance for state and local educational agencies clarifies that students with specific learning disabilities — such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia — have unique educational needs. The guidance also clarifies that there is nothing in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act prohibiting the use of the terms dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia in a student’s evaluation, determination of eligibility for special education and related services, or in developing the student’s individualized education program.
Resource: Improving Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities in Juvenile Corrections
This toolkit includes evidence- and research-based practices, tools, and resources that educators, families, facilities, and community agencies can use to better support and improve the long-term outcomes for youth with disabilities in juvenile correctional facilities. The toolkit focuses on four key areas identified as part of an OSEP-sponsored focus group series on juvenile corrections: facility-wide practices, educational practices, transition and re-entry practices, and community and interagency practices.
Share with Youth: A Transition Guide to Postsecondary Education and Employment for Students and Youth with Disabilities
This guide (PDF, 62 pages) aims to educate students and youth with disabilities and their families about the transition from school to post-school activities. It includes information about transition planning, transition services and requirements, and education and employment options.