• Westinghouse N-Vision Announces Brighter Future Grant Program - Forbes

    PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced sponsorship of a grant for Middle and High Schools focusing on science, technology or mathematics through a proposed hands-on project with students. Administered ...
    2008-08-15 08:02:00
  • STAR Test Results Show Steady Gains for BUSD, State - Berkeley Daily Planet

    The results for California's 2008 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program show a higher percentage of students in the Berkeley Unified School District scored proficient or above in reading, writing and mathematics as compared to the state ...
    2008-08-16 11:22:00
  • Live - Olympics - BBC Sport

    1537: Usain's lapping this up and the crowd of 90,000 rises to its feet as one. Few, if any, will ever witness anything like that in the flesh again. What chances Bolt ripping up the record books again in the 200m? Michael Johnson, look out... 1534 ...
    2008-08-16 07:33:00
  • Emerging Teacher-Leaders in Elementary School Mathematics Grants - eSchool Online

    The purpose of this grant is to increase the breadth and depth of the mathematics content knowledge of one elementary school teacher who has a demonstrated commitment to mathematics teaching and learning. The applicant must have the support of the ...
    2008-08-13 05:59:00
  • New certificate for Grade 9s - Beeld

    A NEW General Education Certificate (GEC) for Grade 9 learners is expected to radically shift the focus away from matric next year. The Department of Education (DoE) has explained that from next year Grade 9 learners can choose whether to pursue ...
    2008-08-16 09:34:00
  • DepEd on a roll - The Journal Group Online

    AT LEAST 190,000 teaching personnel were made to undergo trainings and seminars in the school year 2007 to 2008 to upgrade their teaching competencies and improve the students’ performance in English, Science and Mathematics. Education Secretary ...
    2008-08-16 08:59:00
  • Gov’t giving more attention to sports than academics’ - Philippine Star Online

    The Mathematics Trainers’ Guild-Philippines, the organization of math teachers responsible for the consecutive triumphs of young Filipino students in international math tournaments, laments that there is an over-emphasis on sports development in ...
    2008-08-16 11:15:00
  • Trading class soldiers on - Chicago Tribune

    With a shaved head and fixed gaze, Todd Hanson still looks like a Marine. He drills military veterans in how to trade foreign currencies, ambushing the market at the most profitable moments. "Right now, we're just waiting and watching," Hanson ...
    2008-08-16 08:44:00
  • Funding boost eyed for Science Olympics gold - Daily Yomiuri On-Line

    The Education, Science and Technology Ministry decided Saturday to increase its budget request for funding to boost the chances of high school students picking up medals at the international Science Olympics, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. High ...
    2008-08-16 11:22:00
  • Beyond The SAT (Forbes)

    We owe students the chance to be judged on fair and rigorous criteria.
    2008-08-16 03:12:55
  • Four-Day School Weeks (Time Magazine)

    As gas prices go up and bus service eats into school budgets, more districts are starting to cut class
    2008-08-16 11:51:01
  • Four-Day School Weeks. (Time.com via Yahoo! News)

    Four-Day School Weeks
    2008-08-16 11:00:00
  • News Updates: (Berkeley Daily Planet)

    The results for California's 2008 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program show a higher percentage of students in the Berkeley Unified School District scored proficient or above in reading, writing and mathematics as compared to the state results.
    2008-08-16 11:38:05
  • 'Gov't giving more attention to sports than academics' (Philstar.com)

    The Mathematics Trainers’ Guild-Philippines, the organization of math teachers responsible for the consecutive triumphs of young Filipino students in international math tournaments, laments that there is an over-emphasis on sports development in the country to the detriment of academic excellence, especially in the core subjects of Math and Science.
    2008-08-16 08:50:04
  • 'A utopian document, a utopian law' - Jerusalem Post

    "But I have a limited repertoire," he says with a smile, an expertise which extends across a millennium and through dozens of difficult, tightly-written works that are the record of the rabbinic love affair with the Torah. For Neusner, the study of ...
    2008-08-16 02:03:00
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