Tag: Dr. Jill Biden

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Expert Assesses Biden’s Education Agenda During First 100 Days

Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, who led President Biden’s education transition team earlier this year, said that the Biden administration has already made dramatic reforms to public education during the first 100 days in office. Darling-Hammond, who is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and President and CEO […]

May 6, 2021

Community Colleges

College Promise for All Proposal Aims to Make Free College a Reality

The dream of free college for all recently took a big step forward. The College Promise campaign unveiled its proposal for joint support from both federal and state governments. This partnership, if enacted, could make public community and two-or four-year colleges and universities completely free for all qualifying students.

April 23, 2021

Community Colleges

New Effort Focuses on Increasing Community College Success for Women Students

Achieving the Dream is teaming up with the Biden Foundation to spearhead a bold, new initiative called “Community College Women Succeed,” aimed at helping adult women learners — including single parents — succeed and complete community college.

February 20, 2019

News Roundup

Jill Biden to Deliver Commencement Speech at Alabama College

MOBILE, Ala. — Dr. Jill Biden will deliver the commencement speech at a community college in Alabama. News outlets report the wife of former Vice President Joe Biden will deliver the commencement speech at Bishop State Community College on May 10. The Mobile school says Biden and former President Barack Obama led the first-ever White […]

April 24, 2018

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Education Summit Addresses ‘A Nation At Risk’ 35 Years Later

WASHINGTON — On the 35th anniversary of the seminal report “A Nation at Risk,” a bipartisan group of education and business leaders and policymakers gathered at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education to discuss the challenges and progress across the American education landscape since 1983

April 12, 2018

Community Colleges

Jill Biden: Community Colleges Are Vital

Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States, shared stories of success with community college leaders at the annual Achieving the Dream National Reform Network conference in Baltimore on Friday.

February 22, 2015