Education News

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office designed the program to inspire K-12 students’ creativity and teach the value of patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

Hand-held device developed by a Chicago-based non-profit teaches students reading and math and lets teachers program tools, track their progress

Freshman failure rates, measured by the numbers of students failing and classes being failed, have dropped by at least 50 percent since the program’s inception two years ago.

"The idea is to get students thinking about renewable energy sources and help them make changes in their lives."

ll participating students or teams of students can claim a $10 voucher redeemable for purchase of an object available at the UW’s SWAP (Surplus With A Purpose) Shop. Students will then have 100 hours to take their best shot at doing something entrepreneurial with their SWAP object.

The engineers’ real-life perspective is a significant component of A World in Motion — a
classroom curriculum developed by SAE International, a Marshall-based engineering
industry association — which is being utilized in more than 400 school districts in the United
States and Canada. For its efforts to promote science and engineering education to children
as early as kindergarten and through the college level, SAE is one of two recipients of the
National Science Board’s 2008 Public Service Award

The goal of the Alice project is to provide a positive first experience with computer programming (currently the most common gateway to computer science), to middle school students through college freshman.

With home foreclosures at record highs, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke stressed in a speech that young people must sharpen their financial knowledge so they are in a better position to make sound investment decisions throughout their lives.

Pittwater High has taken an active stand on the issue of global warming and climate change. We have taken this because we believe that the only way to ensure that our students have a sustainable future is to take action now and show our communities and our nation that a zero ecological footprint approach is possible and indeed necessary in the medium term for the sustainability of all human activities.

An online, non-profit university has special federal scholarships for rural educators.