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15 Inspiring TED Talks for Freshman Year

The TED speaker series features "ideas worth spreading."

Obama Vows to Shame Colleges Into Keeping Costs Down

Colleges would be rated on measures such as affordability and outcomes, including graduation and transfer rates. Students at top-performing colleges could receive larger federal grants and more affordable student loans.

Nurturing a STEM Sisterhood

We, as adults, must now nurture that interest. Teachers are already heavily engaged in that goal, but STEM involvement doesn’t end in the classroom, so the other members of the village must do their part as well.

Community colleges graduate to 4-year programs

Florida is one of 21 states across the USA where community colleges are expanding into the baccalaureate world.

U.S. Schools Need More STEM Training, Better Broadband

In a video address to participants in Maker Camp, an online summer camp for teenagers, Duncan hailed the virtual program, saying that "it shows the power of online learning."

"The Heart of the Matter" The Humanities and Social Sciences for a vibrant, competitive, and secure nation

At the very moment when China and some European nations are seeking to repli

cate our model of broad education in the humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences–as a stimulus to innovation and a source of social cohesion–we are instead
narrowing our focus and abandoning our sense of what education has been and should
continue to be–our sense of what makes America great.

Stanford undergraduate organizes bioengineering boot camp for high school students

"This is a discipline for the future and priming the pipeline with students is something we need to do."

The One Trillion Reasons To Rethink How Higher Education Funding Works

Greg pointed me to this awesome TEDx Talk that he did recently on the topic. I just watched it – if you are interested in higher education in any way it’s worth 12 minutes of your life to watch it right now.

The Best Way to Teach Kids Math and Science? Zombies

Yes, zombies. Zombies on graphing calculators, no less.

President Obama pushes ambitious Internet access plan for schools

White House senior advisers have described the little-known proposal, announced earlier this summer under the name ConnectEd, as one of the biggest potential achievements of Obama’s second term.