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Approximately 850,000 children were receiving their education at home in 1999, according to a new report released today by the U.S. Department of Educations National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Home Schooling in the United States: 1999 reports that about 1.7 percent of children ages five through 17 — the equivalent of grades K through […]
Kentucky Governor Paul E. Patton joined several high-profile organizations and corporations on Monday, July 30, to celebrate the opening of a PowerUP learning lab at the Cowan Community Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The learning lab is the first PowerUP site in an economically distressed Appalachian county. In addition to the Cowan Community Center, which is […]
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Every day for the last three weeks, Fatima, 21, has been crossing Baghdad Street a narrow, truck-infested highway slicing through the middle of this town and stretching towards Jordan’s eastern borders to reach the newly-opened Prince Hussein Information Technology Community Centre.
Five years ago, in the heat of his re- election campaign, President Clinton urged Congress to require equipment in new television sets that would allow parents to block programs they considered inappropriate for their children.
In the dusty suburbs of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, paved roads disintegrate into muddy tracks, phones are rare, and battered three-wheeled taxis are the only means of public transportation. Many children never go to school, and even those who make it to class often fail basic literacy tests.
WPSU-FM, Penn State’s Public Broadcasting radio station, was recently recognized as the top small market radio station in two of five categories in public radio development at the Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference in Phoenix. WPSU’s Web site and overall membership efforts were both named number one in the nation for stations with weekly […]
Poorer countries can raise their living standards by changing laws, building technology infrastructure and training workers to use the Internet, a report released Monday concludes. The document urges countries to copy successful programs that use information technology to create jobs, lure investment and sell high-tech products and handmade crafts on the global market.
40 PBS Member Stations To Participate in Local/National Initiative
