World Math Day 2011: Registration is open! Students across the U.S. are preparing to join millions from across the world to participate in the largest online math competition during World Math Day 2011 on February 28. World Math Day is the world’s largest education event, with 2.5 million students from 55,000 schools in 235 countries [...]
The recently approved initiative that aims to make it a felony to be undocumented immigrants in the state of Arizona, generated a heated rally in downtown Phoenix, in which nine people were arrested. The nine detainees are protesting against the bill SB 1070, passed Wednesday in the Arizona Senate, chained to a gate of the [...]
The National Society of Hispanic MBAs’ Scholarship Program Since its creation in 1989, NSHMBA’s Scholarship Program has given millions to talented, motivated Hispanics This year marks the organization’s twenty-first year of its Scholarship Program and its support of Hispanics and their educational goals of pursuing and earning their Masters in Business Administration or equivalent degree. [...]
More than 100 student teams from around the globe will drive their specially crafted lunar rovers through a challenging course of rugged, moon-like terrain at NASA’s 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Ala., April 9-10. Some 1,088 high school, college and university students from 20 states and Puerto Rico, Canada, Germany, Bangladesh, Serbia, India [...]
The U.S. education system neglects the needs of our gifted and talented students, leaving the nation ill-prepared to identify and effectively serve high-potential students, a new survey reports. The report – 2008-2009 State of the States in Gifted Education by the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of State Directors of Programs for [...]
An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis. Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern University in Houston developed the experiment that will fly as part of the STS-129 mission. The mission is scheduled to launch at 2:28 p.m. EST on Nov. [...]
A recent survey of 10,000 university students by the University of Reading, found that 75% of students download music, rather than buy in stores or pay for on music-streaming sites. Despite the recent popularity of music-streaming sites such as Spotify, 75 percent said they wouldn’t pay for a music-streaming service but would rather use sites [...]
Verizon Thinkfinity.org Provides Teachers, Parents, Students and After-School Programs With Thousands of Engaging Educational Resources From the stories of the Spanish missions, to the artists of the Mexican Revolution to the little-known story of the Bracero guest worker program, Hispanic Heritage Month offers a unique opportunity to celebrate the diverse history and important contributions Latinos [...]
Alameda Unified School District Adopts Lesbian, Gay, Transgender Education for Students as Young as Five Years Old Providing yet another example of the threat that gay marriage and the gay agenda provides to school children and parental authority, the Alameda Unified School District last evening adopted a new curriculum, over the objections of hundreds of [...]
Accounting firms and corporations are watching with great interest how quickly the Obama administration will move to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards for U.S.-listed companies, according to an international accounting expert. When the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an interest in moving U.S. companies to IFRS a few years ago, corporations and accounting firms realized [...]