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Public Affairs Specialist position available in the U.S. Department of Education. Resume and applications are due by June 25. For more information about the position, go to U. S. Department of Education, Jobs, Federal Career Intern programs – PDF.

The SOE presents “Closing the Achievement Gap,” its second Shaping the Future event on Tuesday, April 27. SOE faculty member Mavis Sanders will moderate a panel of experts to consider ways of improving educational opportunities for all students by identifying programs and strategies for raising achievement and closing …gaps between white and minority students. 6:30 [...]

Closing the Achievement Gap in Schools
The School of Education will host a panel discussion on “Closing the Achievement Gap in Public Schools” at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, at the Rockville Campus.
 To register and for mor information, go to http://education.jhu.edu/shaping-future/.  If you have questions, please call 410-516-5588.

The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is host to this second annual national summit (May 4 – 5) exploring the topic of Attention and Engagement in Learning. the event is sponsored by the JHU SOE’s Neuro-Education Initiative.  In conjunction with the summit, AVAM is hosting a free panel for educators and teachers on May 4, 2010 [...]

Festival Dates: 10/10/10 – 10/24/10
Expo on the National Mall: October 23 & 24, 2010
The Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival will be the country’s first national science festival and will descend on the Washington, D.C. area in the Fall of 2010. The Festival promises to be the ultimate multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary celebration of science [...]

SOE’s Student and Alumni Counseling Association (SACA) MCC and Homewood Chapters are seeking officers for the 2010 – 2011 academic year.  Positions include president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. Both students and alumni are eligible to serve as officers. All of MCC’s and most of Homewood’s officers are graduating and/or moving to other states, so [...]

Great follow-up piece in the Johns Hopkins Magazine featuring the panelists from the SOE’s No Child Left Behind panel discussion that took place last December.
Johns Hopkins Magazine – Will this be on the test?

REGISTER NOW for a SOE Student Orientation  – Learn about the services offered at the SOE and  have your questions answered by a student service representative.
Tuesday, January 19, 2009, MCC at 6:00 p.m.
or
Thursday, January 21, 2009, Education Building in Baltimore at 6:00 p.m.
To register, email soe.students@jhu.edu.
See you then!

It is impossible to adequately acknowledge in simple words the enduring generosity and inspiring support Johns Hopkins University has received over the past year from students, staff and faculty. So JHU has enlisted help from our amazingly talented faculty, staff and students, who have joined together to create the video at this link:
http://thankyou.jhu.edu/

The Department of Counseling and Human Services presents: Michael Seltzer, Ph.D. Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Oslo University College Oslo, Norway
 An Anthropologist Living with Recovering Heroin Addicts: Lessons for Counselors
This workshop presents a treatment program for substance abusers carried out at a therapeutic community treatment located in rural Hungary. The program was studied by an [...]