The financial value of a higher education increased in the mid-1990s but the dollar value of a high school diploma or less dropped by 8 percent. The new analysis shows the earnings gap between families headed by college graduates and families headed by high school graduates widened significantly.
The National Science Board (NSB) urges a reexamination of the federal/university partnership, and offers several recommendations for improvement, in a policy paper released today titled "The Federal Role in Science and Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Education."
The academic environment's influence on schoolchildren's attitudes about cheating and the value of homework are examined in two studies to be published in the March issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Educational Psychology.
Gallaudet University (Washington D.C.), the world's only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the student protest that shut down the campus in 1988 and led to significant changes in the way Americans with disabilities are treated. The event called "Deaf President Now" (DPN) will be celebrated with speeches, panel sessions, and events culminating in a student march to Capitol Hill on March 11.
The inventor of a piece of software embraced by Hollywood special-effects wizards in over 200 films is sharing his expertise in a new computer graphics course he is teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The news is not good regarding the performance of U.S. 12th graders in math and science in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
Each year since 1984, the Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine for Minority Students, sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company since 1990, gives 35 outstanding students grants to conduct biomedical research. The program provides the fellows with mentors to help them complete medical school and encourage them to pursue careers in academia and medical research.
With a $6 million National Science Foundation grant and a group of researchers and educators from the University of Missouri-Columbia, middle- school students across the nation may soon be learning more mathematics and learning it better than before.
A college education is designed to broaden minds and expand critical thinking, but it also should teach us how to better monitor what we say. This is especially true on the job, where a conversation about a popular television show can move very quickly from around the water cooler to a court of law.
"Alcohol and Drugs on American College Campuses: Issues of Violence and Harassment," a report published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), is being mailed this week to college presidents nationwide. The report is based on surveys from 89,874 students at 171 institutions and describes issues of collegiate violence, harassment and campus climate.
University of Iowa faculty members spend an average of 31.4 hours a week on teaching activities. The study marks the first time that the UI faculty has documented all of its teaching activities, including not only regularly scheduled classes, laboratories and seminars but also time spent preparing for classes, evaluating student assignments, holding office hours, advising students, providing individualized instruction, and working on special projects with honors, masters and doctoral students.
The Internet is revolutionizing the way professors in the humanities teach their students. Prof. Beavers creator of the Exploring Ancient World Cultures Web site, The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia and limited-area search engines Argos and Hippias--has developed a new site called "the 4th Tetralogy." The site provides English translations of Plato's Republic, the Phaedrus, the Symposium and the Phaedo.
Which is the most important factor influencing student performance in mathematics: A good teacher? Innate intelligence? Home environment? Studying hard? They're all important, of course. But differences in how Asians and Americans answer this question help to explain the U.S. disadvantage in math and science achievement.
How much children learn in school depends in good measure on the attitudes and values of the surrounding community -- and on how much those values are shared by the children themselves -- education experts agreed at a AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) symposium today (Feb. 16) in Philadelphia.
Schools interested in attracting involvement from parents and communities can now join a national network focused on the same goal. The National Network of Partnership Schools has been developed by the Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University.
Women still face special roadblocks that discourage many from pursuing careers in engineering and science. A national project, announced Feb. 3, will use the information superhighway to lessen the detours encountered by female college students majoring in engineering and other sciences.
In 1970, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business were among the first in the country to have the opportunity to manage "real-world" equity portfolios. Now UW-Madison students will be among the first to manage a substantial fixed income fund.
It's not every day that a member of a royal family can be found teaching at an American college. But for the first half of February, students at Agnes Scott College will be taught by a Jordanian princess.
Cornell University's Mann Library will digitize the contents of 125 agricultural journals to create The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, or TEEAL, on CD-ROM, to be distributed to university libraries in developing countries.
A Vanderbilt University education professor who has studied the impact of class size on students' learning says a comprehensive plan to improve skills would be a better investment of the nation's resources.
When it comes to homework, quantity does not always equal quality. Dean of Purdue University's School of Education says for young children, 20 minutes to an hour three to four times a week is just about right for homework. Older students in middle school and high school can profit from meaningful assignments in the one- to two-hour range. But Haring stresses that all homework should be meaningful to the child.
Dogs and cats still dominate the patient list at University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine, but they're sharing more space with a new breed of companion critters, from ailing ferrets to sick lizards.
Adults may have abandoned the pen for the keyboard, but until first-graders have laptops, it's crucial that children continue to be taught handwriting because of its link to composition. A University ofWashington study of children with writing problems shows that first-graders improved both their handwriting and their composition after being tutored.
Researchers in Resources for the Future's (RFF) Center for Risk Management have initiated a new project that has as its goal increasing public attention to the issues raised by the contamination and environmental risks left behind from decades of nuclear weapons production in the United States.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Vanderbilt University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering John Bourne teaches one of the first known asynchronous online courses in the world that instructs others on how to develop and teach online courses.
Vanderbilt University is the new home of the Alliance Project, an endeavor aimed at increasing the dwindling supply of special education personnel from historically underrepresented ethnic groups. Alliance staff work with historically black colleges and universities and other higher education institutions with 25 percent or higher enrollment of students from historically underrepresented ethnic groups.
An Antarctic storm cut short some research, but that's life life on the "ice."
The University's new Student Information System provides course changes, class locations, grades, and details of their bills and financial aid awards 24 hours a day from any computer hooked to the Web (www.liu.edu), and from on-campus kiosks that are being installed in the next few weeks.
Many of us have very creative ways for turning off an alarm clock, but Purdue University students will be building contraptions to do it for us at the 16th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 7. Several teams of Purdue students are building the most complicated and often humorous machines to get the job done.
Word problem No. 1: Take 372 sixth-graders, 12th-graders and older adults from China and the United States, test them for mathematical ability and solve for the growing Chinese advantage in basic competencies. The answer, says David Geary, professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, appears to be cultural changes in both countries including, perhaps, changes in curriculum.
Former Texas Gov. Ann W. Richards will join former Congresswoman Patricia S. Schroeder for a panel discussion on women's careers in politics Feb. 2 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
A few universities have started teaching space exploration as history. At Purdue University, often called the "mother of astronauts," a professor of Russian history has developed a course to compare the Soviet and U.S. space programs.
Parents who think a half-day kindergarten will be easier for their children than a full day of school may want to think again. Today's kindergarten curriculums are more academic and a Purdue expert found that students were less-stressed in full day programs.
"Living in Our World," the first and only social studies program for grades 4-7 designed exclusively to meet North Carolina's unique geography-based curriculum, is ready to roll off the presses.
He's a smooth operator, the type of guy who knows his way around. Some new Hollywood hero? No, he's Cosmo the Internet Adviser, wise-cracking animated star of a new interactive software program being developed at North Carolina State University to teach teens and preteens about the inner workings of the Internet.
Even on a Saturday, it's not surprising to find dedicated scientists hunched over microscopes in Northwestern University's Searle Medical Research Building, oblivious to the attractions of Lake Michigan and the Magnificent Mile, both just steps away on Chicago's near north side. What may be surprising are some of the faces behind the microscopes: a dozen or so teenagers, mostly Hispanic and African-American, who, on the remaining days of the week, live a world away in that other Chicago, the Chicago of struggling public schools and limited opportunities.
Minority freshmen taking part in Northwestern University's Mentoring Program this academic year will be teamed up soon with alumni mentors. Minority freshmen taking part in Northwestern University's Mentoring Program this academic year will be teamed up soon with alumni mentors.
Future teachers from the University of Iowa College of Education are showcasing their high-tech skills in a novel way, thanks to a new effort to prepare teachers for the classroom who will also be noticed by employers. "The Electronic Portfolio Project" is a new initiative to provide students in the teacher education program in the College of Education with training, skills and resources to make their academic and professional abilities available to employers on the World Wide Web.
A partnership between two universities and two public school systems has been established to develop new models for advanced teaching and learning that use computing and communication technologies.
A student born and raised in the former Soviet Union may not be the most likely choice to hold a leadership position in a pro-Republican organization at a small, private liberal arts college in Wisconsin in the birthplace of the Grand Old Party. Yet that's exactly where Ripon College's Dmitri Smirenski, a 19-year-old transplant from Moscow, finds himself.
As part of a new sociology class on civil rights, a group of students from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia is preparing to make a pilgrimage to the deep South to study the legacy of Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders. The new course, "The Civil Rights Movement: The Dream Will Never Die," marks the 30th anniversary of the April 4, 1968 assassination of King, as well as his January 15 birthday.
Students enrolled in the modern history class "Boomers to Yuppies: American Society Since 1945" at Franklin Pierce College are required to prepare a paper, based on a series of interviews with their parents, examining important events from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Dr. Ann H. Die, president of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, has been elected president of the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United Methodist Church.
Determined to reach out to homeless children and their parents, Nursing Instructor Lula Mae Phillips has created the Long Island University Childhood Wellness Program, delivering nutrition, safety and health education.
Leaders of fraternities, and to a lesser extent leaders of sororities, tend to be among the heaviest drinkers and the most out-of-control partiers. A national survey of 25,411 students at 61 institutions reveals that Greek leaders are helping to set norms of binge drinking.
WUEV, radio station of the University of Evansville in Indiana, launched its UK-based foreign bureau this year, just in time for student/correspondents Stacy Woodruff and Beth Nicewonger to cover the funeral of Princess Diana. The new foreign-correspondent program , developed by the university's mass communication department, is the first of its kind.
In their respective positions as president and vice president of Franklin & Marshall College, Richard Kneedler and Alice Drum have spent years talking to parents about the value of a liberal arts education. Sooner or later, almost every conversation comes around to cost.
RSS
Medicine keyboard_arrow_right
Sciencekeyboard_arrow_right
Life keyboard_arrow_right
Business keyboard_arrow_right
Journal News keyboard_arrow_right
By Location keyboard_arrow_right
Meetings, Grants, and Events keyboard_arrow_right