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Entrepreneurs of the future at BSU

Teams of would-be entrepreneurs will converge on the Boise State University campus and Boise Depot May 1 to 3 for what organizers expect to be the first annual Northwest Venture Championship — a student competition…

New investment to create 70 small high schools across the country

Foundation gives more than $40 million to enable students to graduate with high school diploma and associate’s degree Contact: Carol Rava Treat Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Phone: 206.709.3400, E-mail: [email protected] NEW YORK – To…

High-tech teaching in Helena

E. Helena gets futuristic classroom. The classroom of the future might look something like Mike Agostinelli’s sixth grade social studies class at East Valley Middle School. By LAURA TODE, IR Staff Writer – For the…

Service learning, touted for getting students in touch with real world

Montana State University English student Lance Novak was pretty nervous about talking about short stories with 90-year-old ladies at a Bozeman retirement home, but it helped him understand literary criticism better. By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle…

Digital literacy is essential for students

Two prominent foundations have declared that the world needs to set new standards for what it means to be literate in the 21st century. By Cara Branigan, Assistant Editor, eSchool News “For the first time…

Kamen: We Need More Geeks Now!

The Pied Piper of technology gave a party for young geeks this weekend, but not enough kids could come out to play. By Michelle Delio Wired.com Teams from 38 high schools engaged in a heated…

High school student helps launch internet telescope

If most high school students ever get to see the Horsehead Nebula, it’s by looking at a book, or a slide in science class. From eSchool News staff and wire service reports But thanks to…

Lilith: Geek Music to Girls’ Ears

It’s a familiar story: A middle school girl stops going to the computer lab after school because boys hog the machines. That was Susannah Camic’s experience. It bothered her enough that she wrote a 10th-grade…

Idaho schools use Net to reach parents

Nampa district puts attendance, grades online NAMPA — The Nampa School District is enlisting new allies to make sure that students are attending school and keeping up their grades: parents. Idaho Statesman And district educators…

Tech Sector Partnership Effort to Help Close Industry’s Skills Gap

Responding to the demands of business leaders to close the nation’s workforce skills gap, the National Skill Standards Board (NSSB) has created the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Voluntary Partnership to represent the telecommunications, computer…