Montana Education Excellence

A lot of other classes are suffering from senioritis, but for whatever reason this group hasn’t gotten it yet.

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"I’m a firm believer the entire state is our campus," she said, "because we are a land-grant university."

The Rural Montana Saves program is a special matched savings program that is helping families with limited incomes save for job training or college education.

Millions of dollars are being requested for such projects as turning coal into synthetic gas, building a federal livestock research lab in Bozeman and finding new “Star Wars” technologies to kill missile threats from outer space.

Should we start hiring people who are more in line with Montana wages or allow the educational bureaucracy to continue this ‘leap frog’ mentality that is now present in higher education?

Butte schools will have a new Web site next month that administrators say will be far more user-friendly for students, parents and teachers.

The Greater Ravalli Foundation has set aside $10,000 that it will use to match donations from the public to pay for educational needs at Ravalli County high schools. That $20,000 could, in turn, be matched by the Gates Foundation to provide a total of $40,000 for local schools.

“Your activity with any digital device is public and permanent. Poor digital judgment often leads to immediate, life-altering and irreversible consequences. You are responsible for all of your actions when using digital technology.”

Dr. Tom McCoy Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer Full Slideshow: http://www.wiche.edu/info/walf/meetings/nwaf/NWAF2006Presentations/TomMcCoy.pdf