- A Radical Vision For Education.
When students and teachers have more flexibility and control, results will improve, one expert argues. By the year 2020, public education in the United States will undergo a total, radical transformation, branch and root. The revolution will be unofficial; it will not come from any one source or group but ......
- A SERIOUS GAME OF SUCCESS
More than 70 businesses in Maryland produce computer and video game products. According to Digital Game Forecast, positions in the video game industry such as game designers, producers, artists, character animators, video and audio engineers, software engineers, and network and technical support will be in high demand over the next ......
- When college sends a professor to high school
HEADNOTE Medical Terminology and Medical Careers Courses Integration Students from India, Africa, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic are among those joining American students taking Medical Careers at Thomas Edison High School of Technology. Five secondary schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, operate the program, which is designed to intrigue and captivate ......
- Distance-learning firm builds national customer base
SYRACUSE - Hezel Associates helps educational clients ensure their information highways are headed in the right direction. Founded in 1987 by Richard T. Hezel, Ph.D., Hezel Associates, LLC provides research, evaluation, and strategic services for education-sector clients. The consulting firm has earned a national reputation in the field of distance ......
- Retooling education.
From the introduction of wide area networking to high school programs that prepare students to be Webmasters, technology is revolutionizing the nature of teaching. Education is the agent to retool society. Rather than a catalyst for change, education too often seems like a genie in a bottle, held captive by ......
- Long Island education in 2006: Scandals, scrutiny and Big Brother
It was a year of disgraced school officials admitting outright thievery as they stood in court listening to stiff prison sentences and severe fines raining down on them. A year of district leaders resigning under fire. A year of taxpayers in some locales angrily voting to turn down projected school ......
- Higher Education.
The NBER's Working Group on Higher Education met in Cambridge on April 28. Group Director Charles T. Clotfelter of Duke University organized this program: Jill M. Constantine and Nell S. Seftor, Mathematica Policy Research, "A Study of the Effect of Talent Search on Secondary and Postsecondary Outcomes in Florida, Indiana, ......