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Representative Jim Kolbe and Governor Janet Napolitano keynote speakers at University of Arizona commencement.

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Jerry Bruckheimer, film and television producer, is being honored with a doctor of fine arts degree from The University of Arizona College of Fine Arts (CFA) during the UA's Spring 2006 commencement morning ceremony.

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Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, will deliver the commencement address at the Medical College of Georgia May 12 at 2 p.m. in the Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center.

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Acclaimed author Ann Patchett is the speaker for Sarah Lawrence College's 77th Commencement taking place on Westlands lawn on May 19 at 10 a.m. She will address the 296 graduating seniors, 137 graduate students receiving their master's degrees, and their families.

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Kelly McDuffie joined a gang in a Boston ghetto at age 8, then went on to earn two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, retire from a successful career selling automobiles and become a Christian minister. The 60-year-old education major at the University of Mississippi looks forward to graduation May 13 and to the next chapter in his life: teaching in an area in the Mississippi Delta, which he says is "more oppressed and depressed" than the Roxbury ghetto where he spent his childhood.

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As the strains of Pomp and Circumstance are heard across the nation this spring, hundreds of thousands of university graduates will celebrate the completion of their undergraduate degrees as joyous, teary-eyed parents look on. The day after commencement, however, could prompt another round of tears for parents when they learn their newly minted college graduates have no idea what they want to do with their lives.

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Over 200 teachers from across the United States head to the field on Earthwatch sponsored expeditions this summer to share hands-on scientific research experiences with their classrooms.

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A Ball State study reveals that parents' education levels are better predictors of SAT scores, high school GPA and high school class rank than race or income level.

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Students who had block scheduling enjoyed no advantage in college science compared to peers who had traditional class schedules in high school, according to Robert Tai, assistant professor of science education at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. In fact, they performed worse, he said.

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Renowned educational researcher Michael Pressley, in his last public address, urges fellow reading researchers to pursue promising areas of research.

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When it comes to talking about suicide, American avoid the topic much the way they used to skirt talk about sex 20 years ago. But the president of the American Association of Suicidology says the time is long overdue for people to start talking about the problem and to launch suicide awareness and prevention programs in the nation's schools.

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New research attempting to shed light on the evergreen question"”just how do male and female brains differ?"”has found that timing is everything.

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Developed at the UVa's Curry School of Education, "My Teaching Partner," provides teachers with individualized, sustained support through a dynamic interactive Web site. The Web site provides resources and activities that improve children's language and literacy skills and promote social relationships.

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African-American students still tend to make significantly lower scores than their white peers on standardized tests. University of Virginia assistant professor Robert Q. Berry decided to look at what factors help African-American students succeed.

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Boys are not doing well in school, especially in reading. A reading researcher examines the classroom and suggests way to engage preteen and teenage boys in the kind of reading that can improve academic performance.

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In the new book "The No Child Left Behind Legislation: Educational Research and Federal Funding", Cornell University Professor Valerie Reyna asserts that new mandates for scientifically based educational programs will improve education, and other experts challenge her.

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As demand for master's degrees rises, more and more students at Binghamton University, State University of New York, are looking for opportunities to earn graduate degrees quickly.

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Dave Serfling manages a 350-acre crop and livestock farm in Minnesota. On Dec. 16, the full-time farmer will earn the master's he's been working on for 17 years through Iowa State University's distance education program.

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Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician and visiting scholar, uses crocheted models to teach hyperbolic geometry.

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"Just Where Is That Zero-G Room?" will air at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Dec. 6 from NASA's C-9. Better known as the Vomit Comet, NASA's training plane is able to duplicate a zero-gravity environment by taking its passengers on a roller-coaster ride in the sky.

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"America's Most Literate Cities, 2005" ranks 69 largest cities in US on key indicators of literacy. 2005 ed. introduces new indicator to gauge expansion of literacy to online media. Survey reveals extent & quality of "long-term literacy" essential to individual economic success, civic participation, & the quality of life in community & nation.

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With a federal deadline looming at the end of the 2005-2006 school year, all public school teachers will need to be assessed state by state to see if they are "highly qualified" under the definition included in the federal legislation, "No Child Left Behind."

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Ball State University is joining a growing number of news organizations broadcasting news, sports and weather updates on iPods.

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A common stereotype of independent schools-private, non-parochial, K-12 schools-- is that they are extraordinarily wealthy. But those tuition bills alone don't cover the costs, and many independent schools are finding creative ways to bring in new revenue.

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A team of mathematicians at the University of Missouri-Columbia is working to make math classes less intimidating by using a new program that caters to different learning styles. Results indicate that students are more successful and understand the concepts better.

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With an intense focus on acculturation through language learning, its semester-long externships to Washington, D.C. and Beijing and its rigorous programming, the China and Asia-Pacific Studies program is unlike any major at Cornell or anywhere else.

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A simple LEGO building block might help explain what inspires students to learn. So believe researchers at The NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, located in the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University.

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Simple children's plastic building blocks and other familiar objects are teaching high school and college students the intricacies of biotechnology and genomics through an educational model that Purdue University researchers have developed.

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Most analyses of the privatization of education fail to account for the complex nature of schooling. New initiatives are cast in the simple terminology of private versus public, allowing ideologues to sway public opinion with rhetoric instead of evidence.

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A number of Johns Hopkins University faculty members are at the head of the class when it comes to helping education reporters find sources for their stories.

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As students return to school, it is important to have a yearly eye exam, says Bonnie Turner, elementary education instructor at Ball State University.

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Ball State, with its nationally recognized Teachers College and being the alma mater to Garfield's creator Jim Davis, has joined forces with Garfield's creative group, Paws, Inc., and dozens of world-renowned experts in education to launch a FREE Web site overflowing with educational games, activities, instruction, drills and demonstrations.

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The federal No Child Left Behind Act is helping to bring accountability to teachers and schools. But Maryland Education Professor and Associate Dean of Teacher Education Donna Wiseman says there's still a lot of work to bring success for all students this school year.

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Back-to-school heralds opportunities for students to learn, and at the same time, teachers need opportunities to learn, too. Research Points, published by the American Educational Research Association, shows that professional development can aim at increasing student achievement.

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Two scoops of reading in the morning will improve children's literacy says one Ball State University education expert.

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The educational establishment is largely oblivious as to why American schools are poor at educating students, according to Gerald Graff, UIC professor of English and education.

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A new school year is almost upon us - do you know where your education experts are? The University of Maryland's experts have the answers for many of the education issues you are doing stories about - including the No Child Left Behind Act.

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In the smiles of dozens of special needs children, mechanical engineering students and education specialists see the results of a model university program that adds emotion to engineering and technical expertise to early intervention.

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1) Kids can email and IM but can they write an essay? 2) How is the No Child Left Behind plan working? 3) Hand-held computers in K-12, technology in education; 4) The achievement gap and education issues for urban students; 5) The history of education reform.

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Carol Zoref, Writing Coordinator at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., is available for comment on the growing importance of writing in today's world and the need to integrate writing education into the entire curriculum, not just English classes.

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Teachers and parents need to learn new methods to help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, according to a Purdue University educational researcher who pulled together 30 years of research in a new book.

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Wake Forest University professors comment on K-12 educational and parenting issues.

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June 14-17, Northeastern University will host the 14th World Conference on Cooperative Education, a bi-annual conference organized by the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE). This year's conference will focus on the interdependence of education and economic policy development.

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The UAB School of Education will present a three-week program this summer for schoolteachers to gain insight into the civil rights movement and its lasting effect on public education and society.

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Public school teachers converge in Philadelphia, Miss., June 22-24 for the "Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner Living Memorial Civil Rights Education Summit," a landmark event aimed at providing firsthand perspectives on the 1960s civil rights movement for educators.

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Making decisions that yield the educational and economic benefits of a strong athletics program without costs to academic and moral integrity poses a dilemma that can place an institution in the forefront of reform or sabotage its credibility.

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The University of Maine teacher preparation program is the first in the state to require that students working toward Maine certification have a laptop computer and specific educational hardware as part of their tools for learning. Apple iBook is the designated computer and software.

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Education researchers at Johns Hopkins University are available to comment on summer learning loss.

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Although school is almost out for the summer, learning doesn't have to stop, says University of Alabama at Birmingham education expert Charles Calhoun, Ph.D. "Parents can use everyday activities and summertime events to teach math, reading and history.

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U.Va. education student Heather Welch, who graduates on May 22, has some stellar ideas about how best to put her science education to work and drum up interest in the subject among American students. Her work has won her a selective Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellowship, worth about $50,000.