What will a child in the UK make of a laptop designed to help children in the developing world? Rory Cellan-Jones brought an XO home to find out.
NEW YORK—Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
Washington Post / November 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - Some scholars are joining parent advocates in questioning whether the No Child Left Behind law, with its goal of universal academic proficiency, has had the unintended consequence of diverting resources and attention from the gifted.
Resources and activities for physics teachers.
Asking a girl out to dinner isn't always the easiest thing to do, especially if you need to do it in another language! Let Benny make things smoother and possibly more effective!
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, joined by Education Commissioner Richard Mills, put the finishing touches Monday on one of his hallmark education plans, the statewide Contracts for Excellence.
Students in Boston?s pilot high schools perform better on the MCAS tests, are suspended less frequently, attend class more often, and graduate in higher percentages than students enrolled in the city?s regular public high schools, according to the first comprehensive study on the effectiveness of the experimental schools.
About a quarter of Massachusetts high school students who took state exams in biology, chemistry, physics, and technology and engineering in the spring flunked the tests, highlighting a need for improved science education, state officials said.
The justices split 4-4 on the case, which means a lower court ruling siding with former Viacom executive Tom Freston remains in place.
Lower courts had sided with Freston against New York City's board of education, saying the city must pay for educating the learning-disabled student, even though he had been enrolled in private school.
The student's parents had insisted that public schools were unable to meet the child's needs. His learning disabilities were diagnosed after he was enrolled in private school.
"We teach teachers how to use (technology) in the classroom, not just in the areas of math and science but we train teachers how to use technology to make art, history, language or any subject more exciting to kids," Intel Chairman Craig Barrett told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.
The new program is part of Intel's annual global investment of more than $100 million in improving education in schools and universities.
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