President Clinton's Call to Action

Partners' Activity Kit 1997

Co-chairs and Steering Committee members

Tell us what you're doing!

1-800-USA-LEARN

Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education invite you and your organization to play a leading role in the third annual 1997 America Goes Back to School initiative. This exciting and important effort focuses attention on improving education across America during the back-to-school time of August through October. The initiative is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education; the thousands of family, education, employer, religious and community group members of the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education; and the America Goes Back to School Steering Committee, including co-chairs Tipper Gore, actor Michael Keaton, National PTA President Lois Jean White, and Thomas Kean, President of Drew University and former Governor of New Jersey.

AMERICA GOES BACK TO SCHOOL encourages parents, grandparents, community leaders, employers and employees, members of the arts community, religious leaders, and every caring adult to play a more active role in improving education in their communities.

We invite you to choose one or several of the issues listed in President Clinton's Call to Action for American Education to highlight in your community. You can work with your local schools, colleges, and community, religious, and employer groups to plan activities that will focus on one or more of these areas. We join the many local schools who invite you to visit via their local WWW sites.

Innovative and exciting ideas about how you can get involved in America Goes Back to School:

Partners' Activity Kit 1997. Here you will find suggestions on how to hold an America Goes Back to School event as well as resources and examples of places working to answer President Clinton's Call to Action. It is also available in Portable Document Format (426KB) for those with appropriate .pdf readers.

For a hard copy of the Partners' Activity Kit call 1-800-USA-LEARN.

Tips and examples from previous America Goes Back to School efforts:

Partners' Activity Kit 1996. It is also available in Portable Document Format (735K ) for those with appropriate .pdf readers.

Partners' Activity Kit 1995. It is also available in Portable Document Format (159K) for those with appropriate .pdf re aders.

We want to hear what you are doing! Tell us about your America Goes Back to School Event!

Satellite Town Meeting -- Back to School: Bringing the Community Together for Learning

NASA joins the Department of Education in supporting the 1997 America Goes Back to School initiative & is offering 10 one-hour "web chats with NASA experts" for students and teachers during the last week of September (beginning Monday, September 29, 1997).

Other helpful resources with information about initiatives relating to family and community involvement in education:

Keeping Schools Open

Reaching All Families: Creating Family-Friendly Schools

Strong Families, Strong Schools

Getting Ready for College Early

Preparing Your Child for College

America Reads Challenge, to help all children read independently by the end of 3^rd grade

Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS)

Voluntary National Tests in 4^th grade and 8^th grade mathematics

America's HOPE Scholarship Proposal, to help all students be prepared for and afford at least two years of college, and to pursue lifelong learning

The U.S. Department of Education's Teachers Web Page, where you will find information on attracting and preparing teachers, guides for teachers, teacher leadership, research and studies, ERIC Digests, and other resources.

Safe & Drug Free Schools Program

US Charter Schools

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