    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 01, 2000]
    [Pages 208-213]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

    400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202

    Phone, 800-USA-LEARN (toll-free). Internet, www.ed.gov.
    SECRETARY OF EDUCATION                            Richard W. Riley
        Chief of Staff                                Diane Rossi
        Director, Office of Public Affairs            Alex Wohl, Acting
        General Counsel                               Judith A. Winston
        Inspector General                             Lorraine Lewis
        Deputy Secretary                              Frank S. Holleman III
            Assistant Secretary for                   Scott Fleming
                    Legislation and
                    Congressional Affairs
            Assistant Secretary for                   Gilberto Mario Moreno
                    Intergovernmental and
                    Interagency Affairs
            Chief Financial Officer                   Thomas Skelly, Acting
            Chief Information Officer                 Craig Luigart
            Director for Management                   Willie Gilmore
        Under Secretary                               Judith A. Winston,
                                                              Acting
            Assistant Secretary for Civil             Norma V. Cantu
                    Rights
            Assistant Secretary for                   C. Kent McGuire
                    Educational Research and
                    Improvement
            Assistant Secretary for                   Michael Cohen
                    Elementary and Secondary
                    Education
            Assistant Secretary for                   Lee Fritschler
                    Postsecondary Education
            Assistant Secretary for Special           Judith E. Heumann
                    Education and
                    Rehabilitative Services
            Assistant Secretary for                   Patricia W. McNeil
                    Vocational and Adult
                    Education
            Chief Operating Officer for               Greg Woods
                    Student Financial
                    Assistance
            Director, Office of Bilingual             Arthur Love, Acting
                    Education and Minority
                    Languages Affairs

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    The Department of Education establishes policy for, administers, and
    coordinates most Federal assistance to education. Its mission is to
    ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence
    throughout the Nation.

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    The Department of Education was created by the Department of Education
    Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3411) and is administered under the
    supervision and direction of the Secretary of Education.
    Secretary  The Secretary of Education advises the President on education
    plans, policies, and programs of the Federal Government and serves as
    the chief executive officer of the Department, coordinating and
    overseeing all Department activities, providing support and
    encouragement to States and localities on matters related to education,
    and focusing the resources of the Department and the attention of the
    country on ensuring equal access to education and promoting educational
    excellence throughout the Nation.

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    Activities

    Bilingual Education  The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority
    Languages Affairs administers programs designed to fund activities that
    assist students with limited English proficiency. The Office administers
    grants and contracts for research and evaluation, technical assistance,
    and clearinghouse activities to meet the special educational needs of
    populations with limited English proficiency.
    Educational Research and Improvement  The Office of Educational Research
    and Improvement provides national leadership in expanding fundamental
    knowledge and improving the quality of education. It is responsible for
    conducting and supporting education-related research activities;
    monitoring the state of education through the collection and analysis of
    statistical data; promoting the use and application of research and
    development to improve instructional practices in the classroom; and
    disseminating these findings to States and local education entities.
    Elementary and Secondary Education  The Office of Elementary and
    Secondary Education formulates policy for, directs, and coordinates the
    Department's activities relating to preschool, elementary, and secondary
    education. Included are grants and contracts to State educational
    agencies and local school districts, postsecondary schools, and
    nonprofit organizations for State and local reform, compensatory,
    migrant, and Indian education; drug-free schools; other school
    improvement programs; and impact aid.
    Postsecondary Education  The Office of Postsecondary Education
    formulates policy and directs and coordinates programs for assistance to
    postsecondary educational institutions and students pursuing a
    postsecondary education. Programs include assistance for the improvement
    and expansion of American educational resources for international
    studies and services, grants to improve instruction in crucial academic
    subjects, and construction assistance for academic facilities.
    Special Education and Rehabilitative Services  The Office of Special
    Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) provides leadership to
    ensure that people with disabilities have services, resources, and equal
    opportunities to learn, work, and live as fully integrated, contributing
    members of society. OSERS supports programs that serve millions of
    disabled children, youth, and adults. It coordinates the activities of
    the Office of Special Education Programs, which works to help States
    provide quality educational opportunities and early-intervention
    services to help students with disabilities achieve their goals. OSERS
    supports State vocational rehabilitation programs that give disabled
    people the education, job training, and job placement services they need
    to gain meaningful employment. It supports research and technological
    programs that are crafting blueprints for a barrier-free, inclusive
    society.
    Student Financial Assistance  The Office of Student Financial Assistance
    (SFA) directs and coordinates activities of the Department of Education
    to provide financial assistance through grants and work and loan
    programs to students pursuing a postsecondary education. The Federal
    student financial aid programs include: Stafford loans; parent loans for
    undergraduate students; supplemental loans for students; Federal insured
    student loans; consolidated loans; Perkins loans; income contingent
    loans; Pell grants; the College Work-Study Program; supplemental
    educational opportunities grants; and State student incentive grants.
    SFA also works to improve credit management and debt collection through
    the collection of defaulted student loans under the Guaranteed Student
    Loan Program and the Law Enforcement Education Program, and the
    collection of overpayments in the Pell Grant Program and Supplemental
    Educational Opportunities Grant Program.
    Vocational and Adult Education  The Office of Vocational and Adult
    Education administers grant, contract, and technical assistance programs
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    vocational-technical education and for adult education and literacy.
    Regional Offices  Each regional office serves as a center for the
    dissemination of information and provides technical assistance to State
    and local educational agencies and other institutions and individuals
    interested in Federal education activities. Offices are located in
    Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Kansas
    City, MO; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; and
    Seattle, WA.

    Federally Aided Corporations

    American Printing House for the Blind

    P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206

    Phone, 502-895-2405
    President                                         Tuck Tinsley
    Chairman of the Board                             John Barr III

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    The American Printing House for the Blind was incorporated by the
    Kentucky Legislature in 1858 to assist in the education of the blind by
    distributing Braille books, talking books, and educational aids without
    cost to educational institutions educating blind children.

    For further information, contact the American Printing House for the
    Blind, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206. Phone, 502-895-2405.

    Gallaudet University

    800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002

    Phone, 202-651-5000. Internet, www.gallaudet.edu.
    Chairman, Board of Trustees                       Glenn B. Anderson
    President, Gallaudet University                   I. King Jordan

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    The Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and
    the Blind was incorporated by act of February 16, 1857 (11 Stat. 161).
    The name of the institution was changed in 1865, 1911, 1954, and
    eventually in 1986 to Gallaudet University. The University was
    established to provide a liberal higher education for deaf persons who
    need special facilities to compensate for their loss of hearing. The
    primary purpose of the university is to afford its students the
    intellectual and spiritual development that can be acquired through a
    study of the liberal arts and sciences.
        In addition to its undergraduate program, the University operates a
    graduate program at the master's level to prepare teachers and other
    professional personnel to work with persons who are deaf, a research
    program focusing on problems related to deafness, and continuing
    education for deaf adults.
    Accreditation  The University is accredited by the Middle States
    Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the National Council for
    Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the Council on Social Work
    Education.
    Model Secondary School for the Deaf  The school was established by act
    of October 15, 1966 (20 U.S.C. 693), to provide maximum flexibility in
    curricula and to encourage the originality, imagination, and innovation
    needed to

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    satisfy deaf students' high aspirations. The school provides day and
    residential facilities for deaf youth of high school age, in order to
    prepare them for college or for postsecondary opportunities other than
    college; prepares all students to the maximum extent possible to be
    independent, contributing members of society; and stimulates the
    development of similar programs throughout the Nation.
    Kendall Demonstration Elementary School  The School became the Nation's
    first demonstration elementary school for the deaf by act of December
    24, 1970 (20 U.S.C. 695), which authorized Gallaudet College to operate
    and maintain it as a model that will experiment in techniques and
    materials and to disseminate information from these and future projects
    to educational facilities for deaf children throughout the country.

    For further information, contact the Public Relations Office, Gallaudet
    University, 800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002. Phone, 202-
    651-5505. Internet, www.gallaudet.edu.

    Howard University

    2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC 20059

    Phone, 202-806-6100. Internet, www.howard.edu.
    President                                         H. Patrick Swygert

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    Howard University was established by act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat.
    438). It offers instruction in 12 schools and colleges: the colleges of
    arts and sciences; dentistry; engineering, architecture, and computer
    sciences; medicine; and pharmacy, nursing, and allied health sciences;
    the graduate school of arts and sciences; the schools of business;
    communications; divinity; education; law; and social work; and a summer
    school. In addition, Howard University has research institutes, centers,
    and special programs in the following areas: disability and
    socioeconomic policy studies; terrestrial and extraterrestrial
    atmospheric studies; aerospace science and technology; materials science
    research; the New York African burial ground project; speech and
    hearing; vitiligo; drug abuse and addiction; science, space, and
    technology; African-American resources; cancer; child development;
    computational science and engineering; international affairs; sickle
    cell disease; and small business development.

    For further information, contact the Office of University
    Communications, Howard University, 2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC
    20059. Phone, 202-806-0970. Internet, www.howard.edu.

    National Institute for Literacy

    Suite 730, 1775 I Street NW., Washington, DC 20006

    Phone, 202-632-1500
    Director                                          Andrew Hartman

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    The National Institute for Literacy leads the national effort towards a
    fully literate America. By building and strengthening national,
    regional, and State literacy infrastructures, the Institute fosters
    collaboration and innovation. Its goal is to ensure that all Americans
    with literacy needs receive the high-quality education

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    and basic skills services necessary to achieve success in the workplace,
    family, and community.

    National Technical Institute for the Deaf

    Rochester Institute of Technology

    52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623

    Phone, 716-475-6853 (voice/TDD)
    President, Rochester Institute of Technology      Albert J. Simone
    Dean, National Technical Institute for the Deaf   T. Alan Hurwitz

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    The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) was established by
    act of June 8, 1965 (20 U.S.C. 681). It is an integral part of a larger
    institution known as the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The
    presence of NTID at RIT is the first effort to educate large numbers of
    deaf students within a college campus planned primarily for hearing
    students. It provides educational opportunities for qualified students
    from every State in the Nation and, through educational outreach,
    publications, and related services, serves deaf persons throughout the
    world. In addition, NTID conducts research to better understand the role
    of deafness in education and employment, and to develop innovative
    teaching techniques. It develops training activities for its faculty and
    staff, as well as for other professionals working with deaf persons
    across the country.
        Both Institutes are accredited by the Middle States Association of
    Colleges and Secondary Schools. Rochester Institute of Technology also
    has been accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional
    Development, National Association of Schools of Art, Committee on
    Professional Training of American Chemical Society, Council on Social
    Work Education, and the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical
    Laboratory Sciences.

    For further information, contact the Rochester Institute of Technology,
    National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Department of Recruitment and
    Admissions, Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive,
    Rochester, NY 14623-5604. Phone, 716-475-6700.

    Sources of Information

    Inquiries on the following information may be directed to the specified
    office, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC
    20202.
    Contracts and Small Business Activities  Call or write the Office of
    Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Phone, 202-708-9820.
    Employment  Inquiries and applications for employment, and inquiries
    regarding the college recruitment program, should be directed to the
    Human Resources Group. Phone, 202-401-0553.
    Organization  Contact the Executive Office, Office of Management. Phone,
    202-401-0690. TDD, 202-260-8956.

    For further information, contact the Information Resources Center,
    Department of Education, Room 5E248 (FB-6), 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
    Washington, DC 20202. Phone, 800-USA-LEARN. Internet, www.ed.gov.