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Resources for learning about the U.S. Constitution.

Secretary Spellings joined with members of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. to announce a partnership to raise awareness in the African American community of available education resources under No Child Left Behind.

President Bush announced his intention to nominate Lauren M. Maddox to serve as ED Assistant Secretary for the Office of Communications and Outreach.

Find resources for teaching about U.S. Constitution. Meet the 55 delegates who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to rewrite the Articles of Confederation. Learn what issues they faced. Discover the sources that inspired them. Read the essays in NYC papers urging ratification of their proposal. Explore a 200-year timeline showing the impact of their work, the Constitution, on our history. Search the Constitution and see explanations of 300 topics. (National Archives and Records Administration, Library of Congress)

This back-to-school effort promotes nutrition, physical activity, and learning. Resources to Improve Schools is a database of information on school changes that can improve nutrition and physical activity among students. Topics include advertising, after school programs, a la carte foods, assessment tools, childhood obesity, family outreach, nutrition education, physical activity, physical education, school meal programs, staff wellness, and more. (Multiple Agencies)

Secretary Spellings spoke at the dedication ceremony of GlenOak High School and Plain Community Campus in Plain Township, Ohio.

Ten illustrated essays explore themes in American art. Each essay focuses on one theme: abstraction, the figure, historical subjects, landscape, marine painting, portraiture, narrative, genre, still life, and topographical views. (National Gallery of Art)

Secretary Spellings announced the award of $101,687,216 in Early Reading First grants to 32 recipients in 25 states to improve the language and early literacy skills of young children.

Secretary Spellings announced a grant to improve young children’s language and literacy skills and met with business leaders in Providence, Rhode Island.

ED’s Furniture for Schools Program, which has donated more than 12,000 school desks and other furniture valued at $4.6 million to Hurricane Katrina-impacted schools, was honored Thursday night in a Minneapolis ceremony.

Secretary Spellings announced the award of over $23 million in grants to 74 school districts in 26 states to help them enhance and fortify their emergency response and crisis management plans.

Secretary Spellings issued a statement regarding the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

President Bush announced his intention to nominate Sara Martinez Tucker to serve as Under Secretary of Education.