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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…

Technical education partnership benefits Kentucky students

Gov. Paul Patton announced today a technical education partnership that creates a more seamless path to postsecondary education and training for Kentucky high school students, allowing them to get a head start on their college…

High-tech education still a high priority in Colorado

Denver’s first High-Tech High School – aimed at getting more low-income kids into high-tech careers- should open as early as 2003, state officials announced here Monday. By Jennifer Beauprez Denver Post Business Writer The school…

Tech talk turns to Colorado’s standing

ASPEN — The technology boom and bust of the past half-decade laid the foundation for a new world economy, one tech entrepreneur said Sunday. By Janet Forgrieve , Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer "We just…

A Mad Scramble for Internships

Summer jobs this year are few and far between. That’s sparking a flurry of new thinking by administrators and students alike No one is interested in classes. Everyone is focused on recruiting. That’s how first-year…

Not Making The Grade -Teachers have a tough time trying to live in San Francisco

When Steve Bush joined Galileo High School’s English Department in 1999, he already had a picture of what the future might hold for him. by Carol Lloyd, special to SF Gate Tuesday, March 12, 2002…

UM launches economic study to prove its worth

In a major effort to convince Montanans that the university system is a lucrative business — rather than a bottomless pit of expenses — UM is launching a three-part study to measure the economic impact…