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All great businesses start with a bright idea. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine today release their eighth rankings of 25 top graduate and undergrad university programs for budding entrepreneurs, whose bright ideas can turn into successful businesses. The rankings are posted online at Entrepreneur magazine’s website, http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges with facts about each university

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 07:00 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

SAN ANTONIO – A Texas mother who witnesses said pulled a gun on a seventh-grade volleyball team that badly beat her daughter’s team told police she merely waved her finger and never threatened the children, officials said Friday. The Judson school district initially said witnesses reported that an angry mother brandished a gun at middle school students as they celebrated a lopsided win over her daughter’s team. But a search of the woman’s house turned up no gun, and the district acknowledged inconsistencies in the witnesses’ allegations.

Saturday, September 11th, 2010 at 08:20 0 comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Texas schools that cut bureaucratic costs by sharing services — from accounting to transportation — would get grants worth 10 percent of their savings under a plan Governor Rick Perry proposed on Tuesday. Texas is expected to have to slash spending in its next two-year budget because its deficit is estimated at as high as $18 billion.

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 23:25 0 comments

The University of California has appointed an official to manage spending and operations at President Mark G. Yudof’s new private residence, after Mr. Yudof ran up nearly $700,000 in expenses and involved senior university officials in time-consuming personal matters over a rented mansion in the Oakland Hills.

Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 05:20 0 comments

Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam inched downward this year, yet slightly more students who took the test proved to be prepared for college, according to a report released Wednesday. The findings sound contradictory.

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 11:27 0 comments

As schools handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets.

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 07:06 0 comments

Additional Recovery Funds for Texas, Vermont : Vermont and Texas among the states that will receive additional Recovery Act funds to support jobs and drive education reforms.

Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 03:42 0 comments

ATLANTA (AP) — Dave Ebersbach lost his job as a math teacher this summer, and he spends each day hoping that his poverty-stricken school in Ohio will call up and offer him his position back. He and thousands of other teachers around the country could get their jobs back now that the Senate has approved an emergency stimulus package designed to keep educators and other public employees out of the unemployment line. ANALYSIS: Teacher pension funds are short billions SURVEY: Self-evaluation better than parent, student evaluation, teachers say “My biggest thing is I want to go back to the school I was at for the students,” said Ebersbach, 43, one of 14 math teachers in the Toledo school district to receive notice a few weeks ago that their jobs were cut

Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 21:58 0 comments

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 million homeless students attended public schools in 2008-09, a 41% increase over the previous two years and another sign of how broadly the economic recession has struck America. The numbers, based on federal data, were released Tuesday by groups advocating for more federal aid for struggling families.

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 at 15:00 0 comments