The educational establishment is largely oblivious as to why American schools are poor at educating students, according to Gerald Graff, UIC professor of English and education.
A new school year is almost upon us - do you know where your education experts are? The University of Maryland's experts have the answers for many of the education issues you are doing stories about - including the No Child Left Behind Act.
In the smiles of dozens of special needs children, mechanical engineering students and education specialists see the results of a model university program that adds emotion to engineering and technical expertise to early intervention.
1) Kids can email and IM but can they write an essay? 2) How is the No Child Left Behind plan working? 3) Hand-held computers in K-12, technology in education; 4) The achievement gap and education issues for urban students; 5) The history of education reform.
Carol Zoref, Writing Coordinator at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., is available for comment on the growing importance of writing in today's world and the need to integrate writing education into the entire curriculum, not just English classes.
Teachers and parents need to learn new methods to help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, according to a Purdue University educational researcher who pulled together 30 years of research in a new book.
Wake Forest University professors comment on K-12 educational and parenting issues.
June 14-17, Northeastern University will host the 14th World Conference on Cooperative Education, a bi-annual conference organized by the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE). This year's conference will focus on the interdependence of education and economic policy development.
The UAB School of Education will present a three-week program this summer for schoolteachers to gain insight into the civil rights movement and its lasting effect on public education and society.
Public school teachers converge in Philadelphia, Miss., June 22-24 for the "Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner Living Memorial Civil Rights Education Summit," a landmark event aimed at providing firsthand perspectives on the 1960s civil rights movement for educators.
Making decisions that yield the educational and economic benefits of a strong athletics program without costs to academic and moral integrity poses a dilemma that can place an institution in the forefront of reform or sabotage its credibility.
The University of Maine teacher preparation program is the first in the state to require that students working toward Maine certification have a laptop computer and specific educational hardware as part of their tools for learning. Apple iBook is the designated computer and software.
Education researchers at Johns Hopkins University are available to comment on summer learning loss.
Although school is almost out for the summer, learning doesn't have to stop, says University of Alabama at Birmingham education expert Charles Calhoun, Ph.D. "Parents can use everyday activities and summertime events to teach math, reading and history.
U.Va. education student Heather Welch, who graduates on May 22, has some stellar ideas about how best to put her science education to work and drum up interest in the subject among American students. Her work has won her a selective Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellowship, worth about $50,000.
Although school is almost out for the summer, learning doesn't have to stop, says UAB education expert Charles Calhoun, Ph.D.
On May 4, a memorandum of understanding creating the Higher Education Outreach Project among the United Nations, acting through its Department of Public Information, Fairleigh Dickinson University and the United Nations Association of the United States of America was signed at U.N. Headquarters in New York City.
On the 35th Earth Day, which focuses on protecting our children, author and journalism professor John Morano can discuss how journalists and writers can be effective teachers, protecting children through education.
On Saturday, April 23, the UAB School of Education will host the 20th annual Young Authors Conference. More than 3,000 children and their parents will meet their favorite children's authors and illustrators.
Schools are improving health education and increasing physical activity to combat obesity among children, but what about school staff? A UA professor is working with a school district to improve the health of public school employees, and to lower taxpayer costs in the process.
Should you pay your child $10 for every "A"? Banish video games for a month for each "F"? Lisa Huffman, assistant professor of educational psychology at Ball State University, offers tips for handling report cards.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Winter 2005 celebrates the rich 115-year history of nursing education and experience at Johns Hopkins with a look at Hopkins nurses yesterday and today. Through their war letters, course curricula, and uniforms, the issue explores both the milestones and changes in Hopkins Nursing.
The new UAB Urban Education Project could eventually help close the achievement gap among inner city school children and their suburban counterparts.
When the American Educational Research Association holds its Annual Meeting April 11 to 15, scholars will present research findings that illuminate three converging trends in education: increasing diversity among students, increasing tension regarding the role of education in a democracy, and increasing accountability through testing.
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