EDUCATION

Boise State University’s science and engineering programs could lead the college’s transformation to a research school while helping improve Idaho’s economy, BSU President Bob Kustra said Wednesday.

Stewart is one of scores of experts from academia, government and elsewhere offering free advice to students needing homework help — as long as they’re motivated by curiosity and aren’t merely lazy.

“What could be more directly relevant to our lives than the public education system?” says Brown, who’s assembled “blue-ribbon panels of people with a wonderful depth and breadth of knowledge” to address the education issues currently facing Montana.

"From an engineering standpoint, the future leaders of the world are going to come from the Pacific Rim."

Both the US government and corporations need to let American students know that the technology they love is designed by people in high- paying, rewarding jobs. It’s time to print up the campaign posters: We need you to be a computer scientist.

Under her direction, teachers and those studying to be teachers learn about technology skills for the classroom. I am a native Idahoan, and I love the state. I had to leave for my doctorate and when I walked out in the morning, I would gaze west toward Idaho, yearning for the day when I would be back.

The only place I ever wanted to be is here.

"It helps to realize the promise of equity that was one of the great ideas at the beginning. Now every seventh- and eighth-grader in Maine not only has access at school but also access to the Internet and all of the information it contains at home," King said.

Schools ARE a center of their communities, they don’t need to "become." The fact that the schools are struggling is so outrageous precisely because it affects the daily lives (as well as future) of a huge number of people, and a cross-section of the community.

"There has been a sea change over the last 10 years. Marketing used to be almost a dirty word in higher education."

Ed Board members want high school kids to take more math and science, complete a senior project and devote more than half of their electives to career development.