EDUCATION

While much more research is needed, the report finds that students do seem to benefit from career courses, and that the best mode is through individual counseling (not just computers) starting in the middle schools.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, an organization in Kansas City, Mo., that encourages entrepreneurship, is also pushing to make entrepreneurship classes more accessible.

A majority of American entrepreneurs do not come out of business schools, said Carl J. Schramm, the foundation’s president and chief executive, and, yet, unless you are a business major, "The hardest place to take a course is often in the business school."

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"Reaching out to businesses is one of the most enduring legacies he will have left us," Poston said.

"That’s something that will make us stronger long into the future."

Several council members said the science center — which will have hands-on, interactive activities for people from fourth grade on up — could be helpful in getting youngsters interested in tech careers.

"If you think about why we choose the career we’re in, I’d say that 75 percent could say it was one person or one experience," council member Suzanne Winters said. "This science center would turn on the general population to the opportunities in science and engineering technology."

The University of Montana and Montana State University-Bozeman will collaborate to offer a new master’s and doctoral degree program in neuroscience. UM also gained approval to offer a doctorate in bio-molecular structure and dynamics as well as another doctoral degree in anthropology, with an emphasis on cultural heritage studies.

The resulting entity, the Cambridge-M.I.T. Institute, offers three one-year graduate programs (with three additional ones to begin in October) with the aim to cultivate Britain’s future technology entrepreneurs, create jobs and spur growth in the British technology sector.

The program, developed by Virginia-based K12, combines technology such as electronic “smart boards” and computer graphics with a back-to-basics curriculum that stresses strategies such as phonics. The approach counts on children´s fascination with technology to engage them in learning and lets parents access their kids´ lessons at home.