Thompsonville High School Using State-Of-The-Art Tools To Spur Learning
THOMPSONVILLE — Bigger isn’t necessarily better, Thompsonville High School Superintendent Steve Webb believes.
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‘It’s in the Country’s Best Interest for Poor Folks to be Smart’
The most compelling opportunities for social entrepreneurs are the public schools. Gene Wade has been dreaming about fixing the public schools since he was a kid. Now he’s doing it.
Web Site Celebrates School Spirit
Mina Ajrab opened up an electronic high school scrapbook for everyone to see.
Colleges Post Average Rise in Tuition of 5 Percent
The nation’s colleges and universities raised tuition and fees for students by roughly 5 percent this year, capping a decade of price increases that are steadily outpacing family income.
Congress Weighing Internet Filtering For Schools, Libraries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Republicans are promoting legislation that would force schools and libraries to use Internet filtering software or lose federal dollars intended to help buy Web access. The effort is alienating civil liberties groups, conservatives and industry executives.
College Getting More Expensive
(AP) The price of a college degree continues to rise faster than inflation, with tuition and fees at public four-year colleges up an average 4.4 percent this fall, even more at private schools, a new survey has found.
Nova Southeastern University to Host Cyber Peace Mission: WORLDLINK 2000 to Celebrate United Nations Day
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct 12, 2000 — Students from all over the world will communicate via cyberspace for 24 hours on October 24th, United Nations Day, at the Nova Southeastern University North Miami Beach campus. The largest cyber event of its kind, WORLDLINK 2000, will unite nearly 300 students, ages 6-18 from the Miami-Dade […]
Marconi Foundation Honors Inventors of the Key to Internet Privacy
Two innovators receive the 26th annual Marconi International Fellowship award presented at Columbia University. Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman will share the $100,000 fellowship prize honoring advances in telecommunications for humanitarian benefit for their mathematical formulations developed nearly 25 years ago that unleashed the key to private communications and secure transactions on the Internet.
The Virtual Microscope
The Virtual Microscope is a development project at The Open University between the Multimedia Enabling Technologies Group and the Department of Earth Sciences.