EDUCATION

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.

The legislative panel crafting a school funding plan took perhaps its most significant action yet Friday, endorsing an additional state payment of $4,000 per classroom.

Know how to get a bunch of fifth-graders to run 21 miles from Maryhill to Roosevelt, Wash., in a morning?

"If you can put a man on the moon," he says, "you can give kids the food they need to make them lighter, fitter and live longer."

"I want to assure the court that the legislature and the executive branch of government are making progress in addressing the constitutional challenge in providing all Montanans access to a basic system of quality education," said Governor Brian Schweitzer. " As we continue to work together, we build a stronger education system for our children."

Still, if the region is going to position itself for long-term prosperity in the context of the emerging global economy, we need to be steadily expanding the reputation of the Rockies as a world-class center of learning. Most of that work will have to continue to be done on an institution-by-institution basis, of course—and also state by state.

“The next big killer application
for the Internet is going to be
education. Education over the
Internet is going to be so big it
is going to make e-mail usage
look like a rounding error.”

John Chambers, President and
CEO, Cisco Systems

One hundred and eighty seven students and 36 table captains attended a three-course dinner complete with exotic wines paired with each course as part of Career Week. Carina Beck, director of MSU Career Services, and her team put on the dinner, hoping that the experience would help prepare students for future social and business events.

"Making our laptop access simpler and easier is an example on a small scale of the much more powerful I-Light technology," he continued. "And we should continue to work toward extending these capabilities across Indiana to other universities, colleges and related organizations."