University of Connecticut educational leadership professor has developed guidelines that will change the way teachers are being evaluated in Connecticut and Louisiana. Teachers in both states will be evaluated on improving aspects of teaching that strengthen or enhance students' learning in some way.
Smith College to launch unprecedented 'universal' internship program, enabling every student to afford at least one significant early career experience.
Thanks to a grant of $1.6 million, Michigan State University undergraduate students will have the opportunity to spend their college careers learning first-hand the art of science in the laboratories where the work is being done.
A comprehensive University of Illinois program geared for the education of undergraduate students in the life sciences and fostering community outreach has received a $1.6 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
A new joint venture of Smith College and Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering promises to put more women in the engineering pipeline.
Teachers Encouraging a Love for Literature, a Purdue University program, includes teachers, librarians, authors, illustrators and academics who hope to create a generation of readers by putting the people who create children's books into the classroom.
President Clinton at a ceremony in the White House announced ten individuals and eight institutions as recipients of the 1998 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, a three-year-old award administered and funded through the National Science Foundation.
While kids are struggling with subjects such as math or history this fall, some of their parents may be wishing they just knew more about being a parent. Answers are close at hand through the National Parent Information Network.
"Works and plays well with others," that seemingly minor item on many a kindergarten report card, may be much more important to a child's academic success than many parents realize, a University of Illinois professor of educational psychology says.
On September 10, Mount Holyoke College professor of chemistry Sheila E. Browne will receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at the White House from President Clinton.
The Conference Board's Business Cycle Indicators database -- which includes the Leading Economic Indicators that are among the most widely-watched barometers of future economic trends -- is now available to students using two prominent undergraduate economic textbooks.
An award-winning program to curb schools of crawling critters makes the health and safety of students its primary goal. School Integrated Pest Management makes everone an "exterminator" and reduces the need for pesticide sprays.
1.Are school uniforms a good idea? 2.Concussions and high school athletes. 3. Block scheduling. 4. Parents and the morning rush. 5. Head lice
Vassar College has been named College of the Year by the editors of the 1999 edition of "The Best College for You," a co-publication of TIME Magazine and The Princeton Review.
A CD-ROM produced by students at Johns Hopkins University will help learners better explore Ibsen's "A Doll's House," with side-by-side video clips of different actors interpreting the key characters, scripts, commentaries and background material.
This fall, Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will require all incoming students to create and maintain a personal Web page--an "electronic portfolio" which will serve as an intellectual archive of students' undergraduate achievements.
A unique instructional laboratory allows students anywhere in the world to experiment with real circuit elements--not simulations--through a web-based application. Its developer says he was motivated in part by students' being turned off by experiences with faulty equipment.
In addition to receiving a copy of the student handbook to guide their behavior on campus, first-year students at Hamilton College will receive 110 "Rules of Civility," written by George Washington when he was 14.
Following a year of research and conversations with legislators and policy makers, nine students added their voices to the scientific literacy debate, addressing the global science community with an editorial in SCIENCE. "This is the first time undergraduates have ever authored an editorial there," said Jane Maienschein, the group's co-author.
When is early academic intervention not too late? Can a parent ever be too involved in their child's education? How are talented students identified, and how do you best keep them academically engaged? The Johns Hopkins University education faculty has K-12 back-to-school tips.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- More than 2,000 new students are expected to take "virtual" tours of the University of Iowa while learning how to navigate the World Wide Web, set up their own websites, and use other communications technology this fall in a new, interactive orientation course.
The start of a new school year can be a time of eager anticipation or high anxiety for an elementary school student. "Young children can worry about getting lost in their school building, about their parents being available during the school day, or whether there will be someone who wants to play with them at recess," explains Douglas Powell, head of the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University.
Many students across the country, including some 3,000 students enrolled at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., are part of a growing number taking courses through distance learning, either via satellite, the Internet or through online courses.
Liberal arts students at Albion College in Michigan can add a new "liberal art" to the traditional reading, writing and arithmetic this fall: geographic information systems, or GIS.
Recruiters at the University of Missouri-Rolla are using instant messaging chat programs such as ICQ and America Online's Instant Messenger to recruit students over the Internet.
Network marketing is one of the hottest ways for small home businesses to expand their customer base exponentially. Now this concept has been brought to education, with an innovative program in Mississippi providing resources for public school teachers.
The final few weeks of summer break are the ideal time for parents to help their children prepare for the upcoming school year, according to the dean of Purdue's School of Education. "Parents can guide activities now that will make the classroom more enjoyable and a richer learning experience this fall," says Marilyn Haring, who also is a professor of counseling and development.
Advocates for school vouchers increasingly point to the system of direct student aid in higher education as proof of the benefits that vouchers can bring in K-12 education. But the student-aid system is "not as successful as they would like to think, or want us to believe," says a professor of higher education at the University of Illinois.
A budding high school composer sent "The Complete Squirrel" over the Internet to his University of Illinois student-mentor. The pair was brought together earlier this year to participate in Network for Technology, Composing and Music Mentoring, or NETCOMM, a pilot program designed to promote the teaching and learning of technology-based music composition.
Started after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Youth Employment and Development Mentoring Program has provided unique "earn while you learn" opportunities for inner-city juniors, seniors. Integrates mentoring, education, paid employment.
Statement of Peter Likins, President, University of Arizona Regarding Dr. Marguerite Kay: "I have decided to accept the recommendations of The University of Arizona Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (CAFT) and end the employment and affiliation of Dr. Marguerite Kay with The University of Arizona."
Responding to the U.S. twelfth grade student performance on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the NSB made four recommendations for accomplishing this goal in a statement released this week titled "Failing Our Children: Implications for the Third International Mathematics and Science Study."
What used to be called "home economics" is becoming a dynamic career field for secondary school teachers. The curriculum, now known as family and consumer sciences, is taught at both the middle- and high-school level, and there are jobs aplenty for new college graduates nationwide.
To help bridge the widening gap between industry's demand for a diverse, well-trained work force and the available labor supply, the University of Washington's nationally recognized Women in Science & Engineering Center has developed the first comprehensive curriculum for mentoring training in science and engineering.
An Ohio State University class for student athletes who are "retiring" from athletics has shown promise in helping these athletes make the transition from sports to a new career.
Most K-12 students will never see the ocean floor where the Titantic sank. But with educational resources developed by Mississippi State University, they can "see" that and other ocean depths in 3-D real-time images.
Preparing for a career should begin as early as one's freshman year of college, says the director of Vanderbilt University's Career Center. Internships, campus activities, networking/mentoring, learning and researching and self-assessment tests are key factors in building a resume, says Linda Bird, who has been directing the university's career center for 10 years.
Educational Testing Service and Peterson's, both leaders in their worldwide market sectors, have launched their first joint venture.
The best college food services are a far cry from the cafeteria-style dining halls of old. The best ones are tuned into themed specialty food areas, presentation with pizzazz and plenty of variety.
WVU's new forensic identification program continues to make favorable `impression,' gets $5 million boost to upgrade engineering and computer science virtual reality laboratories and to bring the lab facilities on par with FBI crime center labs.
The raunchy reputation of backyard composting is both undeserved and unnecessary, according to waste-management educators at Cornell University who reveal a few tricks of the trade in a new instructional video, "Compost Truth or Consequences."
Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program now offers all assignments and exams electronically via e-mail. It offers 40 course offerings in supermarket, food distribution and convenient store issues.
A Purdue University expert on citizenship education says a revolution is under way in how social studies is taught in American elementary schools. "More and more teachers are starting to introduce students to the world around them with history-based children's literature," says Lynn Nelson, director of Purdue's James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship.
Fireflies are a joy of summer, delightful to look at and fun to catch, but they can also be a great way to help children learn, says a Purdue University professor.
"The take-home message for parents is that adolescent involvement in sports has positive effects on academic performance, but it also increases the likelihood of drinking and drug use," says U-M psychologist Jacquelynne Eccles.
Thirty-four academically elite minority students are taking part in an intense summer challenge program to begin their engineering studies at Northwestern University. The program is called EXCEL because it is designed to challenge minority students to perform at the top of their class from the time they begin their engineering education.
Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has won a $55,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Most Northwestern University engineering graduates pursue further study and many will go on to other careers within a few years of earning their degrees, according to a survey of recent graduates.
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities is helping to identify and preserve state and local historical literature about agriculture and rural life in the period from 1820 to 1945. Cornell University's Mann Library is directing the project, in which land-grant university libraries in 15 states are microfilming the publications.
An unusual anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the high school but in the communities in which the students reside as well. By introducing conflict resolution to the parents of students in addition to students, teachers and school staff, the Peaceable Schools Initiative goes beyond typical school anti-violence efforts such as peer mediation or the formation of student/faculty conflict resolution teams.
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