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Inauguration 2009

President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address on the west front on the Capitol on Jan. 20.
President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address on the west front on the Capitol on Jan. 20.
Christopher Powers/Education Week
Federal Obama, Duncan Get to Work on Agenda
Newly inaugurated president vows to 'transform our schools.'
Alyson Klein, January 27, 2009
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Education Change as a Teachable Moment
When KIPP Academy of Opportunity director Ian Guidera brought 12 of his students to Washington to see Barack Obama sworn-in as the 44th President he decided to use the trip as an opportunity to teach the students about the importance of strong leadership.
Christopher Powers, January 22, 2009
Federal Hope for the Future: One Boy's Inauguration Journey
Loizos Karaiskos, a 5th grader at Silvermine Elementary School in Norwalk, Conn., was one of 2,900 middle school students participating in the Junior Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference from January 16-21. The students, who came from all over the country, were chosen to participate in the program because of their academic achievements, leadership skills, and school involvement. Education Week followed Loizos as he participated in inauguration events and educational activities during his visit to Washington. Part of special Inauguration '09 coverage. Video
January 21, 2009
Federal Duncan, 5 Other Nominees Confirmed
The Senate swiftly approved six members of President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Tuesday, but put off for a day the vote on his choice of Hillary Rodham Clinton to be secretary of state.
The Associated Press, January 21, 2009
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President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address on the west front on the Capitol on Jan. 20.
President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address on the west front on the Capitol on Jan. 20.
Christopher Powers/Education Week
Federal Obama Cites Schools in Inaugural Address
The “work to be done” by the nation includes transforming education for “the demands of a new age,” the 44th president says.
Alyson Klein, January 21, 2009
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School Choice & Charters Democracy Prep Has a Dream
About three dozen students from the Democracy Prep Charter School in New York City's Harlem kicked off the school’s Inauguration program on Friday, January 16, when they traveled to Washington to recite the “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, as the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did more than 45 years ago.
January 17, 2009
Federal Past Inaugurals Have Cited Education
John Adams, 1797: ...[I]f a love of science and letters and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people, not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes, and of society in all its forms, but as the only means of preserving our Constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the spirit of party, the spirit of intrigue, the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments; ... can enable me in any degree to comply with your wishes, it shall be my strenuous endeavor that this sagacious injunction of the two Houses shall not be without effect.”
January 16, 2009
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Federal Obama’s Inauguration Seen as Teachable Moment
Educators are leveraging the event for learning, both on site in the nation’s capital and in their own classrooms and communities.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, January 16, 2009
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