Latest Scientific and Math Discoveries

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• Strategies to make schoolwork less of a chore, more rewarding

  The National Center for Education Statistics found that between 1980 and 2002, the number of high school sophomores who spent more than 10 hours a week on homework rose from 7% to 37%.
  2010-09-04 02:15:51

• ? = BEAUTY

  Looking harried but still dashing, like one of Saul Bellow's larger-than-life, take-on-the-world characters, Horace "Woody" Brock excuses himself to take a phone call. "That's the problem with your generation," he tells the caller (presumably not his mother). "You're lazy, you leave everything to the last minute."
  2010-09-04 02:52:04

• Dan Haifley, Our Ocean Backyard: The ocean classroom

  Since April 2008, Gary Griggs and I have written 128 columns that we hope, taken together, tell a bit about our ocean backyard.
  2010-09-04 03:46:58

• Missouri among states taking Race to the Top

  Kansas City -- An effort to replace the current patchwork system of academic tests with a new national exams is getting a big boost.
  2010-09-04 07:36:37

• Kingston Library adds math circle - From the Poughkeepsie Journal

  KINGSTON — Kingston Library will host a monthly Math Circle presented by Japheth Wood, professor of mathematics at Bard College.
  2010-09-04 06:09:04

• Building a foundation with mathematics - Killeen Daily Herald

  Real world math lessons don't get much more "real world" than this one. At Patterson Middle School, eighth-grade math teacher Roger Barker asked the construction foreman working next door if he would consider talking ...
  2010-09-03 11:52:00

• Editor's Notebook

  State Superintendent Sandy Garrett has announced the 2010 ACT college-entrance exam scores for Oklahoma public high schools.
  2010-09-03 11:23:14

• SCIENCE HALL-PLUS

    Back in school after a five-year absence, Hutchinson Community College science student Kyle ...
  2010-09-03 10:47:18

• Schools put on 'assistance' list

  MASON CITY — Several North Iowa school districts, includingMason City, have been listed as having schools in need ofassistance (SINA) for the 2010-11 school year for failing to reachproficiency in some grades for reading and math under No Child LeftBehind requirements.
  2010-09-03 07:46:49

• A Q & A with rivals for Baldwin’s House seat

  Two candidates are seeking the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District seat held by Democrat Tammy Baldwin. The district includes all of Columbia County.
  2010-09-03 11:51:22

• Is the grand design finally within our grasp?

  Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: More than a decade ago, British physicist Stephen Hawking said there was a 50-50 chance that a unified "theory of everything" would be discovered within 20 years. Now he explains why he thinks the theory has been found. Stephen Hawking - Physics - Physicist - Alan Boyle - Alternative
  2010-09-03 07:35:35

• Java developer

  Java developerThis is great opportunity for a proactive, articulate individual to work with an up and coming financial trading company.
  2010-09-03 11:48:21

• Tutor jailed for molest

  A MILITARY policeman, moonlighting as a tutor, convinced the mother of a student, to let him sleep over for two nights in 2008. Unknown to her, Kittredge Chan Lead Whye was a paedophile and used the opportunity to fondle the boy's private parts on both nights, before masturbating in front of the nine-year-old.
  2010-09-03 08:59:15

• S.C. to get grant for education testing overhaul

  South Carolina is part of two groups of states that are getting $330 million in federal grants over the next four years to develop a new generation of tests, according to a news release by the S.C. Department of Education.
  2010-09-03 09:04:37

• DuBridge Distinguished Lecture: A Conversation with Charlie Munger

  Charles Munger presented the Institute's 2008 DuBridge Distinguished Lecture in Beckman Auditorium on March 11. Munger, the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a business partner of Warren Buffett, and one of the richest people in the United States, was joined in conversation by Caltech's Tom Tombrello, chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, and Kenan Professor and ...
  2010-09-03 11:11:20

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