Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

The decade after high school graduation is filled with lots of dreams. Then real life sets in — and sometimes turns those plans upside down

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 at 01:10 0 comments

The British International School of New York offers spacious waterfront classrooms, small computers encased in rubber for small people who tend to drop them, and a pool for the once-a-week swimming classes required for all students. But there is nothing within its halls or on its Web site that indicates what differentiates British International from the teeming masses of expensive private schools in New York: It is run for profit

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 15:27 0 comments

One morning last winter I watched a middle-school teacher named Al Doyle give a lesson, though not your typical lesson. This was New York City, a noncharter public school in an old building on a nondescript street near Gramercy Park, inside an ordinary room that looked a lot like all the other rooms around it, with fluorescent lights and linoleum floors and steam-driven radiators that hissed and clanked endlessly

Sunday, September 19th, 2010 at 03:18 0 comments

The difference between the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Applied Engineering and Technology Library and other science-focused libraries is not that its on-site collection is also available electronically.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010 at 02:14 0 comments

Educate to Innovate : President Obama has launched the “Educate to Innovate” effort to improve U.S. students’ participation and performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 07:30 0 comments

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania technological college with fewer students than many Facebook users have friends is blacking out social media for a week. The bold experiment at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology — which has drawn praise, criticism and even a jab on late-night TV — means students and staff can’t access Facebook, Twitter or a host of other ubiquitous social networks while on campus

Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 02:14 0 comments

WASHINGTON — Students enrolled this semester in “Education in Black America” at Howard University got their reward Thursday morning for slogging to campus instead of sleeping in: About 10 minutes into class, singer-songwriter John Legend strode in. No introduction needed

Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 22:41 0 comments

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is announcing that 100 corporate CEOs will collaborate to support his goal of improving student performance in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math education.

Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 11:06 0 comments

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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 at 22:02 0 comments

NEW DELHI — When the Indian education minister spoke last autumn of inviting overseas education providers to set up campuses in the country, he mentioned the likes of Harvard , Yale and Oxford. Related Researchers in Asian Countries Raise Their Scientific Profiles Worldwide (September 13, 2010) U.S

Monday, September 13th, 2010 at 15:50 0 comments