 Siouxland People Sioux City Journal Magna Cum Laude; Luis Ramirez, Sioux City, BA in Communication Studies; Brittney Switzer, Sioux City, BA in History; Leah Tran from Sioux City, BA in Exercise Science; Kathleen Vondrak, Sioux City, BA in Exercise Science; Korey Wiemold, Cleghorn, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New! GameUpTop Offerings from Leading Educational Games Publishers, Live on... PR Newswire (press release) Included topics span Science, Math, Social Studies, and Technology, for elementary, middle, and high school. Based on educator feedback at ISTE, GameUp will be further enriched for the 2011-2012 school year, and will continue to grow via community ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Smith County schools show gains in TAKS scores KYTX Seventy percent of students have to pass the reading/English language arts, writing and socialstudies tests. That's the same as last year. Tyler ISD students showed districtwide gains in math, social studies and science for the 2010-11 school year. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| High schoolers grab college credit Palladium-Item In Christopher Davison's computer science courses at Ivy Tech, students build and take apart computers in a cardboard box to simulate real-world situations, like when a hard drive crashes, or how advances in technology simplify computer-operation ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Women In Power: Ann Marie Sastry Races to Create Next-Gen Batteries -- Khosla ... Huffington Post (blog) When asked about the underrepresentation of women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields, she says, "We, as a culture, as an academic community, and as an industrial community need to make the opportunity clear to all groups. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| When Matter Melts RedOrbit Luo, Ritter, and Xu are with Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division. Luo is also with the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and Xu is also with the Central China Normal University in Wuhan. This work was supported by the Indian ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| University seeks novel ways for human-machine interaction Malta Independent Online The IoL will be offering the new degree course (Bachelor of Science in Human LanguageTechnology) as from next October. The development of this degree programme is expected to bring with it new research opportunities. One of the purposes of future ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mobile Phone: A Blessing Or A Curse? GhanaWeb The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer has now tied mobile phone radiation to an increased risk for “glioma brain tumors”. Thirty one scientists from 14 countries, including the United States, spent a week poring over existing studies of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Aiding baby boomers, new online education company addresses employment needs Imperial Valley News Among the foundation's initiatives is the EnCorps Teachers Program, founded by Lansing to retrain retirees from the technology sector to serve as California public middle and high school science and math teachers. Another SLF initiative is PrimeTime ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drug firm's wooing made whistleblower suspicious San Antonio Express It's really yes or no,†said Holcomb, a retired colonel who heads the Center for Translational InjuryResearch at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. “You have a lot of people bleeding to death in Iraq.†The Justice ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ripley schools rated 'effective' Georgetown News Democrat The RULH junior class met the state standard of 85-percent in reading (87.5 percent) and writing (87.5 percent), but failed to meet the state standard of 85 percent in mathematics (82.5 percent), social studies (81 percent) and science (78.8 percent). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Technology playing greater role in inappropriate student-teacher relationships Fort Worth Star Telegram While there have been no national studies on whether social media have contributed to an increase in inappropriate relationships between teachers and students, a 2004 report showed that about 10 percent of students said they have been the target of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Parkview, Mountain View students shine in economics education Gwinnettdailypost.com Jade Gillispie was Fowler's teacher during the 2010-11 school year in the Healthcare ScienceProgram at Maxwell High School of Technology. After walking across the stage last month to receive their high school diplomas, Gwinnett County Public Schools' ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Growing pains and gains for local preteens The Columbian Clark County fourth-graders today turn to Google, not encyclopedias, to conduct research; give presentations using PowerPoint, not posters; and type, rather than handwrite, papers. The trade-off to acquiring this tech savvy is that spelling and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Friends in high ACES Aspen Daily News by Chad Abraham, Aspen Daily News Columnist In the summer of 2008, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies welcomed EO Wilson for an informal lunch at Hallam Lake. The famed naturalist was in town for the Aspen Ideas Festival and was persuaded to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Singapore to host South Asian Diaspora Convention The Hindu Pleased at this prospect, Gopinath Pillai, Chairman of the Singapore-based Institute of South AsianStudies (ISAS), said in a conversation with The Hindu that the project was an exercise in translating into reality a proposal by the City-State's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Penn State University graduates Chambersburg Public Opinion Waynesboro -- Brendan Kotlanger, electrical engineering; Jeffrey Mohn, structural design and construction engineering technology; Frank Sacco, information sciences and technology; Daniel Shriver, information sciences and technology; and Helle Tychsen, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| John Kelly: Politics won't stop space innovation Florida Today The web is abuzz with news from science fiction, movie and space buff websites that the space shuttle Discovery gets a prominent cameo in the upcoming “Transformers 3” movie. You may recall scenes were shot at the Kennedy Space Center and we captured ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Where to Find Work for Teens This Summer Wall Street Journal For example, kids who excel at math, science or computer technology could start a tutoring or website-development business. With more competition for fewer jobs, career experts say it's important for teens to look and act professional during an ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Grading Our Schools: Hazleton Area students behind Pa. peers Standard Speaker According to the data, Hazleton Area third-grade students did meet or exceed average state scores in both math and reading, and fourth-grade students hit the average in science but failed in math and reading. Fifth-grade students met or exceeded the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The best is yet come Grads say the future is bright for Class of 2011 The Hudson Reporter Despite this three-year project Patel said, “I don't want to go into research and just do studies my whole life. I plan to also study psychology and I want to work with patients after [attending] medical school.” Patel's classmate Shanny Li, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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