A Cornell University study provides new evidence that curriculum-based external exit exams not only enhanced student achievement, but also increased the earnings of graduating seniors who took them.. It also showed that students who took remedial or basic courses earned less than their peers who enrolled in more challenging courses.
John Hope Franklin, a founding father of African-American history and the head of President Clinton's national advisory board on race, will deliver the keynote address and be awarded an honorary doctorate when Occidental College celebrates Commencement 1998 in the historic Remsen Bird Hillside Theater on Sunday, May 10, at 3 p.m.
Many WWW surfers are familiar with the "Dancing Baby," a cha-cha-ing toddler created by 3-D computer animation. But a Williams College junior has taken the Dancing Baby to a whole new level--the virtual jukebox. Although the baby isn't his, its musical incorporation into the student's Web site has brought him unforeseen acclaim.
A new educational software program developed at Purdue University is making it easier than ever for teachers to put the power of the Internet to work in their classrooms. Test Pilot is a new application that allows teachers to design surveys, tests and tutorials that students can take on any computer that is connected to the Internet.
Betty Friedan will join the Cornell University faculty as a distinguished visiting professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations to direct a $1 million, four-year project, New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy," at the Institute for Women and Work that will attempt to transform the feminist ideals and practices she catalyzed more than 30 years ago into a broader societal and workplace agenda for the new century.
Too many young academically talented female students are being discouraged from taking higher math and science classes, limiting a group of future leaders, says a Ball State University educator.
For college recruiters and admissions directors, the Internet's "killer application" may not be the World Wide Web or online application forms, but instant messaging programs that allow recruiters to engage in one-on-one Internet chats with potential students.
While summer is a "no-brainer" for many students, one Purdue expert says the break is a good time to groom your mind for college. "Summer is the best time to find ways to set yourself apart from other college applicants," says Doug Christiansen, Purdue's director of admissions. "The opportunities are endless. Students can pick up new skills, improve existing talents, explore possible career paths or work on deficiencies.
Inspired by a glaring void in a growing academic field, doctoral students from four colleges at North Carolina State University have launched the first online research journal devoted to the role of technology in middle school education.
Teams of science students from around the nation will compete for an all-expense-paid learning trip to Portugal after advancing to the finals of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.
Thirty years ago, child psychiatrist James Comer, M.D. at Yale's Child Study Center developed a comprehensive strategy to improve schools. Now, First Lady Hillary Clinton, a long-time supporter of his work, will address a symposium, Child Development: The Foundation of Education, celebrating the program's anniversary.
On Sunday, May 24, Johnnetta B. Cole, the former president of Spelman College and its first African American woman president, will deliver Mount Holyoke College's 161st commencement address.
One Franklin & Marshall professor is finding a way to show her students the mathematical nature of art, and the artistic nature of math. The course, unique to F&M, is not taught anywhere else in the country.
The grand opening today of a new technology education center in the Seattle area marks a milestone for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program.
A Purdue University team is headed to the Air Race Classic for the fifth year in a row as the only all-student collegiate entry. The annual event is a summer cross-country race for female pilots. Two years ago, a Purdue team became the first collegiate team to win the race.
Several inmates from the Allenwood Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Pennsylvania will be at Susquehanna University on April 28 to relate their experiences with white-collar crime to Susquehanna University business majors.
Cornell University and the U.S. Peace Corps will sign a Memorandum of Cooperation later this month, to mark the establishment of a new option at Cornell -- a three-year master's of professional studies degree in agriculture with a Peace Corps service option.
Forecast: Unpredictable. Is the academic climate at many U.S. engineering schools discouraging women as well as minorities from pursuing careers in the field?
Drawing examples from popular culture to explain clinical disorders, two Vanderbilt researchers are using anecdotes from Star Trek movies and episodes to explain the neurological and psychological bases of emotions, perception, aggression, memory and sex.
A recent University of North Texas study of three public elementary schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex indicates that positive teacher attitudes toward information technology result in similar positive attitudes among students.
Sometimes it's difficult to decide who suffers the greater trauma when preschool starts -- the child or the parents. But a Purdue University expert says there are things mom or dad can do to make the adjustment easier for everyone involved
Doug Christiansen, director of Purdue's Office of Admissions, says taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) does not have to be a nerve-racking experience. He offers advice for taking standardized tests.
At the same time top college hoopsters seek the national basketball crown this month, more than 700 of their fellow collegians will battle in a competition that's as intense, demanding, and grueling as anything in the NCAAs. For four days, from March 20 to 23, the forensic version of March Madness comes to the University of Rochester in western New York. Two-person rather than five-man teams will advance through eight preliminary debates and seven elimination rounds in their quest to be named the top college debaters in the country.
A new honors program in engineering and law, the only such program in the U.S., is being launched at Northwestern University. The program offers high school seniors conditional acceptance into law school and completion of their undergraduate studies a year early.
National Science Foundation (NSF) director Neal Lane will speak on Saturday, March 14, 1998, at a conference on "The Integral Role of the Two-year College in the Science and Mathematics Preparation of Prospective Teachers."
A small group of Temple University criminal justice majors is exploring issues of crime and justice with prison inmates in a college seminar held at a Philadelphia jail. "The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: Exploring Issues of Crime and Justice Behind the Walls" may be the first experience of its kind in the country.
The University of Southern California Sea Grant program has designed a new Website to help school teachers catch the wave of interest in El NiÃ’o and is sponsoring an on-line educational seminar beginning next week to help promote better understanding of this powerful weather phenomenon.
Today's teen-agers may be designing the next generation of fishing poles. Or waterproof baseballs.
The financial value of a higher education increased in the mid-1990s but the dollar value of a high school diploma or less dropped by 8 percent. The new analysis shows the earnings gap between families headed by college graduates and families headed by high school graduates widened significantly.
The National Science Board (NSB) urges a reexamination of the federal/university partnership, and offers several recommendations for improvement, in a policy paper released today titled "The Federal Role in Science and Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Education."
The academic environment's influence on schoolchildren's attitudes about cheating and the value of homework are examined in two studies to be published in the March issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Educational Psychology.
Gallaudet University (Washington D.C.), the world's only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the student protest that shut down the campus in 1988 and led to significant changes in the way Americans with disabilities are treated. The event called "Deaf President Now" (DPN) will be celebrated with speeches, panel sessions, and events culminating in a student march to Capitol Hill on March 11.
The inventor of a piece of software embraced by Hollywood special-effects wizards in over 200 films is sharing his expertise in a new computer graphics course he is teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The news is not good regarding the performance of U.S. 12th graders in math and science in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
Each year since 1984, the Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students, sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company since 1990, gives 35 outstanding students grants to conduct biomedical research. The program provides the fellows with mentors to help them complete medical school and encourage them to pursue careers in academia and medical research.
With a $6 million National Science Foundation grant and a group of researchers and educators from the University of Missouri-Columbia, middle- school students across the nation may soon be learning more mathematics and learning it better than before.
A college education is designed to broaden minds and expand critical thinking, but it also should teach us how to better monitor what we say. This is especially true on the job, where a conversation about a popular television show can move very quickly from around the water cooler to a court of law.
"Alcohol and Drugs on American College Campuses: Issues of Violence and Harassment," a report published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), is being mailed this week to college presidents nationwide. The report is based on surveys from 89,874 students at 171 institutions and describes issues of collegiate violence, harassment and campus climate.
University of Iowa faculty members spend an average of 31.4 hours a week on teaching activities. The study marks the first time that the UI faculty has documented all of its teaching activities, including not only regularly scheduled classes, laboratories and seminars but also time spent preparing for classes, evaluating student assignments, holding office hours, advising students, providing individualized instruction, and working on special projects with honors, masters and doctoral students.
The Internet is revolutionizing the way professors in the humanities teach their students. Prof. Beavers creator of the Exploring Ancient World Cultures Web site, The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia and limited-area search engines Argos and Hippias--has developed a new site called "the 4th Tetralogy." The site provides English translations of Plato's Republic, the Phaedrus, the Symposium and the Phaedo.
Which is the most important factor influencing student performance in mathematics: A good teacher? Innate intelligence? Home environment? Studying hard? They're all important, of course. But differences in how Asians and Americans answer this question help to explain the U.S. disadvantage in math and science achievement.
How much children learn in school depends in good measure on the attitudes and values of the surrounding community -- and on how much those values are shared by the children themselves -- education experts agreed at a AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) symposium today (Feb. 16) in Philadelphia.
Schools interested in attracting involvement from parents and communities can now join a national network focused on the same goal. The National Network of Partnership Schools has been developed by the Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University.
Women still face special roadblocks that discourage many from pursuing careers in engineering and science. A national project, announced Feb. 3, will use the information superhighway to lessen the detours encountered by female college students majoring in engineering and other sciences.
In 1970, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business were among the first in the country to have the opportunity to manage "real-world" equity portfolios. Now UW-Madison students will be among the first to manage a substantial fixed income fund.
It's not every day that a member of a royal family can be found teaching at an American college. But for the first half of February, students at Agnes Scott College will be taught by a Jordanian princess.
Cornell University's Mann Library will digitize the contents of 125 agricultural journals to create The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, or TEEAL, on CD-ROM, to be distributed to university libraries in developing countries.
A Vanderbilt University education professor who has studied the impact of class size on students' learning says a comprehensive plan to improve skills would be a better investment of the nation's resources.
When it comes to homework, quantity does not always equal quality. Dean of Purdue University's School of Education says for young children, 20 minutes to an hour three to four times a week is just about right for homework. Older students in middle school and high school can profit from meaningful assignments in the one- to two-hour range. But Haring stresses that all homework should be meaningful to the child.
Dogs and cats still dominate the patient list at University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine, but they're sharing more space with a new breed of companion critters, from ailing ferrets to sick lizards.
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