Life News (Education)

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Statement by Dr. Rita R. Colwell on Being Appointed to the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.

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For the second time in as many years, a unique group of 34 American liberal arts colleges is hitting the road to 10 cities across the country to collectively deliver a special message to prospective students. What they have in common, besides their size and commitment to the liberal arts, is their appearance in a 1996 book entitled "Colleges That Change Lives."

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A $1.4 million grant will help three medical schools improve the formal teaching of good doctor-patient communication skills, and better incorporate this instruction into clinical work during the third and fourth years of study, when medical students interact daily with patients.

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Twenty-one senior dental students from Case Western Reserve University and four other schools are providing much-needed care at the Pine Ridge, S.D., Indian Reservation.

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1- a spate of films packing an offensive wallop, 2- independent filmmakers and Amazon.com marketing "indies," 3- adults with speech disabilities learning to communicate using computer technology.

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1- for city girls, summertime science, 2- will boys get a kick out of the women's World Cup? 3- First Lady is testing New Yorkers

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A July 12-16 symposium at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, the first of its scope to be conducted anywhere in the world, will focus on what's right about bilingual education, bringing together internationally-renowned experts.

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At Ohio University's graduate commencement on June 11 in Athens, the speaker was Martin Schwartz, Ph.D., chair of OU's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

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Littleton, Atlanta, Conyers, Jonesboro - all sites of recent school violence. Jane Conoley, dean of education at Texas A&M University, says the solutions to school violence lie not within legislative standards, but rather community standards.

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One court ruling tells colleges to pursue enrollment parity based on race. Another ruling tells them they canít take race into consideration.

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Young children with learning disabilities who have trouble in reading, writing and math often carry these deficienies into adulthood unless teachers intervene with special programs. Now investigators at Vanderbilt University are taking a hard look at intervention programs for children with disabilities in the primary grades.

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Most kids do at least a little bullying of their peers, according to a University of Illinois professor, if the results from a survey at a large Midwestern middle school are any indication.

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A new study confirms that writing tests administered via paper and pencil may significantly underestimate the capabilities of computer-savvy students, according to assessment specialists at Boston College.

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1. Feed a Bookworm, Watch it Grow 2. New Program Helps At-Risk Kids Get Ahead 3. Are Parents Up To Home Schooling?

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After biking more than 3,800 miles in four months, two Red Cross HIV/AIDS instructors complete their journey, crossing a ceremonial finish line, at the American Red Cross national headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday, July 2.

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Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have worked with companies and community colleges across the country to help teach current and future workers the skills they will need and to document knowledge and skill in a "career transcript" that will follow the student throughout his or her working life.

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The vast majority of today's employers have benefited economically and employees have increased their skills through workplace education programs, according to a report released by The Conference Board and The Conference Board of Canada.

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Future medical students are biting into the old adage "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" by learning about nutrition's role in preventive medicine.

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On what I know is a foreboding, but challenging note, your generation will have to find an energy replacement for oil, or by 2050; you will be facing an economic, political and social barrier unknown since the dark ages. -- Rand Araskog

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Expanding educational and sports opportunities for girls and women around the world is the theme of the 50th anniversary conference of the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW), a conference expected to draw 100 of the world's most influential women in sports and physical education to Smith College July 7

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LEARNING: 1. Why Good Kids Have Bad Study Habits 2. Key to Early School Success 3. Fun and Easy Teaching Tips for Parents 4. Why Some Kids Hate School 5. Donít Raise a Bully 6. Teaching Children Self-Esteem HEALTH AND SAFETY: 7. Breakfast Is Brain Food 8. Vision Care Important for Learning 9. Finding the Right School Shoes

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Confronted with a population of more than 92,000 institutionalized children and thousands more roaming the streets, a team of 14 Romanian child welfare officials came to the University of Illinois at Chicago to learn how to improve the quality of child care services in their country.

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It's sort of like "Road Rules" with a purpose. That's how two new University of Delaware graduates describe their plans to live in some of the country's poorest areas over the next six months, filming their journey along the way.

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Industry experts say the demand for nuclear engineers has exploded over the past two years, and college students taking this career path will have jobs waiting for them when they graduate.

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Lani Guinier, Houston Baker and Stanley Fish are among more than a dozen prominent guest speakers who will present public talks as part of the 1999 Summer Session of the School of Criticism and Theory, (SCT) hosted by Cornell University beginning June 14.

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Officials from the Dominican Republic and Cornell University will celebrate the construction start of a multipurpose facility -- a biodiversity laboratory for undergraduate students and a distance-learning center for scholars of that Caribbean nation -- in ceremonies set for June 18 in the Punta Cana region of the Dominican Republic.

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Why is talk about TV superheroes forbidden at a Montessori school? Why would a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year old child? Why do girls often lose out to the their big brothers in the fight for time on the family computer?

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Washington State University has established a connection to the next generation communications network known as Internet2. This very-high-speed network is a collective effort of more than 150 U.S. universities, the federal government and private industry.

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To help entering freshmen, the University of Virginia's Northern Virginia Center and HRD Press are offering "Surviving the First Year of College: Myth vs. Reality" free.

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Francois Clemmons' talents as a singer and a musician make him a valued instructor at Middlebury College in Vermont.

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The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University have been awarded $450,000 from the Bush Foundation for an innovative new program to enhance student learning.

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As a women's college Smith has a particular commitment to summer programs that forward the educational prospects and achievements of girls and women. This highlights eight unusual programs and events taking place at Smith this summer.

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Purdue University is taking steps to fill the high demand for professionals in the wood products industry with the creation of a new major -- wood products manufacturing technology.

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San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. and Birmingham business leader H. Corbin Day, chairman of Jemison Investment Co., will be honored during graduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

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The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has taken a major role in the digital dissemination of geographic data in being named the Clearinghouse Node for Maryland in the National Data Infrastructure framework.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in upholding a law allowing some parents to use state vouchers to send their children to religious schools, challenges "a sound constitutional and moral consensus" that goes back to the 1920s, according to a University of Illinois scholar.

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A truly effective program to deal with school violence usually requires a change in a school's culture -- a change that is often resisted, according to an Ohio State professor and author of a new book on dealing with violent youth.

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Magnet schools, developed in the 1970s as an alternative to mandatory busing, have achieved much of what they were designed to do but have also contributed to segregation by social class and a dimishment of communities, Vanderbilt researchers say.

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An anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the school but in the communities in which the students reside.

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Comedian Bill Cosby delivered the final lecture to Colgate University's Class of 1999, and when he had finished his address to the college's 178th annual commencement he hugged and greeted each of the 677 members of the class individually.

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University at Albany Dean of Undergraduate Studies John Pipkin will be the featured speaker at the University at Albany's 155th undergraduate commencement ceremony Sunday, May 23. He replaces poet Maya Angelou.

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A dearth of social workers in Georgia schools means that important links between schools, homes and communities aren't being established. Links that could prevent the sort of tragedies that have occurred in Littleton, Colo., Jonesboro, Ark., Paducah, Ky., and, most recently, Conyers, Ga.

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Bishop John R. Kinney will deliver the 1999 spring commencement address to the College of Saint Benedict graduating seniors on Saturday, May 22, at 2 p.m., in the Clemens Field House in CSB's Haehn Campus Center.

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Rand V. Araskog, retired chair and chief executive of ITT Corporation, will deliver the commencement address at Gustavus Adolphus College at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30 on the college's Hollingsworth Field.

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Mount Holyoke College will celebrate this year's commencement with a number of unique traditions--including a parade with ties to the Women's Suffrage Movement--which have been established over the College's 162-year history.

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Former U.S. Vice President and ambassador to Japan Walter F. Mondale will be guest speaker at St. Olaf College's 110th annual commencement Sunday, May 23.

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Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt urged the Classes of 1999 to commit themselves to "enlightenment" in the form of knowledge, new ideas and service to others. In his farewell remarks during Commencement ceremonies on May 14, Wyatt described the shared sense of community, purpose and vision that characterizes a Vanderbilt education.

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Diane M. Capstaff, executive vice president at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., will be the speaker at the Monday, May 24, Commencement exercises of Boston College's Graduate School of Management.

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The latest research in how children learn and how teachers can improve classroom instruction will be highlighted June 11-13 when the annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition is held at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Graduation speakers at The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada (May 19-20, 1999) include soprano Wendy Nielsen; Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable Romeo LeBlanc; Justice Louise Arbour, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals at the International Court in The Hague; and Edward F. (Ted) Boswell, retired chairperson of E.B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd.