Education writer and school-reform advocate Michael Klonsky, director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence.
A Kent State professor has embarked on building a worldwide Internet community for the deaf, their parents, and their current and future teachers and, in the process, is creating a revolution in deaf/hard of hearing education.
Researchers at Ohio State found that the acoustics of many classrooms are poor enough to make listening and learning difficult for children. Only two of 32 classrooms studied met the standards recommended by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
In recent debates, proponents of school choice have maintained that parents would make choices based on school quality and school preferences, not on racial bias.
An 18-year-old senior at Centre College has become one of the youngest Americans ever named a Rhodes Scholar. He is interested in mathematical modeling as a way of studying human diseases.
The number of foreign students attending colleges and universities in the U.S. increased 2% in the 1998-99 school year to a record total of 490,933, according to a report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
The number of U.S. students receiving credit for study abroad jumped nearly 15% from the previous year, reaching a record total of 113,959, according to a report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
Univ. of Kansas' journalism school unveils convergent curriculum that capitalizes on technological advances like the Internet while maintaining strong editing, writing.
The University of Maryland is creating the nation's first living-learning entrepreneurship program that will bring together undergraduate students from different disciplines to study entrepreneurship, live and work together in a specially equipped dorm, and perhaps even create their own startup businesses.
A new Web-based international business course links teams of students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with teams of students from universities in Italy, Chile and Hong Kong.
The number of high school graduates has risen from a little more than one out of 100 students to some four out of five in the past 100 years. But the American century has seen its share of successes and failures in education, according to faculty at Vanderbilt UniversityÃs Peabody College of education and human development.
Declining SAT scores by Indiana's high school students may be due to several factors, says a Ball State University educator.
Universities in the Far East are struggling to keep up with advances in computer technology, says a Ball State University study.
A new University of Wisconsin-Madison online science course in geology based on the content of the popular Why Files Web site promises to draw sciencephobes like claim jumpers to a gold strike.
Parents seeking quality education alternatives for kids enrolled in public schools can find what they're looking for at a small schools exhibition coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
To edit video images of a research project in Mexico, Mississippi State University graduate student Alan Jones doesn't head for a television studio. He drops by the School of Architecture.
David Perlmutter, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected president of the Linguistic Society of America.
Smith College President Ruth J. Simmons is calling upon colleges and universities to develop a set of principles for dealing with racial inequities inside their institutions and, by extension, within society as a whole.
With the help of the National Science Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and four Wisconsin school districts have launched a comprehensive initiative to reinvigorate the way science and math are taught and learned at the primary, middle and high school levels.
Forcing students to simply repeat a grade doesn't help children's educational achievement, but enrolling them in high-quality early childhood programs does, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has found in two separate studies.
Grounding mathematics problems in real-life contexts through video technology gives some low- and average-achieving students a double boost: They perform better on tests and then can apply what they learned to new projects.
Linking teacher pay raises to how well or poorly students perform on standardized tests is a step in the wrong direction, says a Ball State University educator.
Those blue-and-red Pokemon cards that have become an obsession for many elementary school students and are causing disruptions in some classrooms should be expelled, says a Ball State University expert.
Hotel students learn, earn more working for off-campus high-tech Internet startup company RealTime Hotel.
Washington and Lee University's Mock Convention is a quadrennial tradition in which student delegates attempt to predict the presidential nominee of the political party currently out of the White House. W&L students have been right 11 of the last 12 times.
Herbert I. Schiller, professor emeritus and founder of the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego, is the 1999 recipient of the Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Ball State University experts are available to provide information and background on a variety of holiday related issues.
Whether they're looking for guidance about applying to college, tips on writing a resume or information about college financial assistance, high school students can find help on the Internet at a World Wide Web site called "Elaine Harlan's College Advice."
Cornell University and Ithaca, NY Sciencenter host a NASA-supported workshop for science teachers in middle and high schools from across the Northeast that will take advantage of Cornell's involvement in the space agency's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission to explore a distant asteroid.
Rhodes College has established a website for businesses and corporations.
While some schools are banning Pokemon cards because they distract kids from classroom work, Temple psychologist Frank Farley says educators can learn much about motivating their students from the popularity of the game, which involves 150 creatures on cards with differing abilities and powers.
Ball State University experts are available to provide information and background on a variety of holiday related issues.
An Iowa State University political science professor has launched a web design contest to get high school students more interested in politics and American government.
To provide high school teaching fellowships for college graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the sciences and mathematics, the National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University a three-year, $1.35 million grant.
Countering the national trend of rising college tuition costs, Marlboro College will freeze its current tuition rate for the second year in a row.
A recent study by two University of Iowa economics researchers shows that college-educated workers with mathematical and verbal skills have the potential to earn the biggest paychecks.
Performing in a school production can help children develop poise and self-confidence. But for some, the thought of standing in front of a live audience is terrifying.
The National Science Foundation has awarded almost $6 million over four years to help institutions of higher learning that traditionally serve minority communities prepare for the next generation of information technology and computer networks.
Swarthmore College, the primary beneficiary of the estate of the late James Michener, is devoting the bulk of the funds to the support of faculty research.
Ball State University experts are available to provide information and background on a variety of issues.
In the first course of its kind at an American veterinary school, Cornell's future animal doctors are discovering the extent of what their instructors call a national epidemic: the "disease of euthanasia," what enlightened animal shelters are doing and what they, as caring professionals, can do to help.
The National Science Foundation has made a first round of grants to 31 institutions nationwide enabling talented graduate students and advanced undergraduates in science, mathematics, engineering and technology to serve as teaching fellows in K-12 schools.
Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.
Football has taken over as "America's pastime," says a Temple sports psychologist.
The University at Buffalo will host a major international meeting of policy experts and researchers in higher-education finance on Nov. 14-16 to discuss the critical worldwide shift of higher-education costs from governments and taxpayers to students and their parents.
Colleges and universities recognize that diversity is a desirable goal and an integral component of offering a higher quality education, but they are finding that diversity comes with a price.
High school students now can apply at Purdue University without filing a single piece of paper. Prospective students can fill out an application, pay the application fee and complete a financial aid estimater online.
Marlboro College announced this week that it will receive the largest single gift in history of Vermont colleges.
A new study says there's a big hole in the argument used by university officials who say collective bargaining with teaching and research assistants interferes with the faculty's ability to instruct and advise those students: It isn't true.
Cornell University students working in the new Cornell Small Children/Small Business Clinic provide direct technical assistance, consultation and training to local child care entrepreneurs on a wide variety of legal, business, facility and work and family issues.
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