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August 13, 2008
Educators Peer Over Students’ Shoulders at Mich. Math Lab
Education Week-- By Sean Cavanagh---Hunched over tables, peering over one another’s shoulders, a group of 5th graders is attempting to conquer some of the most difficult—and essential—material in elementary school math.
July 31, 2008
Public HBCUs Experience Increasing Enrollment
by Michelle J. Nealy Diversity Magazine
July 29, 2008
The Society of Women Engineers Honors Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson with President's Award
WASHINGTON, Jul 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) honored Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) with its first-ever SWE President's Award at a reception held on Capitol Hill on July 23, 2008.
July 28, 2008
Teens Courted in Visit Aboard Navy Assault Ship
The Virginian-Pilot/ July 26, 2008 /By Greg Gaudio/Norfolk
July 28, 2008
Tuskegee Airmen Awards Colorado Student the Pratt & Whitney Golden Eagle Scholarship
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., July 25, 2008 /The Wall Street Journal Digital Network--Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. company, in partnership with the Tuskegee Airmen Inc., awarded the 2008 Golden Eagle Scholarship to Mahad Fahieh of Aurora, Colorado. The four-year, $20,000 award, funded by Pratt & Whitney, recognizes a high school senior who has demonstrated aptitude for aerospace technology and aviation.
July 10, 2008
Siemens PLM Software Recognized as Best Diversity Company
ISELIN, New Jersey June 26, 2008 - Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced the company has been selected as a "Best Diversity Company for 2008" by Diversity / Careers in Engineering & Information Technology (Diversity/Careers) magazine.
July 08, 2008
Group Forms 45% Of Freshmen at Thomas Jefferson
On the high school level, more public magnet schools are adopting objective merit-based systems as race-based policies are being overturned in courts.
July 03, 2008
Banneker Institute Steers African-American Youngsters Toward STEM Education and Careers
By Chris Mcmanes--IEEE--When Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), majority whip of the House of Representatives, was a schoolteacher in east Charleston, S.C., he witnessed firsthand the hardships many black youngsters encountered in school. As the keynote speaker at a recent event for those interested in increasing the number of African Americans working in high-tech careers, he shared some of those stories.
July 02, 2008
Global vs. U.S. Education
-Charlotte Observer-Contributing editor Karen McMahan-Jul. 01, 2008--By grade 12, only 3 percent of African American students are proficient in math, 4 percent of Hispanics, 10 percent of Native Americans, 20 percent of white Americans, and 34 percent of Asian Americans. Yet 70 percent of American parents “think their child's high school is teaching the right amount of math and science.
July 01, 2008
Teachers College to Partner with 10 Public Schools in Harlem
Teachers College, Columbia University--6/30/2008--Teachers College has received a $5 million grant from the GE Foundation to create an intensive new partnership with a group of 10 public schools in Harlem.
June 30, 2008
Virtual Patients also Experience Racial Bias
University of Florida News--Thursday, June 26, 2008---GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For black people, it doesn’t matter whether their color shows up in pigments or pixels. Doctors may be less likely to heed their complaints either way.
June 27, 2008
Allstate Appoints Desiree Rogers to Create Social Networking
NORTHBROOK, Ill. - (Business Wire) Allstate Insurance Company today announced it has appointed Chicago area business and civic leader Desirée Rogers to the newly created position of president of Social Networking for Allstate Financial, a business unit of The Allstate Corporation.
June 27, 2008
Study Shows Reforms are Working
Montgomery Advertiser---A new national study of student achievement dramatically underscores what most observers of education in Alabama already knew: The state's academic reforms in early grades are working, but need to continue to be expanded to more schools and to higher grades.
June 24, 2008
Students Receive Prestigious UNCF/Merck Science Initiative Award
(CSRwire) FAIRFAX, VA,. - June 24, 2008 - UNCF–the United Negro College Fund–the nation’s oldest and most successful minority higher education assistance organization, and the global research-based pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc., announced yesterday awards of scholarships and fellowships to 38 African-American student recipients of the UNCF/Merck Science Initiative award, during the 2008 UNCF/Merck Fellows Day.
June 24, 2008
University of California trying to 'Grow' More Doctors for Valley
By Doug Hoagland--The Fresno Bee--6/22/08--- The Valley needs more Asian, black and Hispanic doctors -- and the University of California is trying to "grow" them in three Fresno County high schools. UC runs a Doctors Academy at Sunnyside, Selma and Caruthers high schools -- which have diverse student bodies -- to give academic help, counseling and mentoring opportunities to students interested in medicine.
June 24, 2008
Camp Aims to Inspire
By JANESE HEAVIN--Tribune’s staff ---Published Sunday, June 22, 2008 ---About 35 minority students heading to high school this fall are better prepared to take advanced courses, thanks to a two-week academic boot camp.
June 23, 2008
45 Stem Cell Grants to Hopkins Researchers
Johns Hopkins researchers have received 45 of the 62 grants awarded by the Maryland Technology Development Corp.
June 20, 2008
Staying Competitive
By Heather Chickoore -- RedOrbit.com--"The vast majority of Americans, especially business and scientific leaders, still see the United States as the world's technological leader," says Bruce E. Bursten, president of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. "But many see a great potential for our leadership to diminish or disappear altogether if our country is no longer turning out enough of the best and brightest scientists and engineers," he says.
June 20, 2008
Seeking New Insights into Achievement Gap
--By Hilary Parker - Princeton Weekly Bulletin--Angel Harris wants to change the way people think about the academic achievement gap across racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
June 13, 2008
Florida Math and Science Scores Up
By BILL KACZOR-- Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Standardized reading, math and science test scores are up again nearly across the board this year, state education officials said Tuesday, but they are worried the upward trend is leveling off for reading in the early grades.