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As Governor, this awesome responsibility demands a sober assessment of our educational system — an objective assessment that compares our children’s performance to those nationally and globally, where our children will compete. To do anything less is unfair to both our children and our citizens.Read the Full Story
What’s hot now? What was hot just after the Y2K rant and rave? What’s changed? In addition to looking closely at results of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey,1 this article considers six years’ worth of trends as measured by what campus leaders have seen as the most critical IT challenges in higher education.Read the […]
May 10, 2005 | In the early 1970s a civil war erupted inside the fledgling world of public television. Upset with what they saw as its liberal news and public affairs programming, and particularly its tough coverage of the Vietnam War and the Watergate hearings, Nixon administration officials moved to rein in public television by […]
The solution at issue–funded locally in Fort Worth with more than $15 million–has received an additional $45 million elsewhere through unusual, “earmarked” federal funding arrangements. An “earmark” in legislative parlance is money designated for a specific purpose and recipient–in this case, a for-profit company.Read the Full Story
Nowhere are pressures more visible than in Italy. â€The duopoly of state and private broadcasters has resulted in (Prime Minister Silvio) Berlusconi running a TV monopoly,†Marco Travaglio, journalist and author told IPS.Read the Full Story
Tuesday offered more evidence that academic misconduct may not be quite the isolated incident that NCAA partisans would suggest, and that the emergence of distance education provides a new playground for such misbehavior.Read the Full Story
But budgetary realities have kept most school districts and states from achieving this dream. Now, as one state moves toward implementing a one-to-one desktop computer program, another appears poised to cut funding entirely from its statewide laptop initiative.Read the Full Story
The ruling means that people who make or watch digital recordings of TV shows will not have to decide this summer whether to upgrade their equipment.Read the Full Story
Lt. John Kolakowski, a South River officer for 24 years, agreed to a settlement drafted by borough labor attorneys Scarinci & Hollenbeck, of Lyndhurst. The Borough Council approved the agreement on April 25.Read the Full Story
The April 22 letter from Reps. Joe L. Barton of Texas, the committee’s chairman, and Edward Whitfield of Kentucky, who chairs its oversight and investigations subcommittee, finds fault with a district press release on its Web site titled “National E-rate Investigations Not Focused on APS.†Read the Full Story
