Archaeologists lift up the corpse of a woman from a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) coffin that was accidentally discovered in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. The body was well preserved to the point that eyelashes and body hairs were all visible....
President Barack Obama, saying the future is ours to win, urged Congress to invest in education, high-speed rail and Internet access while warning that the nation risks being buried under a mountain of debt. In his annual State of the Union address, Obama stressed that Americans are turning a corner on the worst recession since the Great Depression and bringing troops home from wars on two fronts. He challenged a divided Congress to put partisanship and divisiveness behind and do big things. Sustaining the American dream has never been about standing pat, Obama said in his 62-minute speech to...
Google is talking with makers of educational software to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion this year. Games and instructional tools for teachers from companies such as San Francisco's Grockit Inc. and Aviary Inc. are already offered in the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store that opened in March. Google seeks to lure more educational developers, company executives said. Software sales for colleges and kindergarten through 12th grade this year should surpass the $4.6 billion in 2009, according to Parthenon Group LLC, and...
The teeth are older than most of the hominin specimens previously found in southwest Asia, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University who used advanced imagining technology, comparative analysis and an examination of the earth and debris around the fossils to date them to 300,000 to 400,000 years ago. This region of the world has been a crossroads for human population movements for a very long period of time and is situated just outside of Africa and just outside of Europe, said Quam, one of the studys researchers. While the features arent a direct match to Neanderthals or early modern...
The call comes after a succession of new teachers have been unable to find jobs as a result of the current schools recruitment crisis. Last month, official figures showed fewer than one in six new teachers had found a full-time, permanent job in 2009/10, the lowest figure on record. However, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the countrys largest teaching union, believes the situation is far worse because of the thousands of teachers who could not get jobs in previous years. They argue that a Scottish Government pledge to offer sufficient vacancies for all those finishing their proba...
The Texas NAACP and the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens have filed a request with the U.S. Department of Education asking that curriculum changes made by Texas' Board of Education in May not be implemented because they are racially offensive and historically inaccurate. The civil rights groups contend that decisions like the one to highlight the Black Panthers as a violent group while downplaying the violent tactics of the Ku Klux Klan were made with the intention to discriminate and would have a stigmatizing impact on African American and Latino students. We want to be populati...
What standards should career education programs have to qualify for federal student grants and loans? The U.S. Department of Education already has drafted a gainful employment rule that could limit the flow of taxpayer-backed student aid to some educa...
Jerry Brown said Tuesday that public schools in California should brace for more budget cuts when he presents his spending proposal in the next few weeks to solve the state's $25.4 billion budget deficit. I can't promise there won't be more cuts, because there will be, he told a gathering of school administrators, teachers union representatives and other public education officials from across the state during a special budget forum in Los Angeles. The Democrat called education and public safety the pillars of a civilized society but warned that the magnitude of the deficit problem facing Calif...
India and France on Monday signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) on higher education, and also decided to take forward 2009 `Plan of Action for IIT-Rajasthan' by setting up a French consortium that will help the institute gain expertise in areas like health technology, solar energy, aerospace, quantum computing and several other fields. The second one relates to academic collaboration between seven IITs and ParisTech -- Paris Institute of Science and Technology, Paris. The seven IITs are located in Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati and Roorkee. AgroParisTech, Arts et...
Quite a few school districts in states that won taxpayers dollars in the Education Departments $4 billion Race to the Top competition have concluded they really wont accept the money since, in most instances, officials believe it is more troublesome to accept it. And then there is Superintendent Bill Matthews of the Jones County School district near Macon, Ga.The Washington Post reports that, in Ohio, which won $400 million in the Race sweepstakes, more than two dozen districts and public charter schools say they think it will cost them more than they will get from the federal government to im...
Global Education Technology Group Ltd., a provider of education services including foreign language training and test prep, said Monday its third-quarter profit nearly doubled on a boost in revenue. The company, based in Beijing, earned 24.6 million renminbi, ($3.7 million, or 7 cents per American Depository Share), up from 12.6 million renminbi, a year prior. Revenue rose 47 percent to 127.8 renminbi ($19.1 million) from 86.8 million renminbi. The company launched its IPO in October. Our rapid growth in revenue and strong operating cash flows demonstrate the advantages of our business model a...
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan Thursday pressed lawmakers to start debating a proposed law that would allow children of illegal immigrants to go to US universities. Duncan said he hoped lawmakers will start debate and ultimately pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act during the lame duck session of Congress which began this week. If the DREAM Act becomes law, each year some 55,000 youngsters who came to the United States illegally as children or who were born here to undocumented immigrant parents, would be allowed to go to university after completing high...
