Life News (Education)

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The March 3, 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring public schools to pay for one-to-one nursing care to some disabled students will benefit the disabled nationwide, says a University of Iowa law professor and leading American with Disabilities Act expert.

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Nationwide, millions of students and parents planning college-campus tours this spring may do well to heed a few key pointers, compiled by top University of Delaware officials.

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The Cornell Early Childhood Music Project at the childcare center at Cornell uses chants, musical playground, instruments from around the world and other unique approaches to focus on music for enhancing brain development.

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New research by a University of Georgia sociologist focuses on the problem of out-of-field teaching -- teachers assigned to teach subjects for which they have little education or training. He found that the most common assumptions about the causes of the problem are largely untrue and that proposed solutions may, in fact, cause more harm than good.

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Recruiting underrepresented minorities to science and engineering graduate schools and ensuring they complete advanced degree work is a critical issue facing U.S. educators today, say scholars who will focus on the isssue at a conference at Rice University March 11-12.

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District of Columbia teachers now have a unique opportunity for professional development and graduate credit through Western Illinois University's College of Education and Human Services.

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Instead of the traditional sojourn south for spring break, a group of students at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, will head north, to the Chic Choc Mountains of eastern Quebec for deep-snow backcountry skiing.

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Isaac Newton's mathematical method shaped the course of modern science, but his works are rarely read today--except by all students at St. John's College, where a conference devoted to his thought is scheduled for March 19-21.

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Hendrix College will receive a $2.8 million gift from Acxiom Corporation and its company leader to help build the Charles D. Morgan Center for Physical Sciences for the departments of chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and physics.

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Middle school students maintain a significantly better seated posture at adjustable computer workstations than at desktop workstations. Yet, the students were still seated in potentially at risk positions for musculoskeletal problems.

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Most colleges and universities eliminated their honor codes during the 1960s. Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi is going against that trend. It adopted an honor code at the request of its student body in 1994.

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Students at some liberal colleges must pass a comprehensive examination in their major field of study before receiving their degree. Other liberal arts colleges are testing their graduates for technological proficiency

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The Federal Aviation Administration is uniting with Purdue and a dozen other universities to head off a looming shortage of air traffic controllers. Anticipating the necessity of training thousdands of recruits within a short time, the FAA turned to universities to determine which had programs already in place that meet the government agency's pretraining requirements.

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Webster University announced today that it will open a new 50-acre residential campus in Thailand next fall. The new campus will be Webster's seventh international campus and the first operated by a four-year American university in Thailand.

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After 20 years of sporadic research, a UGA professor has identified the author of a fragment of Atlanta's Civil War history. His book "Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta" traces the lives of Vermont native Cyrena Bailey Stone and her family who clandestinely but comfortably lived in the South.

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Johns Hopkins University announces program offering $10,000 research grants to undergraduates, enabling students to get hands-on experience in demanding, graduate-level research projects.

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The National Science Foundation is unveiling an innovative $7.5-million educational program that will enable talented graduate students and advanced undergraduates to serve as teaching fellows in K-12 science, mathematics and technology-based education.

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The Purdue University Network Computing Hubs, or PUNCH, provide access to research-grade computer simulation laboratories. From almost anywhere in the world, students and researchers can use the World Wide Web to access these computer tools that typically are unavailable commercially.

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A $402,000 link-to-learn grant from Pennsylvania's Dept. of Education will fund Temple University's Literacy Improvement through Technology project to increase teachers' proficiency in using technolgy as a tool for teaching language arts.

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A school reform model based on the "Cultural Literacy" ideas of E.D. Hirsch fares well in its first comprehensive, nationwide evaluation.

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The International Center at the University of California, San Diego sent a record 606 students abroad last year, surpassing any other UC campus. UCSD ranks fifth among U.S. institutions in the number of international scholars hosted during 1997-98.

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A new program housed in the Vanderbilt-Bill Wilkerson Center and the Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development at Vanderbilt University helps children who lag behind their peers in talking.

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Engineering has trailed other professions in attracting women into its ranks. Women now account for a quarter of physicians and lawyers, but only about one in 10 engineers. Now in its 30th year, a career workshop at Northwestern University encourages girls to consider engineering in their education and career choi

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The Internet has revolutionized continuing education for working professionals, especially social studies teachers.

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Most schoolchildren have at least an annual relationship with museums: their end-of-the-year class field trip. For some Illinois children, that relationship is about to intensify, and eventually the same will be true for kids around the country.

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President Clinton today awarded 20 National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported researchers, including nine women and three minorities, with the 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

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Babson College announces the rollout of the QuestGen Assessment System. The online software system, allows college students to assess and improve their academic skills.

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While most college presidents across the nation are announcing their annual tuition price hikes to increase revenue, the C.E.O. of one small college in the hills of southern Vermont is doing just the opposite. Marlboro College's president announced an 8% decrease in tuition, allowing students to save more than $6,000 off of the price of their bachelor's degree.

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The National Science Foundation will host a ceremony at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Va., to honor the 20 NSF recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

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A well-known philanthropist, a Nobel laureate and leading culture critics will be among the many scholars and other experts who will participate in a major symposium on the future of the liberal arts college to be hosted by Trinity College on Feb 22-23.

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A living document of the black experience in America, the second edition of The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture traces critical periods in African American life with charts, maps, text and photographs in color and black-and-white.

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A new CD-ROM produced by Ball State University is the long-awaited response to help alleviate the growing problem of cheating among college students.

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Blind students throughout the country now have access to inexpensive instructional tactile materials thanks to a new Purdue University Web site. TAEVIS Online is an electronic library containing more than 2,500 tactile diagrams from college-level course material such as graphs, chemical structures and biological drawings

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St. John's University's Psychology Department is offering a doctoral program in School Psychology.

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Looking for a way to boost your child's interest in reading? Experts say something as old as the human voice and as new as cyberspace may help.

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Logic would suggest that students who struggle most in the classroom would ask most for help. Instead, they are often the most reluctant, says a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois.

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A fledgling university partnership that seeks to build racial understanding has produced some heated classroom exchanges but also some eye-opening discussion between students from different backgrounds. The unique partnership, called "Building Community Through Technology," links students from Central Michigan University, a predominantly white university, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a historically black institution.

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The University of California, San Diego has received an $863,000 grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to fund a groundbreaking new civic effort that will initiate a new dialogue between UCSD faculty and the San Diego community, with the aim of better integrating the university's research and teaching expertise with community needs and interests.

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Kids in elementary school are being put at risk by computer workstations that have been designed with little or no regard for children's musculoskeletal health, according to a Cornell University study.

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A historian of technology who has studied the automobile, Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex has now turned his attention to what he calls the "Eighth Wonder of the Modern World:" Las Vegas. And he's scheduled a field trip for his students.

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An associate professor of social medicine and history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named one of 10 international recipients of a $1 million James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship.

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The National Science Foundation honored 338 outstanding new science and engineering faculty members nationwide in fiscal year 1998 with Faculty Early Career Development awards totaling approximately $80 million.

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At Holman Correctional Facility, just north of the Florida panhandle in Atmore, Ala., Jeffrey Day Rieber waits to die - but some University of Wisconsin-Madison law students and their law professor are laboring to prevent his death.

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Tunnel-vision teaching and traditional testing methods are multiplying the problem of students who "can't do math." One of this country's leading mathematics educators has a formula for solving the problem: broaden the definition of what constitutes good mathematical skills and create new ways to measure them.

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A New TV advertising campaign uses the national reputation of Temple University's men's basketball team to tout its academic 'stars." The spots feature Temple Honors students racing onto the floor of The Apollo of Temple while courtside announcers give their 'stats'--GPA's and academic achievements.

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On Thursday, Jan. 21, science students at two Indiana schools will communicate live via internet with a Purdue University researcher, who is on a scientific expedition to a dinosaur site in southwest China.

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January terms offered at many colleges tend to lack academic substance and could hardly be called rigorous. The field excursion that anthropologist Susan Niles will lead to the jungles of Guatemala is a notable exception to this trend.

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As the NASDAQ hit another record high today, the Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies released its latest survey on engineering degrees, which reveals that the number of students receiving bachelor's of science degrees in engineering in the United States has fallen to a 17-year low.

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Nation's Most Highly Honored Young Researchers/Teachers Convene In Washington

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High-school-age persons who enroll in driver education courses do not have fewer motor-vehicle-related violations, crashes, or deaths than those who do not, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.