Navy Looks to Sailors to Improve Voluntary Education Program
The working group is tasked with conducting a complete review of the VOLED program and soliciting input from the fleet to improve the program for the future.Read the Full Story
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Family Education Network Launches HomeSchoolerNetwork.com
Family Education Network, part of Pearson Education, the global leader in educational publishing, announced today the launch of HomeSchoolerNetwork.com, a Web site offering a wide variety of educational materials for the 1.1 million U.S. children now being homeschooled each year. Homeschoolers represent 2.2 of the school-age population in the U.S., up 29% since 1999. HomeSchoolerNetwork […]
Kaplan Launches New Online Test Prep Programs for GMAT(R) and GRE(R)
To help would-be business and graduate students prepare for their entrance exams while juggling competing demands, Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a pioneer in online education and the largest provider of test prep worldwide, is launching new online courses for the GMAT(R) and GRE(R). The GMAT(R), Graduate Management Admissions Test, is the required exam for […]
Back to school means back to the sofa for some home schoolers
She’s curled up on her family’s velvety brown sofa flipping through a book of math problems when the mood strikes. She pulls her bare feet out from underneath her, pads to the kitchen and comes back, pancakes in hand, to her workbook.Read the Full Story
College students commemorate Deng Xiaoping online
The forum, with the theme “Deng Xiaoping in our hearts,” was launched by the Ministry of Education-sponsored website, www.univchina.org, and drew thousands of students from universities nationwide, including the prestigious Beijing, Qinghua and Fudan universities. Read the Full Story
Distance Learning Closes the Gap
Will McKendree is hoping to finish up an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business by August, 2005, and then earn a master’s of finance the following year. The 26-year-old mid-Atlantic regional assistant for J Crew hopes the two degrees will make him more marketable as he moves up in the retail world. Read […]
Healthy Habits Help College Students Make the Grade – in the Classroom and in Life
But if kept in check, basic daily functions, such as sleeping, breathing, movement and eating, can help a student excel.Read the Full Story
Home Schooling Is on the Rise
The estimated figure of students taught at home has grown 29 percent since 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Education Department. Read the Full Story
Parents ‘Unaware of Children’s Online Activities’
Research into nine to 19-year-olds who go online at least once a week has shown 57% have come into contact with pornography and a third have received unwanted sexual or nasty comments.Read the Full Story
State Firefighters Pick Up Online Training
A new partnership between the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS) and Massachusetts Colleges Online (MCO) will help make training for similar scenarios somewhat easier in the future by creating an online learning model.Starting April 19, Massachusetts firefighters for the first time were able to study online during their downtime at the firehouse rather than […]
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