Science

Student body president in CA is illegal immigrant (AP)

Posted by rohit on November 18, 2010 at 3:37 am

FRESNO, Calif. – The popular student body president at California State University, Fresno has publicly revealed a personal detail he long sought to keep secret: He is an illegal immigrant

Sweet drinks widely available in schools (Reuters)

Posted by rohit on November 1, 2010 at 9:10 pm

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Despite efforts to limit their availability, public elementary school students in the United States have more outlets to buy unhealthy beverages at school, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Over a three-year period ending in 2009, more students could buy sweetened beverages like sodas, higher-fat milk and sports beverages from vending machines and school stores, they said.

Teachers unions fight public performance rankings (The Upshot)

Posted by rohit on October 22, 2010 at 12:02 am

A big legal battle is brewing between New York City’s education department and the local teachers union over the recently announced plan to issue public rankings of teachers based on how their students perform on tests. Union leaders say the practice would be an intrusion on the privacy of rank-and-file members — and are suing the city today to prevent the plan from going forward. Unless the union prevails, the education department will hand over the rankings of 12,000 teachers tomorrow morning to reporters who have requested the data

Obama to test Archimedes solar ray legend (AFP)

Posted by rohit on October 18, 2010 at 8:22 pm

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said Monday he will star on reality show “Mythbusters” next month but lamented that he will not get to blow anything up on the explosives-prone program.

Woman acquitted in Winfrey SAfrica school scandal (AP)

Posted by on October 11, 2010 at 7:11 pm

JOHANNESBURG – A woman accused of abusing teenagers at Oprah Winfrey’s school for girls in South Africa was acquitted of the charges Monday, and Winfrey said she was “profoundly disappointed” by the trial’s outcome. Prosecutors had accused former school matron Tiny Virginia Makopo of trying to kiss and fondle girls at the school soon after it opened in 2007 outside Johannesburg.

Egypt’s education system needs an overhaul (Reuters)

Posted by on October 6, 2010 at 4:39 pm

CAIRO (Reuters) – Sawsan Gomaa, 18, thought memorizing vocabulary and grammar from the ministry textbook would be enough to ace Egypt’s yearly national language exam for high school graduates, the main gateway to university.

APNewsBreak: Charter school group to raise $160M (AP)

Posted by rohit on September 29, 2010 at 12:14 pm

ATLANTA – Groups hoping to open charter schools across the country could soon have millions more dollars available. The Charter School Growth Fund is announcing a $160 million fundraising campaign Wednesday — the largest-ever aimed at helping start more of the nontraditional public schools nationwide

New tool helps explore path to more tech grads (AP)

Posted by on September 28, 2010 at 5:24 pm

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Policymakers and philanthropists have a new resource in the effort to increase the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering and math. An online tool developed by the Business-Higher Education Forum with help from Ohio State University debuted Monday. It allows people to see what combinations of policies might create the most interest in such degrees and careers, such as retaining more teachers or starting an elementary science club

Finding the Right Match in B-School (BusinessWeek)

Posted by rohit on September 21, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Singapore is a small island nation at the tip of the Southeast Asian peninsula. It boasts year-round sunshine with an average daytime temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit

Online Education in the Ivy League (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted by rohit on September 17, 2010 at 9:52 pm

In what could be a watershed moment for online education, Dartmouth College has announced it will combine professors from its highly rated Tuck School of Business (ranked 7th by U.S. News ) and its Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to launch a new, mostly online, master’s program designed to prepare mid-career healthcare leaders for the future of their profession. With more provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act going into effect this month, the burden of ensuring effective reform has been passed from legislators to healthcare executives

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