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Business leaders have a particularly important role
to play.

With Industrious Kid, Symons and some partners hope to answer thelarger need — that is the desire of kids 8 to 14 who may want to create blogs and express themselves to friends via the Web but who would be safer not to have that stuff broadcast to the whole world.

Olin College is the answer to an extraordinary question: If a foundation offered $460 million to start an undergraduate college of engineering from scratch, what would it be like? Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering is like few other schools. It has no academic departments. No tenure. No tuition. And more female students and professors, percentage-wise, than almost any other U.S. engineering school.

Students can apply for The Governor’s Postsecondary Scholarship at http://www.mgslp.org or http://www.mt.gov. The application deadline is March 31.

"Teaching kids about food is as important as math or science,"

"Businesses in this country are putting pressure on the education system to reform," he said. "Students have got to develop core academic skills based on real-world expectations if they are going to be successful."

"It will help our students understand how to thrive in a changing economy, and it will teach them how to learn on-line, something they will need to do throughout their work lives."

A career pathway is a coherent, articulated sequence
of rigorous academic and career courses, commencing
in the ninth grade and leading to an associate degree,
an industry-recognized certificate or licensure, or a
baccalaureate degree and beyond.

An education and business initiative to design a radically new curriculum for Kalispell’s high school students is attracting statewide attention.

Local school and work-force leaders are being invited to speak with university groups, state education officials and others who want to hear about School District 5’s proposal for developing career clusters.

Economic development in most states means throwing money at companies with the hope of luring them. But spending on young children is a better investment.