1. •Internships in education support programs that
change the way people interact with the world.
• Whether it is a first grader’s owl pellet
dissection or a graduate student’s foreign
language immersion, each individual learning
experience translates into a community’s
progress.
•That’s why education internships have the
potential to be both incredibly rewarding and
challenging
2. •As an education intern, your job is to research
just that.
•You have the chance to influence every level of
education. At the nature-based treatment center
Green Chimneys; you’ll help children with special
needs explore the human-animal bond.
• Lend your organizational and administrative skills
to the office of a major university. Or, head
straight for the nation’s capital and sound off in
policy forums with the National Education
Association in Washington, D.C.
3. •Interns in education are also researchers, writers,
marketers, activists, and communicators.
•Opportunities to work in education crop up in
every sector, so you can focus on your science or
environmental expertise.
• Wherever you go, however, you’ll meet people
who are dedicated to building new learning tools
and implementing better education policies.
• So jump right in, and leave the experience
inspired to do more.
4. •The internship program with Department of
Education is designed to expose students to what
it’s like working for a wide-range of departments
on educational policy within the Department of
Education as well as gaining experience working
for the U.S. federal government.
•Interns applying for the Department of Education
Internship Program have an opportunity to
request specific work assignments as well as a
specific department that they’d like to work in
officers.
5. Some of the offices where students have worked
in the past include:
•Office of the Secretary
•Office of the Deputy Secretary
•Office of the Undersecretary
•Office of Communications and Outreach
•Office of the General Counsel
•Office for Civil Rights
