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US sees jump in overseas students: official (AFP)

Published on November 16, 2010 By

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A record 690,923 international students are studying at colleges and universities in the United States, with a greater influx of students from China, the US State Department said Monday. The international student roll for the 2009-2010 academic year was three percent higher than the previous year.

School brings farming to Big Apple (AP)

Published on November 5, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – No one expects to find beets and carrots in a sliver of the South Bronx wedged between Metro-North Railroad tracks and a busy elevated highway.

Sweet drinks widely available in schools (Reuters)

Published on November 1, 2010 By rohit

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.

Obama to test Archimedes solar ray legend (AFP)

Published on October 18, 2010 By rohit

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.

Gates Foundation Launches $20M Grant for Online Ed (PC Magazine)

Published on October 12, 2010 By rohit

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced a $20 million grant program to improve college graduation rates via technology, which will probably be oriented around online education and learning programs. Next year, the focus will be expanded to K-12 programs, Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft and the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in a conference call

Have You Been Burned By Wall Street? (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on September 30, 2010 By

During his summer break from college, my son tried to sell me on the merits of the popular television series Burn Notice . In this TV drama, Jeffrey Donovan plays Michael Westen, a former covert operative who unjustly receives a “burn notice”–an espionage-style termination that results in the immediate eradication of his assets and influence, leaving him isolated and alone. The finance industry has a similar practice.

Bill Gates, John Legend tout education reform (AFP)

Published on September 12, 2010 By

TORONTO (AFP) – Harvard University dropout and Microsoft founder Bill Gates and once homeschooled Grammy-winning singer John Legend made a pitch for reforming America’s beleaguered public schools. The pair joined David Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) for the international premiere at the Toronto film festival of his latest documentary “Waiting for Superman,” which follows five students as they try to navigate a broken US public school system

Show in historic Istanbul seminary stirs hope (Reuters)

Published on September 7, 2010 By rohit

ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) – An Istanbul seminary closed in 1971 is hosting its first public event in 40 years, raising hopes it may shortly be reopened by Turkey and once again educate priests for the Greek Orthodox community. The European Union and the United States have pressed EU membership hopeful Turkey to reopen the historic school, which occupies a beautiful and commanding site at the top of the island of Heybeliada, or Halki in Greek. “Tracing Istanbul,” an exhibition of works by Greek artists inspired by the city, has filled the school’s evocative, abandoned classrooms with paintings and brought life back to the corridors

Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on August 31, 2010 By

Chicago and Boston – Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line – sometimes literally between life and death. At the South Side after-school center that his mom founded, he knew kids who’d made it all the way to fourth grade unable to read. And on the asphalt playgrounds of that rough area, he shot hoops with boys who later died in gang warfare.

For-profit schools get report on loan repayments (Reuters)

Published on August 14, 2010 By rohit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For-profit schools got a report card of their own on Friday, as the Department of Education released data showing estimated student loan repayment rates, part of a drive to tighten oversight of the industry.