President Bush today announced his intention to nominate eight individuals to serve as Members of the Board of Directors of the National Board of Education Sciences (NBES).
President Bush today announced his intention to nominate eight individuals to serve as Members of the Board of Directors of the National Board of Education Sciences (NBES).
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the appointment of 16 members to the National Technical Advisory Council (NTAC), which Spellings announced as part of the proposed regulations to strengthen No Child Left Behind.
The North Carolina Board of Community Colleges voted on Friday to prevent illegal immigrants from enrolling in the state's 58 community colleges while it commissions a study on the issue.
Two campuses of the Star Technical Institute could be declared ineligible for federal student aid after allegedly breaking a law that requires colleges to obtain at least 10 percent of all revenues from nonfederal sources.
Eight teachers from China and one from Spain were due in Maine's capital Monday to meet with the governor and top education officials before starting their teaching assignments in the state.
Hard times and higher fuel prices will follow kids back to school this fall. Children will walk farther to the bus stop, pay more for lunch, study from old textbooks and wear last year's clothes. Field trips? Forget about it.
Pennsylvania State University has 24 campuses, but no one mentions "University Park" when the Nittany Lions take the field. The University of Michigan disdains any humbling hyphenated reference to Ann Arbor . And The Ohio State University is always known as just that, satellite campuses or not.
A First Amendment battle three MIT students are waging against the MBTA could intensify tomorrow if they have not provided a federal judge with a research paper that outlines flaws in the transit agency's fare-reading apparatus and computer software they created to beat the system.
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Rising college costs are putting the squeeze on family budgets and more people looking to attend college in New Hampshire applied for financial aid this year.
Recent inventions to emerge from the workshop of Zack Anderson include the "Killbot," a radio-controlled robot with a "1,500,000-candlepower spotlight to blind the victim," a bullhorn "to terrify victims," and a spinning drill bit "to bore through obstacles."
College students may have more thoughts of suicide than expected. More than half of 26,000 students from 70 colleges and universities who completed a survey on suicidal experiences reported having at least one episode of suicidal thinking during their lives.
School officials say applications to Maine's universities and community colleges have increased this year due to greater marketing efforts and a flagging economy.
Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans public schools. It also created a rare chance to build a system that might solve the biggest problem in urban education -- how to teach disadvantaged children.
A vague unease whispered through this tiny town in northeastern Iowa, where the rolling hills are a study in vivid colors -- red barns, white clapboard houses, and vibrant green cornfields plowed with almost architectural precision.
Students and faculty at Norwalk Community College plan to step up efforts to force a redesign of a health and science center that would abide by more stringent standards for energy efficiency.
It happens all the time: you're registering a free e-mail account or making a purchase online, when up pops a wavy, multicolored word. The system asks you to retype the word - and you roll your eyes, squint a little, and transcribe. This little test is one of the most successful techniques for making sure the person trying to log ...
Local community college officials and administrators at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell are hoping their schools will be among the first to cash in on the state's promise to pay for capital improvements to the Commonwealth's public institutions of higher education.
Two local state colleges - Bridgewater and Massasoit in Brockton - are planning ambitious building projects after receiving more than $125 million in state funding.
One day the man you married reveals that he wants to become a woman. How do you cope? Anna Moore meets two couples whose relationships have survived the ultimate test - and even flourished.
Connecticut's nursing shortage could reach crisis proportions if more education programs and funds are not made available in the next few years, according to health care advocates.
"Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home. The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air. Sleek and white, their long propeller blades rotate in formation, like some otherworldly dance of spindly-armed aliens swaying across the land.
Laury Gutiérrez has spent the last 16 years rescuing female composers from oblivion. Take the Parisian Julie Pinel, for example. Her passionate airs, written during the early 1700s, had been consigned to archives - and Pinel herself had been mostly forgotten - until Gutiérrez noticed her name in a 1986 book about female Baroque composers.
When Liane Brandon began teaching film to Quincy junior high schools students in 1966, she had to borrow a 16mm camera from the football team - the only group on campus with access to a camera, which it used to record games.
Student enrollment is falling in the state's most heavily Hispanic school district. Student numbers are down by more than 400 in Central Falls, and school officials aren't sure why -- or whether the numbers will change before schools open.
Lamb tikka masala, pork pot stickers, and halal-certified meals have cropped up on dining hall menus. Cable channels stream soap operas, sports, and news in Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, and Italian into dorm rooms. Students organize soccer and cricket tournaments, with teams split by nationalities.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A teenager's free-speech lawsuit against a school dress code that banned Confederate flag clothing ended in a mistrial yesterday when a jury in federal court failed to reach a verdict.
Would you like to know your clinker from your carvel and your inwales from your thwart risers? Then the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy may be the place for you. Sophie Campbell cracks open the champagne with the graduates of 2008.
A tiny Texas district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings when classes begin this month, provided the gun-toting employees follow certain requirements.
A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.
Lawmakers and college administrators are trying to shut paroled sex offenders out of one of the few places they can still live: Student neighborhoods near major U.S. universities.
To Amy Hobbs Harris, a dozen jars of strawberry preserves are worth $391 -- the amount she estimates she'll save in a year by canning the fruit herself.
To Amy Hobbs Harris, a dozen jars of strawberry preserves are worth $391 -- the amount she estimates she'll save in a year by canning the fruit herself.
The publisher of the Arden Shakespeare collection has offered no public explanation, but the dismissed scholar says the reason given was a missed deadline.
A tenured faculty member at Arizona State University who was fired last year for allegedly plagiarizing course syllabi claims that her dismissal was discriminatory and racist.
University of California officials urged state lawmakers on Thursday to approve a bill that would seek to prevent animal-rights protesters from distributing the photographs and home addresses of university researchers.
The family of a gay teenager who was fatally shot in class blames the school district for allowing their son to wear makeup and feminine clothing to school -- factors the family claims led to the death.
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors as part of the company's deal to ward off a proxy fight with billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
Kelly Johnson snips pieces from a blood-stained, blue-striped shirt, then swabs the neck and armpits for sweat. Down the hall, Samantha Glass watches as a chemical reaction reveals a fingerprint on a juice bottle.
Provides factual descriptions of the world's independent states, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Learn about the people, history, government, political conditions, economy, geography, and foreign relations of China, Georgia, Pakistan, Russia, and some 200 other nations and areas of special sovereignty. Descriptions are regularly updated. (Department of State)
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STONEWALL - Near the Pedernales River, a statue of Lyndon Baines Johnson stands, pointing in perpetuity to the ranchland on the opposite bank where he was born, where he died, and where he is buried.
Three college students who discovered a way to hack into the Boston subway system's payment cards and add hundreds of dollars in value to them were ordered again Thursday to keep details of their findings secret.
The Constitution, U.S. government, international relations, nations of the world, pivotal moments in U.S. history, early childhood education, calculator-controlled robots, and polar sciences are topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find.
GLOUCESTER - Residents in this seaside fishing city responded wearily yesterday to news of the abrupt resignation of the man who drew worldwide media attention to his community when he said in June that teenagers in his school had a pact to get pregnant.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tommy DeFoe wore his Southern pride on his Confederate flag belt buckle yesterday as he argued in federal court that a school dress code banning such items violated his free speech rights.
Like almost everything else, school lunch costs are on the rise. This fall, students in the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District will pay 10 cents more per carton of milk, with the price going from 40 cents to 50 cents. The price of school lunches will go up as well, according to regional School Committee chairman Gordon Luciano. The school district ...
Last week, the Lawrence School Committee appeared ready to amend the district's much-publicized policy on school uniforms, to allow high schoolers to wear khaki shorts in the springtime.
"ACT scores for the Class of 2008 have remained largely steady, which is encouraging given that the number of test-takers has expanded rapidly to include many more students than ever before....
Tommy DeFoe wore his Southern pride on his Confederate flag belt buckle Wednesday as he argued in federal court that a school dress code banning such items violated his free speech rights.
The story has all the ingredients for a good conspiracy theory: a killer germ created in a secret government lab, a government on the brink of war, a murder investigation with unanswered questions, and a suspect who committed suicide before he could be charged.
Never mind four years of tuition -- the college selection process alone has gotten so expensive that parents need a budget just to deal with campus visits and other costs.
Secretary Spellings announced the appointment of 16 members to the National Technical Advisory Council (NTAC), which Spellings announced as part of the proposed regulations to strengthen No Child Left Behind.
Two tenured faculty members at the University of Missouri at Kansas City have agreed to resign to avoid disciplinary action, one year after the university paid $1.1-million to settle a lawsuit alleging rampant sexual harassment by those professors.
The average score of 2008 high-school graduates who took the examination dropped slightly as the number of test takers grew, ending a recent trend of scores gradually increasing, according to a report to be released today by ACT Inc.
The focus of state high-school exit examinations is shifting from measuring basic skills to determining whether students have mastered the content of specific courses, says a new report by the Center on Education Policy.
Higher-education institutions and the federal government are doing too little to ensure that college students graduate, several public-policy analysts argued on Tuesday at a forum sponsored by the Center for American Progress.
Jesse Ray Beard is not returning to Jena High School this school year. Attorney David Utter says the youngest of the Jena Six defendants will attend school in Connecticut.
Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam dipped slightly for the high school class of 2008 as the number of students taking the exam jumped by 9 percent compared to last year.
A high school principal who set off a furor after being quoted as saying that teenage girls formed a pact to get pregnant has resigned, weeks after his comments were publicly questioned by the mayor.
South Koreans say their obsession to get their children into top-notch universities is nothing short of 鈥渁 war鈥 and are turning to intense, regimented campuses.
A former Tufts University official accused of stealing about $600,000 from his employer used the money for trips to Paris, Montreal, New York, and Las Vegas and to buy luxury goods from places such as Gucci , Tiffany, and Louis Vuitton, prosecutors said yesterday.
Gloucester High School principal Joseph Sullivan, who drew worldwide media attention to his community when he told a reporter in June that a number of teenagers in his school had a pact to get pregnant, abruptly resigned yesterday.
A high school principal who set off a furor after being quoted as saying that teenage girls formed a pact to get pregnant has resigned, weeks after his comments were publicly questioned by the mayor.
The Gloucester High School principal who set off a furor after being quoted as saying that teenage girls formed a pact to get pregnant has resigned, weeks after his comments were publicly questioned by the mayor.
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