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HHMI Bulletin May 2011 |
HHMI Announces $60 Million Competition for Colleges Challenging colleges and universities to think creatively about how they teach science, HHMI has invited 215 undergraduate-focused institutions across the country to apply for a total of $60 million in science education grants. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2008 Rama Ramaswami |
Make It Stretch As technology funding dwindles, districts must use the resources they do have to maximum advantage. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 Susan McLester |
Where's the Money? Four Places to Find Tech Funding We point the way to four distinct areas to take your search. |
T.H.E. Journal March 8, 2010 David Nagel |
i3 Innovation Grant Program Opens The United States Department of Education has released final priorities and opened the application process for the Investing in Innovation Fund, also known as "i3," a $650 million grant program. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
InternetNews January 25, 2011 |
Google Targets Education With New Apps Section Google builds on established partnerships with schools and universities to develop a separate category for education applications in its Apps Marketplace. |
National Defense March 2011 Cynthia D. Miller |
National Science Foundation Supports STEM Education Of equal importance to the foundation is the support of science and engineering education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school and beyond, with a variety of fellowships and programs specifically for teachers and students. |
Information Today July 23, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
E-Rate Connects America's Classrooms, Libraries The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation convened on July 17, 2013 to discuss ways to strengthen E-Rate (E-Rate 2.0: Connecting Every Child to the Transformative Power of Technology). |
T.H.E. Journal April 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Two Plans, One Vision March 10, 2010 was an important day in education technology history. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 |
Awards & Contests Cable in the Classroom (CIC) announced it's second annual Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards... The Council for Corporate and School Partnerships is accepting applications for its National School and Business Partnerships Award... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Follow the Money Federal largesse only goes so far. So to support their technology programs, districts are pursuing funding sources in the state, local, corporate, and taxpayer ranks. |
Financial Advisor January 2012 Jerilyn Klein Bier |
College Crunch Advisors should start asking clients where their kids may want to attend college when the kids are high school freshmen or even in middle school, says Mazareas. There's a lot to talk about. |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2009 Nancy K. Herther |
Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding There are actually many different types of support available to researchers |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
A World of Hurt : Latin America Massive socioeconomic problems have left Latin American education in a dire condition, and decades behind the rest of the globe in integrating technology into teaching and learning. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2001 Sylvia Charp |
Partnerships and Collaborative Learning The power of partnerships and the value of alliances in education have existed for many years. Hardware vendors have been partnering with content providers and users to demonstrate the value of technology in education... |
Registered Rep. October 15, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College at a Discount Next year, a Minnesota-based university will cut its tuition by 33 percent for all its students. Others will likely follow. |
T.H.E. Journal March 5, 2010 David Nagel |
National Ed Tech Plan Advocates Radical Reforms in Schools The U.S. Department of Education released the first public draft of the National Education Technology Plan. The document reveals an intent not only to infuse technology throughout the curriculum, but to implement some major changes to education itself. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
President Ed Tech Following a rough ride with the Bush administration, only one candidate offers the policies and vision that can reinvigorate our industry and help our students gain a foothold on the future. |
T.H.E. Journal March 15, 2010 David Nagel |
Obama's ESEA Blueprint Continues Emphasis on Assessment President Obama has released his new "Blueprint" for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, calling for the transformation of American K-12 education into a "world-class" system. |
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2007 John K. Waters |
Corporate Foundations :: Enterprise to the Rescue! Stepping in where they claim schools are failing to act, leading technology companies are funding endowments to support teaching 21st-century skills to tomorrow's workforce. |
InternetNews April 7, 2009 David Needle |
Teachers Driving Web 2.0 Adoption? A new survey indicates teachers are leading the charge to get more Web 2.0 services into the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal February 18, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
K-12 School To Be Housed at U Arizona Science and Technology Park The district said Vail Academy and High School of Vail, Arizona will be the first in the nation to be housed at a university research park. |
T.H.E. Journal July 28, 2009 David Nagel |
Obama Pushes for Education Reform with $4.35 Billion in Competitive Grants President Barack Obama is calling on states and districts to set higher standards for student achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 |
Drill Down K-12 principals reveal the kinds of tech skills they would like preservice teachers to have upon receiving their credential. |
T.H.E. Journal January 1, 2000 |
Futureperspective - a Vision of Education for the 21st Century The creation and delivery of courses over the Web will be the driving force for educational change in the 21st century. |
Registered Rep. January 23, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 |
Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2004 |
Sun Heats Up the Education World The Sun Technology and Academic Resources (STAR) initiative brings together several programs to reduce the cost and complexity of managing network systems for the education IT community. |
CIO February 17, 2010 Robert Lemos |
Higher Ed, Lower Costs: Colleges Remake Data Centers Driven by more austere state budgets and shrinking endowments, universities and colleges are looking for ways to improve the efficiency of their data centers. For technology vendors, that push could mean big business. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Garrett Dikkers et al. |
A Bridge to Success There is a no man's land between the recognized need for tech-process, and our still-developing sense of best practice and how to leverage this really powerful tool to get kids learning in exciting ways. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Emma Stoye |
EPSRC announces 83.5m boost for PhD training The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will invest an additional 83.5 million pounds this year in doctoral training partnerships in the UK, universities and science minister David Willetts has announced. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Educators Awarded Environmental PD Courses... Microsoft Honors Innovative Educators... Google Offers Free Education Apps... |
Registered Rep. May 20, 2013 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 |
Why India Can't Read and What It Can Do About It The leading private education provider in India is Educomp Solutions. It's a company worth more than $1 billion that has its hands in preschools, grade schools, high schools, colleges and much more. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
T.H.E. Journal November 5, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2008 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 |
Drill Down Students, teachers, parents, and administrators were asked to outfit their ultimate school with one guiding criterion: maximizing achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal September 16, 2009 Patricia Deubel |
Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation District leaders want some evidence that social networking would fulfill their expectation of adding strong educational value and purpose. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Now What? We put the question to a host of K-12 IT leaders: If you had a one-shot chance to spend a big sum of technology money, where would you begin? Here are their shopping lists. |
CRM May 2011 Leonard Klie |
Higher Education Increases Marketing Schools shift focus to generate more inquiries in-house and boost technology investments. |
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 |
Online Education News Nimble Press has launched Grant Wrangler and Grant Wrangler Bulletin to help teachers, principals, and parents find available funding for K-12 schools in the US. |
Registered Rep. September 27, 2010 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College In Four Years, Not Six Before a teenager falls in love with any colleges be sure to check their graduation rates. It could save your clients tens of thousands of dollars. |
BusinessWeek January 13, 2011 |
Teachers' Union Boss Randi Weingarten The president of the American Federation of Teachers on public schools, teacher bonuses, and why unions are so unpopular |
InternetNews July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Lands Cloud Deal With NYC Schools As it continues efforts to entice large, public-sector organizations to sign up for its expanding portfolio of cloud services, Microsoft lands e-mail partnership with New York City schools. |