Around the country, private colleges have been providing better financial support for students in their own areas to improve enrollment rates and also to strengthen ties with the community.
One such example comes from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. With its “Good Neighbor, Great University” program, it offers financial aid to incoming freshmen who have graduated [...]
With the rise of an economy placing an increasing importance in environmental sustainability, there also comes a need for leaders educated in matters of green technology. For this, community colleges have begun offering training through new courses and degree programs.
According to a March 2010 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory financed by the Energy [...]
As a way of keeping up with the times and maintaining more efficient student administration, colleges and universities across the United States have decided to create their own tailored social networking sites, with the help of a couple of tech-savvy startups.
Having an official fan page on Facebook is great for creating a niche for students, [...]
The Roosevelt Union Free School District has been making changes by bringing the fun back into learning for its students. Led by Robert-Wayne Harris, the district superintendent, the district has been promoting a return of interest in school.
Mr. Harris does this by making a point: “When you do the right thing, you get rewarded, and [...]
In a first-ever study of hand-clapping songs, Dr. Idit Sulkin from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) discovered a link between the activity and the development of important skills that last throughout a person’s life. These skills surprisingly included cognitive abilities, social integration, spelling and even neater handwriting. Through hand-clapping songs and games, children [...]
Filed under: News, education on August 20th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The National Capital Region is getting a boost in non-profit funding. Venture Philanthropy Partners is a non-profit organization that aims to help children from low-income families using the principles of venture capital investment. Recently, the organization gave $5.5 million to fund the expansion of the Knowledge is Power Program or KIPP DC, a network of [...]
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and proponent of the non-profit association, One Laptop Per Child, introduced a prototype of a laptop costing just $100 for students in the developing world. Believing the cost was still too steep, India sought to invent an even less expensive technology-based aid for its students.
The result [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on August 2nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Social Robotics is a branch of computer science that deals with enhancing communication between humans and machines. At various laboratories, robots programmed to deal with human interaction are being tested out. But more specifically, they are trained to both teach and learn an assortment of skills for people. One particular application is for teaching children [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on July 24th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Brian Chen, the author of an upcoming book called Always On, which makes inferences into the always-connected mobile future, recently published an article called “Will the iPad Make You Smarter?” on Wired.com’s Gadget Lab. The article touches upon the new style of user interfaces that mobile gadgets like Apple’s iPad are beginning to move towards, [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on July 15th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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A recent report reveals that the Australian New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education’s Fiber Optic broadband project is ahead of schedule. Telstra Corporation Limited, which agreed to have the project finished by September, has already laid out 99 percent of the 4500km fiber optic network.
“There has been no delay with the project, which is [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology, education on July 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.