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“Back to School, Moving Forward: What No Child Left Behind Means for America’s Families.” This is the first of 3 brochures explaining what the President’s education plan, “No Child Left Behind,” means for parents, schools, & communities. It is available in English & Spanish at the Department’s new Back to School, Moving Forward website: http://www.ed.gov/backtoschool/
My name is Dawna Fennewald. I am married with two grown daughters, and I work in the Distance Learning Office at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville, IL. I became interested in online courses from seeing them offered here at Southwestern Illinois College.
The MIT Sloan School of Management and Merrill Lynch took the concept of distance learning and improved on it. The two institutions – as part of an ongoing partnership -successfully adapted a popular MBA investments course for electronic delivery to financial professionals worldwide. A select group of 28 Merrill Lynch directors, vice presidents, analysts and […]
Western Governors University (WGU) announced at its quarterly Board of Trustees meeting today that the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation has joined the University’s National Advisory Board, and has made a contribution of $250,000 to WGU. Bess Stephens, President and Executive Director of the HP Company Foundation, will be joining 22 other corporate, foundation, and higher education […]
What good is clout if you never use it? That’s what officials at the giant California State University System were thinking when they recently sought generous terms in a new deal for electronic library books.
Contact: Cara White (843/881-1480; carapub@aol.com) (San Francisco, CA)-ITVS presents Matthew Testa’s THE BUFFALO WAR a provocative chronicle of the clash between Native Americans, ranchers, government officials and environmental activists over the killing of America’s last wild buffalo herd. Winner of Best Environmental Documentary at the 44th San Francisco International Film Festival and the Jury Prize […]
A new generation of scrappy search engines is emerging to challenge the dominance of mighty Google.
First came the International Executive Service Corps, a group that shipped retired U.S. businessmen to poor countries to help small businesses grow into large ones.
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today announced that 102 colleges and universities that serve a significant number of disadvantaged or minority students will receive grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The awards will provide $27.2 million to improve academic programs, including engineering and science studies, facilities, fiscal management and planning, and student services. […]
Caliber Learning Network (OTC Bulletin Board: CLBRQ – news) today announced it has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to authorize a sale of substantially all of its assets to Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. for $750,000 pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement dated August 13, 2001. The sale is subject to Bankruptcy Court approval and is […]