Increasingly, it takes more than a college degree to get the best jobs. New research by a Swarthmore College economist and a University of Wisconsin colleague shows that "functional literacy" separates the most successful college-educated workers from fellow graduates who take jobs for which a high school diploma used to be sufficient.
With public concern mounting over the cost, length and quality of college education, Western Illinois University has taken the unprecedented step of guaranteeing major components of its education.
Inner city children at the Nativity School in Los Angeles will return from the holiday break to find their depleted library has received 2,250 books. The books were collected and sent to the children by Fairfield University students in Connecticut.
A large number of reports have already discussed the academic and social skills of home-schooled children, but the state of their physical education is not being addressed, according to the co-author of a book and video package for parents who wish to teach their children physical education.
Home schooling spells success for UMBC valedictorian. Straight-A student journalist will speak at commencement
The Streetwise Guide makes calculus palatable by smothering it with outrageous humor. Ranked one, two, or three on the Amazon.com list of calculus bestsellers, the conversational book was authored by matheticians from Williams College and the University of California at Davis.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced the awarding of a three-year grant of $475,000 to the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education to investigate the economic implications of "peer effects," or the notion that the quality of a student's education depends on the quality of fellow students.
Students in Johns Hopkins' Police Executive Leadership Program survey the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg for lessons on modern police leadership.
Students who ask the right question at the University of Richmond can receive one year of free tuition and room and board. That's worth $23,000.
Around this time of year, astronomers are often asked "What was the Star of Bethlehem?" According to an astronomer at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, the short answer is "we aren't sure."
A Purdue University effort is helping young men who father babies also become good dads. "It's My Child, Too," is a parenting curriculum aimed at young, unwed fathers. The goal of the program is for fathers to recognize the important role they play in the lives of their children.
An Iowa State University political science professor has launched a web page design contest to promote knowledge of American government. The contest is offering more than $40,000 in full tuition scholarships to high school and community college students.
The market for new college graduates this year is holding at a very robust hiring rate, according to the 28th annual Recruiting Trends survey conducted by Career Services and Placement at Michigan State University.
The increasing complexity of the American workplace and culture has convinced officials at Prince George's Community College in Maryland that traditional approaches to science and mathematics teaching are no longer adequate to meet the needs of its students. And not just science, math or technology majors.
After a four-year period of flat growth, the total number of foreign students attending U.S. colleges and universities increased 5.1% this year to a total of 481,280 according to the Institute of International Education's Open Doors 1997-98. Numbers of U.S. students studying abroad climbed 11.4%.
Media advisory: A list of the top fifty colleges for African Americans as determined by a survey of 1,077 African American higher education professionals, will be released at a news conference on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has launched the new department of disability and human development, which offers a master's degree program and, in collaboration with two other departments, the nation's first Ph.D. program in disability studies.
The stereotypical engineer is a linear, analytical thinker, but recent research at the University of Missouri-Rolla shows that many engineering students prefer a less linear style of learning.
The McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University doubled the number of Hispanic students in its freshman class this year, highlighting a nationwide trend of greater numbers of Hispanic students pursuing engineering degrees.
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute recently received a Mellon Foundation grant of $375,000 and matching funds of $300,000 from an anonymous donor.
High school students have discovered a previously unidentified celestial object in the Kuiper Belt using images from the National Science Foundation's 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile.
The American Association for Higher Education will host a conference supported by the National Science Foundation on reform efforts in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education in colleges and universities.
Satellite images, 18th century maps and a city plan over 8,000 years old form part of a collection of rare and unusual maps that a professor of history at UIC, has chosen to help high school teachers "tell the story of world history."
Title 1, a federal education program for disadvantaged students, is up for renewal next year. The new issue of the "Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk" examines the latest research on Title 1, including studies demonstrating when the program is effective and when it is not.
Johns Hopkins University will use the largest part of a recent $45 million gift to increase scholarships for next year's freshmen 25 percent and cut their debt at graduation by more than a third.
A technical graphics professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University has found a way to take some of the trepidation out of navigating the school's West Lafayette campus. Using a software program that until recently has been applied almost exclusively to creating animated computer games, James Mohler has designed a two-dimensional, interactive map that allows a "virtual visit" by way of the World Wide Web.
A new resource for community colleges was announced Nov. 11, 1998 at Cornell. The Institute for Community College Development is based at Cornell. Created through collaborative efforts by the State University of New York (SUNY), Cornell and community college presidents, the institute will study educational, social and financial issues of importance to community colleges.
More students will be able to live on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus within two years thanks to the generosity of the Baltimore-based Erickson Foundation, and the gift could change how charitable foundations operate.
Some 30 students from five continents are headed to Bangkok in December, six months after attending a three-week workshop there. In a sense, however, they never left; their training has continued, and their classmates and instructors have been with them since June.
How many dreams have been dashed by the frustration of learning math? How many kids have been made to feel dumb because math, at some point, just stopped making sense?
Nearly three-fourths of history professors are not satisfied with their current level of using technology in their teaching, according to a survey conducted by a DePauw University history prof and executive director of the American Association for History and Computing.
Today's Hamilton College students are taking to swing dancing with the same enthusiasm their great-grandparents exhibited in the 1920s and 30s.
Making sense of rural America's future, as well as its past and present, is the mission of Kenyon College's new Rural Life Center (RLC), which has established itself at Kenyon College to promote education, scholarship, and public projects about rural life. The center debuts at a critical time for Ohio's Knox County, which faces development pressures from metropolitan areas.
Cornell University today (Nov. 3, 1998) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for an exchange of agricultural, nutritional and environmental information, as well as community and rural development knowledge.
Girls remain a step behind boys in their confidence and participation levels in science classrooms, despite a hands-on teaching approach now popular in many science classrooms, according to University of Illinois research.
Studying to become an astronautical engineer may not necessarily launch students into space, but it may very well land them a lucrative career.
Most college classroom cheating is committed by students who see themselves as being forced into the act, says a Ball State University researcher.
The National Science Foundation is awarding eight universities nearly $2.5-million each to significantly increase the number of African American, Hispanic and Native American students receiving doctoral degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.
Carnegie Mellon University and The American Historical Association's Teaching Division will host a conference on Nov. 6-8 about new approaches for teaching history in secondary schools and colleges.
Wells College has reconfigured its long established Henry Wells Scholarship program now guaranteeing eligible students a paid internship of $3,000 during their college career.
Choosing the right MBA program can be a lot like looking for a soul mate: there are a lot of attractive candidates, but it's critical for individuals to find the right match, says a University of Illinois at Chicago business school official.
America can ill-afford to have a substantial segment of its population alienated from earth science, and science in general, according to Vassar College Associate Professor of Geology Jill S. Schneiderman. She will address the Geological Society of America on Wednesday, October 27, in Toronto, Canada.
Approximately 10 research projects aimed at reducing barriers that prevent people with disabilities from full participation in mathematics and science education will be on display Tuesday, October 20, at the National Science Foundation's Exhibit Center in Arlington, Va.
School discipline problems not only affect students' safety and security, they have a clear and substantial negative impact on their academic achievement, says a new study from Educational Testing Service.
Top faculty experts and scholars will address the issue of how to make the undergraduate classroom more friendly for women students in science, mathematics, engineering and technology as part of a Project Kaleidoscope Workshop at DePauw University from Oct. 30-Nov. 1.
Technology education must become more "female-friendly," says a Ball State University educator. His research focuses on identifying obstacles to women in selecting technology education as a career.
Students at Susquehanna University are learning about Jewish culture in a new course, "From Borscht to Bagels" while prison inmates are coming to campus to relate their experiences with white-collar crime to business majors. Roanoke College seniors grabble with the meaning of success in a course by the same name.
As recently as 10 years ago, teachers were able to aim their instruction at the average child in a classroom with a reasonable assurance that the other students would not suffer. But there is no 'average' student anymore, says a Purdue University education expert.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has named its 1998-1999 U.S. Professors of the Year, in recognition of their extraordinary dedication to teaching, commitment to students, and innovative teaching methods. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) created the U.S. Professors of the Year program in 1981.
Four teachers have returned from the Arctic, and ten more are preparing to go to the Antarctic as part of the Teachers Experiencing the Arctic/Antarctic (TEA) program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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