EDUCATION

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Colleges understand their role in reviving Michigan’s economy

Without some kind of training after high school, a lot of New Economy jobs are not an option for all but the most entrepreneurial. Period.

PPL money helps kids learn about power generation

PPL Montana received more than 80 applications requesting a total of nearly $650,000 in funding for the fall grant cycle.

School panel withdraws plan providing classroom funding in Montana

The move, endorsed 5-3 by the Quality Schools Interim Committee, negates what had been one of the panel’s most significant actions yet – a $4,000-per-classroom funding increase.

Education: The State We’re In

Individual state report cards provide a comprehensive look at education in each of the 50 states.

MSU responding to new regents’ goals ~ improving the state’s economy is high on the list.

Now MSU administrators and professors are busy compiling lists to show the regents what MSU is already doing, as well as collecting ideas for new initiatives that might cost money.

Software helps schools manage sensitive information

"The reason is what is happening at universities and companies today with the focus on security and compliance with new laws. It is a huge focus across the board," she said.

Education in Montana ~ At the brink of an historic moment

The time for patience is over. The time for action is now.

University extension offices can be a remarkably valuable network to transform a rural economy.

The Purdue Extension, which has provided agricultural, leadership and family-sciences programs to generations of Indiana farm families, is retooling one of its missions to focus on economic development.

Business Technology: Competitiveness, Truth, And Today’s Universities

Some universities seem to shrug at the very suggestion that they adapt to the times and take measures to address this situation; their attitude seems to be, "Dude, we’re in the demand-fulfillment business, not demand creation. If the little darlings wanna drop $150K to major in Graffiti Studies or Existential Anthropology, it’s my job to deliver. And what happens to them after they graduate? Not in my job description, yo."

Why kids don’t get math and what Idaho schools are doing about it

Only a third of Idaho’s sixth-graders and half of its eighth-graders successfully completed a different 2005 statewide exam in which students had to show their work in solving math problems.