by Lauren Drell | May 12, 2010 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON – Forty witnesses flocked to the Capitol today to convince Congress to appropriate funding to their respective organizations in fiscal year 2011. They each presented four-minute testimonies to the House Appropriations Committee’s Labor, Health &...
by Danny Yadron | May 12, 2010 | Education
WASHINGTON – Education Secretary Arne Duncan helped third-graders build battery-powered cars Wednesday, part of the latest push to help American pupils play catch-up with their Asian and European counterparts in the hard sciences. The effort, a MacArthur Foundation...
by Lahaina Mae Mondonedo | May 11, 2010 | Education, Topics
WASHINGTON -Conservative leader David Cameron moves to 10 Downing St. as Britain’s new prime minister after the resignation of Labor Party’s Gordon Brown late Tuesday. At 43, Cameron will be the youngest prime minister since 1812 after only nine years in Parliament....
by Lauren Drell | May 10, 2010 | Education
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Students take photos at Truesdell Elementary in Washington. Lauren Drell/MNS WASHINGTON- Thanks to Adam Levner and Heather Rieman, more than 800 middle and high schoolers have developed an eye for photography and advocacy....
by Camille Doty | May 5, 2010 | Education
NASA Astronaut Jose M. Hernandez tells these Youthbuild Charter School students they can reach for stars. (Camille M. Doty/MNS) WASHINGTON -The Department of Labor held the first webcast for Latino students to discuss the barriers they face entering science and math...
by Danny Yadron | May 4, 2010 | Education
Preschool’s latest recession victims. WASHINGTON – The recession quieted years of progress in America’s preschools, a problem only likely to worsen as states come to terms with gutted tax rolls, according to a study released this week. Although most states still...
