Gates Foundation gives $5M to Columbia University The Business Review | The has awarded $5 million to the Teachers College at to help identify the most productive investments for the foundation’s Postsecondary Success initiative. | The three-year grant will go to the college’s Community College Research Center, which will combine existing studies with its ...
LEAP picks netbooks for Kittrell project Nashville Tennessean | Rutherford LEAP has selected the Lenovo IdeaPad S10e netbook for use in its pilot program at Kittrell School in Rutherford County. | With investments from individual contributors, businesses and foundation grants, the group purchased 70 computers for the upcoming school year to help students acros...
Myanmar students seek hope abroad College generation moves away from political activism The Oklahoman Comments 0 | YANGON, Myanmar — Armed with a law degree from the University of East Yangon, 22-year-old Win is clear-eyed about his job prospects: Practically speaking, there are none. For him, the future lies overseas. | In this June 3, 2009 ph...
Can chem prof succeed in mission to guide war-weary veterans back to college? Newsday | In this March 5, 2009 photo, veteran John Merritt checks the progress of an experiment in a chemistry lab at Cleveland State University in Cleveland. Merritt participates in the university's Supportive Education for the Returning Veteran program th...
National Open Varsity Matriculates 2,000 Students This Day Two thousand students were yesterday in Lagos formerly admitted into the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) for the 2008/2009 academic session. | The Matriculation ceremony, the fourthin the series, was conducted simultaneously nationwide at ...
Can chem prof succeed in mission to guide war-weary veterans back to college? Star Tribune | CLEVELAND - John Schupp pulled his car onto a country road lined with half-grown corn. Dark clouds obscured the sun, and he couldn't tell which way pointed east or west. Thunder rumbled in the distance. | He was lost. | But he reminded himself of w...
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Pupils drive car in school corridors Belfast Telegraph | Footage showing the crazy exploits of two sixth-formers who drove their cars along school corridors for an end of term prank has been posted on the internet. | The two 18-year-ol...
Schools out for swine flu, but Hong Kong teachers stay online The Daily Tribune | FEATURE | 06/21/2009 | HONG KONG — The closure of dozens of Hong Kong schools to try to halt the spread of swine flu has kept thousands of children at home, but new technology ha...
Nine California Students Awarded Verizon Foundation Scholarships The Examiner Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE | THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (Map) - Since 2001, Children of Verizon Employees Have Benefited From More Than $36 Million in Scho...
College students take on 20-year-old case The Examiner Comments COLUMBIA, Mo. (Map, News) - Columbia police are hoping some college students might help break a 20-year-old murder mystery. | The investigation has stalled in the murder of Carolyn Williams, who was stabbed to death in her Columbai home on J...
State offers free online job training, education The Providence Journal | The state is providing free online job training and remedial education courses through its netWORKri career centers, which are run by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training. | Those who require remedial help in math, reading and language...
Ex-Owens V.P. went to college at 30 Toledo Blade FOSTORIA - Ann Harrold-Doering-Jones, who began college at 30 and became a vice president of what is now Owens Community College, died Tuesday at the Fostoria home of her daughter and son-in-law, Candy and Jeff Floriana. | She was 78 and had chronic ...
Keep kids safe online this summer Arab News | Molouk Y. Ba-Isa I Arab News | ALKHOBAR: Summer weather has the Kingdom in its grip. With the terrible heat outdoors, kids are turning to online activities for amusement. There's a lot of fun to be had online but danger is lurking there too. Parents and children need to know how to stay safe in the virtual world. Comcast and McAfee have create...
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"Dangerous World of Butterflies": A threatened universe of dazzling creatures Seattle Times | "The Dangerous World of Butterflies - The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors and Conservationists" | by Peter Laufer | Lyons Press, 271 pp., $24.95 | Award-winning journalist and radio host Peter Laufer has tackled many sobering subjects - war and neo-Nazism, to name two. One evening after a reading, an audience member asked the inevit...
