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Kentucky schools are improving too slowly, according to an analysis of state test scores released today by three statewide groups. The analysis, presented in a "Transition Index Report," was developed by the Council for Better Education, the Kentucky ...
2009-09-23 11:15:00
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Five years ago, Creston students taking the ACT college entrance exam performed higher than the state average in composite scores, 23.0 to 22.0. Creston students taking the test in 2009 had a composite score of 21.7, while the state average was 22.4 ...
2009-09-23 12:12:00
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Agent-based models (ABMs) are powerful computer-simulation modeling techniques that used increasingly to understand a broad range of biological phenomena, such as tumor growth, the immune system, and the spread of infectious diseases through a ...
2009-09-23 02:56:00
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Nineteen McGill University researchers exploring issues from biomaterials to global climate change to advanced mathematics are among the 181 newly appointed or renewed Canada Research Chairs announced September 23 by the Honourable Gary Goodyear ...
2009-09-23 02:42:00
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Afghanistan's election commission has been discussing with the U.N.-backed ECC how to carry out the recount it ordered as quickly as possible to avoid postponment of a run-off. Western diplomats say putting off a second round until next year could ...
2009-09-23 12:40:00
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With the release of province-wide testing results by the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), the Northwest Catholic District School Board is celebrating the continued improvement with its scores. “We’re very, very happy with the ...
2009-09-23 01:23:00
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The Southern Cultural Heritage Center will host an Oct. 2 performance by students of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. If you go The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science Stage Band and Choir will perform at the Southern ...
2009-09-23 01:09:00
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At an MAA Congressional briefing on September 22, 2009, mathematics educators called for greater Federal funding to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and mathematics--and thus keep the nation ...
2009-09-23 01:38:00
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Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem on congruent numbers. The advance, which included work by David Harvey, an assistant professor at New ...
2009-09-23 12:05:00
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The principals of La Salle’s two public elementary schools reported relatively good news regarding their students’ adequate yearly progress results. Lincoln Junior High School students managed to meet the federal 70 percent passing rate in both ...
2009-09-23 05:17:00
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Phyllis Danley Kunze, long-time CEO of the East Central Credit Union in Ada, has been named executive director of the East Central University Foundation Inc. Kunze will oversee the foundation’s approximately $20 million in assets and its ...
2009-09-23 07:40:00
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FRANKFORT — Accountability testing results released today show fewer of Kentucky’s schools improved adequately under state and federal requirements. A rise in reading and mathematics goals may have been a factor, Kentucky Department of Education ...
2009-09-23 05:02:00
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Cape district officials say information expected to be released this fall could help the district upgrade its mathematics curriculum. As more Cape eighth-graders take Algebra 1, the district is considering an overhaul of its math curriculum. Michael ...
2009-09-23 07:18:00
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Professor of Applied Mathematics Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter J. Huybers, and Rebecca D. Onie ’98-’97, co-founder and CEO of Project HEALTH, will be awarded a $500,000 grant, which can be ...
2009-09-23 07:33:00
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St. Paul, Minn. — A mathematician who's spent years analyzing voting systems told a Minneapolis audience Tuesday that instant runoff voting is not the answer. IRV allows voters to rank the candidates for a given office in order of preference ...
2009-09-23 07:18:00
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