ADE Briefs

This just in from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education: As students around Arkansas await word on their status regarding the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship, the Arkansas Department of Higher Education announced today that it has notified 9,105 students across the state that they have been awarded the scholarship. All the students were notified by [...]

This opportunity for students to win grant money to develop ways to keep their peers in school through graduation just crossed our desk at ADE. The June 11 deadline is quickly approaching, but we wanted to make it known to schools and students anyway: America’s Promise and sponsor AT&T Arkansas are looking for grant applications [...]

You can now check out Dr. Kimbrell’s latest video message in which he gives an update on Race to the Top and talks about the latest big grant the Arkansas Department of Education has won.

The Harrison School District has been selected as this year’s winner of the 2010 Arkansas Healthy School Board Diamond Award. Other winners are the El Dorado School District, which came in second to win the Gold Award, and Gurdon School District in third place with the Silver Award. The schools will be presented a Healthy [...]

The Arkansas Department of Education learned today that it has been awarded a $9.8 million grant for the design and implementation of a statewide longitudinal data system. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Arkansas was one of 20 states to receive one of the grants, which was funded through the American Recovery [...]

Vandy Nash, 2010 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, was in Washington, D.C., recently with all of the state Teachers of the Year for a series of events leading up to the naming of the National Teacher of the Year by President Obama. (A high school teacher from Iowa won that title.) While there, among the [...]

In front of an overflowing ballroom in Santa Monica, Cal., on Saturday evening, Arkansas math teacher Telisa D. Hadley was honored with a $25,000 Milken Educator Award during an inspiring awards dinner and ceremony. The event has been hailed as the “Oscars of Teaching” by Teacher Magazine. Hadley first learned that she won the honor [...]

Did you know Arkansas will have a site on ITunes U? We will! In fact, we’re one of the first states to take part in this opportunity. This growing, online resource results from a collaboration between the Arkansas Department of Education and Apple and promises to be a great addition for Arkanasas educators, students and [...]

Arkansas Children’s Hospital, in partnership with the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission and the Arkansas Coordinated School Health Program, announced this week that HealthTeacher will be the health education curriculum for the 56 schools chosen for the Child Wellness Intervention Project (CWIP) grant. Over 12,000 kindergarten through twelfth grade students, across 28 Arkansas school districts, will [...]

The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts’ Office of Distance Education Department of Foreign Languages recently received an International Distance Learning Award, which was presented during the 2010 National Conference in St. Louis by the U.S. Distance Learning Association. In a release from the organization, CEO Dr. John G. Flores said, “The Office [...]