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The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary
Education has announced the appointment of a new Deputy
Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign
Language Education. Clay Pell is the grandson of former
Senator Claiborne Pell, after whom the Pell Grant
program is named.
Below is the message from the Department of
Education:
 We
are pleased to welcome Clay Pell as our new Deputy
Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign
Language Education. Clay joins us from the White House,
where he served as Director for Strategic Planning on
the National Security Staff and helped advance President
Obama's key national security priorities.
Joining the Department of Education, Clay's goal
is to advance President Obama's vision for America's
global competitiveness, including growing the foreign
language competence of America's students and workforce.
Clay brings critical experience from a breadth of
departments and agencies including the White House,
State Department, and CIA. In addition, Clay has a
personal commitment to foreign language study as a
speaker of Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. Clay studied
law in Argentina and China, earned his J.D. from
Georgetown University Law Center, and graduated from
Harvard College with high honors in Social Studies and a
Citation in Modern Standard Arabic.
Finally, Clay will be an important bridge to our
military community as a reserve officer in the U.S.
Coast Guard, including nearly four years on active duty
and legal experience as Appellate Government Counsel for
the U.S. Coast Guard.
Submitted by Crystal Goldie, legislative
assistant for JNCL/NCLIS
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And
the award goes to…! NNELL is seeking nominations for the
NNELL award for Outstanding Support of Early Second
Language Learning at the ACTFL conference in Orlando. At
the ACTFL conference in Philadelphia, NNELL recognized
Dr. John David Edwards for his support and advocacy for
foreign languages. The NNELL Award for Outstanding
Support of Early Second Language Learning will be given
to an individual or individuals who have demonstrated
outstanding support of early second language learning of
languages other than English. Nominees may be actively
involved in their efforts in a variety of ways
including, but not limited to, the following: principal
or other school administrator, district or state school
superintendent, classroom teacher, parent, school board
member, businessperson, civic leader, politician/elected
representative. Nominees should be individuals whose
primary job responsibilities are not related to the
field of second language education. For more information
please go to nnell.org/awards . Submissions should be
postmarked no later than June 1, 2013.