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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

Money can buy many things to help children excel academically, like tutors and private school educations. But as those children go off to college, the one thing otherwise protective parents typically do not spend money on is making sure their children do not become victims of a crime.

Saturday, September 11th, 2010 at 06:40 0 comments

Some professors believe Wikipedia has no place in the footnotes of a college paper. But could it have a place on the syllabus

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 03:09 0 comments

A school district in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is hoping a specialized software application will help stop tragedies like the one that befell Phoebe Prince, an Irish-born teen who committed suicide in January after an alleged bullying campaign by fellow students . In the wake of her death, the Massachusetts state legislature passed a law mandating that schools create formal anti-bullying plans, as well as provide an anonymous way of reporting bullying incidents .

Saturday, September 4th, 2010 at 00:17 0 comments

Standardized exams — the multiple-choice, bubble tests in math and reading that have played a growing role in American public education in recent years — are being overhauled. Over the next four years, two groups of states, 44 in all, will get $330 million to work with hundreds of university professors and testing experts to design a series of new assessments that officials say will look very different from those in use today. The new tests, which Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, are to be ready for the 2014-15 school year.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 06:30 0 comments

With another summer ending, the time has come to ask the perennial question: Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book? Some think that developments since the last buying cycle, particularly the arrival of Apple ‘s iPad computing tablet, might foreshadow an especially good year for electronic texts. CourseSmart, an e-textbook consortium comprising five major publishers, says it has sold four times more e-textbooks in 2009-10 than it did the previous year (although it would not provide the number of copies)

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 20:03 0 comments

Before hurricane Katrina, the school system in New Orleans was like a dysfunctional marching band: It had structure and central direction, but academic failure and corruption dragged it down. Five years later, the schools are like a nascent jazz band: bursting with energy and improvisation and making bold academic strides – but still far from achieving their full promise

Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at 16:40 0 comments