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A Partner -- The U.S. Department of Education

No one has a recipe or roadmap. What works in your school will be different from what works in a school in another neighborhood. But we can all learn from each other.

Your community and state are probably building a network of education-minded individuals and change leaders. So is the U.S. Department of Education. Call 1-800-USA-LEARN to join our GOALS 2000 Network and to receive our monthly newsletter, announcements about our monthly Satellite Town Meetings, our Online Library, Internet discussion groups and more. You may also want to ask for information about:

• GOALS 2000 -- fact sheets, a handbook for your community, and more.

• The Community Toolkit for organizing your community to reach the National Education Goals -- from the National Education Goals Panel. Their number is 1-800-98-GOALS.

• School-to-work programs, including fact sheets on the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. The School-to-Work office can be reached at 202-260-7278.

• The Improving America's Schools Act, which reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (See Appendix 1)

• The Secretary's new Family Involvement Partnership for Learning, which is designed to promote greater family participation in children's learning.

• Moving America to the Head of the Class: 50 Simple Things You Can Do.

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"What the family does is more important to student success than family income or education," says a recent report by the U.S. Department of Education. Released as part of Secretary Riley's Family Involvement Initiative, the report, Strong Families, Strong Schools, is based on 30 years of research on parent and family involvement. It also suggests what schools, businesses, communities, and parents can do to help strengthen families and family-school partnerships. The report is available in our Online Library. Or you can order a copy by calling 1-800-USA-LEARN.

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The Department's Online Library

The U.S. Department of Education produces hundreds of publications each year. Some, such as A Teachers Guide to the U.S. Department of Education, may be of particular interest to you.

If you have access to Internet, you can call up many of those publications on your computer through the Department's Online Library. Run by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the Online Library features electronic "shelves" of information on GOALS 2000, school-to-work, the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act, family involvement, technology, education research, promising programs, and much more.

To access our Online Library, you must have certain software -- either Gopher client software or World Wide Web client software (such as NCSA Mosaic or Lynx). Or you must be able to "telnet" to a public access client elsewhere.

If you are using a Gopher client, point it to:

gopher.ed.gov

or select "North America-->USA-->General-->
U.S. Department of Education" from "All/Other Gophers in the World."

If you are using World Wide Web (WWW), point your WWW client to our uniform resource locator (URL):

http://www.ed.gov/

Another way to access the library is by using file transfer protocol (FTP). To do this, FTP to:

ftp.ed.gov (logon anonymous).

E-mail users can find out what Department publications and information are available through e-mail by sending an e-mail message to:

almanac@inet.ed.gov

In the body of the message type:

send catalog

(Note: Avoid the use of signature blocks and leave the subject line blank.)

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