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Despite a Doctorate and Top Students, Unqualified to Teach
TO call this situation perverse, to ascribe it to the principle of unintended consequences, is to be, if anything, too reasonable.
Agreement Gives All 1.2 million Libyan Kids Laptops
One Laptop per Child, which has the support of the United Nations Development Program, aims to provide laptops to school-aged children worldwide at a cost of about $100 per computer. It has also reached tentative purchase agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria and Thailand.
$1.3 million UM grant to boost fossil study in eastern Montana training middle school teachers and students on better ways to hunt for fossils
“It’s a way of bringing technology into the classroom that enhances teaching and learning,” Almquist said. “We plan to use the excitement people have about fossils to make them think about various scientific concepts in new ways.”
Measuring Up- Higher Education 2006 – national report card for higher education and fifty state report cards.
Its purpose is to provide the public and policymakers with information to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state.
Dr. George Haynes of Montana State University wins one of 19 SBA award to "Interpret the relationship between veterans’ income and wealth." Research Results Will Deepen Understanding Of Small Business Issues
“The United States is a leader in the world’s economy,” said Dr. Chad Moutray, Chief Economist for the Office of Advocacy. “The results of these studies will help policymakers understand how small business led the way in achieving that status, and how public policy can affect this dynamic sector of the economy.”
Recent State STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Initiatives. What can your state learn from these examples?
71% of Americans believe that "our nation’s public high schools are coming up short or falling behind in efforts to put students on the path to compete for highly
technical scientific and engineering jobs with their counterparts from other countries."
Montana Teacher of the Year – Passion for the past – Whitefish’s Gary Carmichael has been hooked on history since he was a kid
“You always have to push the envelope,” Carmichael said, “for yourself, and for your students.”
MAPS, Media Arts In The Public Schools Concert Fundraisers, 10/14, Bozeman, 10/21 Hamilton, 11/11, Helena
“We look at kids as partners and colleagues,” says Rosten, who plans to expand the program to five more communities in 2007. “It really empowers students, and makes them believe in themselves.”
Low science, math education funding threatens California’s tech leadership
"California has a window of opportunity to prepare the highly educated work force we need to maintain our position as an economic leaders," said Bill Hauck, president of the California Business Roundtable, at a press conference this spring. "If California fails to provide this work force in time, we are likely to lose the edge we now have over other states and international competitors."
California’s schools — once leaders — now laggards. California underspends every state in the United States on education except for Louisiana and Mississippi
In the 1960s and 1970s, when California public schools produced scores indicating high-achieving students, spending per pupil here exceeded the national average by about $400 a pupil, RAND said. Beginning in the 1980s, California lagged
the nation in spending per pupil. Now, it spends about $1,000 less per student than the national average.
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