EDUCATION

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Students explore career options in Great Falls

Students spent half the day listening to professionals talk about the ins and outs of their jobs and the other half in school exploring work skills.

Education foundation starts Web site

The Sidney Community Education Foundation’s purpose is to promote, maintain and improve the quality of education in the public schools of Sidney in ways that would not happen with traditional funding alone.

Nevada Budget Includes $25MM for All Day Kindergarten

"We want to help," Guinn said. "Every study we’ve had said we’re getting further and further away from doing a good job for our entire community. So that is vital to us."

Thieving viruses intrigue MSU researcher, Joel Graff

His goal is to better understand how that occurs, specifically with rotaviruses and noroviruses, said Graff, who is working on his doctoral degree. Both viruses cause gastrointestinal problems, but rotaviruses infect newborn humans and animals. Noroviruses affect adults.

University of Montana’s top priority is students, not community

When considering the proposed development of the University of Montana golf course, also known as south campus, it’s important to keep something in mind: the point of a university is to educate, and its first responsibility is to its students.

A new alliance hoping to shape pre-kindergarten to graduate school to break down educational barriers and ensure a quality future workforce has landed its biggest grant ever.

"A vision for education that establishes a direct link between education and workforce development is critical to the region’s economic vitality."

UM’s Paleontology Center celebrates $1.3 million grant

The funding launches Stanley’s decades-old dream to breathe life into UM’s paleontology programs, and to imprint the state’s youngest students with the love of fossil hunting and solving mysteries.

A new dean at Yale’s management school reinvents the curriculum to fit modern realities

There is a deep-seated belief in this institution that our mission is so important — to educate leaders for business and society — that we have to set out a model that other schools will want to emulate."

Missoula’s Franklin Elementary School earns national honors

To win, Franklin’s students and staff had to keep a record of academic success over five years. The kids not only had to post good scores on the annual tests of reading and math, higher percentages of them had to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress each year.
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In 2005, 90 percent of Franklin’s fourth-graders scored proficient or above on their statewide math tests. The Montana average for that test is just 57 percent.

BYU team takes second in national business plan competition

Thirty-eight teams competed in the contest, each team having won the business plan contest at its respective school or university (or a university-based contest open to more than one school).