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The Motley Fool October 4, 2004 Dayana Yochim |
Advice for College Freshmen A mathematics professor expounds on life after high school. |
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 February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
Chemistry World May 21, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
To lecture or not to lecture? A meta analysis has shown that there are better ways to teach science to college students than lectures. |
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie |
IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Mind the Gap The newest Speak Up survey shows a disconnect between student and educator views on learning that must be addressed. |
CRM December 2012 Marshall Lager |
Smarten Up Arm graduates with skills that matter. Studentforce is an extremely clever system built on the Force platform. It is nothing less than a complete educational management system. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Facebook Training Wheels A secured social networking site allows schools to incorporate the technology into academics while preparing students for the perils of online communities. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Tekla S. Perry |
John L. Hennessy: Risk Taker Stanford University's president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online |
Registered Rep. December 19, 2011 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
8 Facts You Didn't Know About the ACT and SAT In honor of test-taking season, here are some valuable statistics to know about the two tests. |
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 July 27, 2010 |
A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2010 Dayana Yochim |
Don't Let College Give You a Money Hangover Tips for students (and parents) on surviving college without a major financial hangover. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 |
Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook. |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Why Banks Paid Millions to Get on Campus A Fed report discloses who paid how much to gain access to college borrowers. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
7 Ways to Cut the Cost of College Why pay hundreds or thousands when you could be saving that money instead? |
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding |
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
National Defense August 2010 Cynthia D. Miller |
Classroom Perspective: Teachers Speak Out About STEM Three science, technology, mathematics and engineering teachers in different education systems talk about their efforts to attract students to these fields. |
CRM May 2014 Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
Registered Rep. February 23, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Helping Parents Deal with College Stress The number of parents who express concern about getting their kids into college is almost as many as those who worry about paying the tab. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson |
Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research. |
InternetNews April 26, 2011 |
Google Puts $6 Million Into Open Source Summer Google pushes forward on its Summer of Code effort, helping over a thousand students and 175 open source projects. |
Registered Rep. February 19, 2013 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Majoring in Employment One of the top reasons students attend college is to get a good job. But just how much will schools help in the job search? |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Smartest Move Colleges Ever Made Eliminating the middleman serves both schools and students. Colleges are at least making the right response to the credit crisis by making loans directly to their students. |
Registered Rep. February 28, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Ten Facts About College Freshmen College news that tell us what college freshman think and that Antioch College offers free tuition. For applicants, the FAFSA will be easier to complete this year. |
Registered Rep. November 21, 2011 Liz O'Shaughnessy |
Negotiating through the Maze of College Costs One of the biggest mistakes that families with college-bound teenagers make is looking in the wrong places for college cash. |
Fast Company November 2010 Nate Berg |
How the African Leadership Academy Is Fighting the Continent's Education Exodus A South African academy aims to teach the continent's brightest - and fight widespread brain drain. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
How Music Teachers Got Their Groove Back Music Instruction Goes Digital Carol Broos is on a mission. She is determined to appeal to the estimated 80 percent of students who do not enroll in traditional school music programs -- band, orchestra, and choir. |
CRM September 2013 Leonard Klie |
Schools Need to Rethink Their CRM Approaches Many colleges and universities are only using CRM for marketing, ignoring vital service and sales components. |
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Boundless Opportunity National borders are no match for the reach of online technologies, as demonstrated by a host of collaborative projects that use web-based platforms to link US students with their peers abroad. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jeanne Erdmann |
Weeklong Program Turns High School Students Toward Careers In Medicine High school students participating in the weeklong Maps in Medicine Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Over the next few days they will use the Internet, pore over x-rays and CT scans, and learn how doctors diagnose illnesses by facing a problem one well-researched step at a time. |
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. |
Information Today August 23, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students |
Registered Rep. September 19, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2011 Alex Pape |
Why I Missed Out on a 24% Day for This Stock For the sake of education, let's take a look at the reflective process that had this analyst miss a 24% jump in American Public Education. |
Bank Systems & Technology July 15, 2009 Katherine Burger |
PNC Bank Introduces Virtual Wallet Student Based on year-old Virtual Wallet offering, tool is designed to empower students to better manage their money. |
Registered Rep. August 25, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Most Attractive Student Loans Since many families will need help to cover some of their costs, it's important that advisors be equipped with the basics about borrowing for college. Here are some critical things that you need to know about student loans. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad |
Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Technology's Impact on Effective Teaching Strategies Much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
T.H.E. Journal August 27, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Robert W. Lucky |
Is Math Still Relevant? The queen of the sciences may someday lose its royal status |