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It's cool to be smart. That was one of the messages Grand Rapids School Superintendent Bernard Taylor expressed during his State of The Schools report Saturday. The report placed an emphasis on improving the district's high schools. While ...
2009-02-21 04:09:00
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A math team from Hempstead High School recently received a "regional outstanding" rating for a paper it submitted in a mathematical-modeling competition. The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications spon- sored the 11th annual High School ...
2009-02-21 01:38:00
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Mumbai: When my sister Anandita was in her teens, every day for about a year, she would get a phone call from my aunt after every meal, demanding an account of what she had eaten. Each call would involve long discussions on whether Anandita had stuck ...
2009-02-21 03:47:00
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1942 was a year of travail and tribulation for S. Thomas' College. "On April 5th 1942, the Warden was informed that the school was to be handed over within five days to the military authorities. On 9th April, the sub warden, Dr. R.L. Hayman was sent ...
2009-02-21 03:11:00
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As part of National Engineers Week, Feb. 15-21, 2009, the Raytheon Company (Waltham, Mass.) is hosting a series of hands-on mathematics and science demonstrations at Disney's Epcot Theme Park, in Orlando, Fla. Raytheon engineers will show students ...
2009-02-17 08:35:00
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To commemorate National Engineers Week, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT - News) engineers used ping pong balls and robots to challenge middle school students to embrace the sciences and mathematics and eventual careers as engineers and scientists ...
2009-02-21 03:47:00
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Lord May of Oxford, president-elect of the British Science Association, said efforts to make science subjects more attractive and accessible for pupils have resulted in a curriculum which contains too much "waffle" and exams which have replaced key ...
2009-02-21 04:44:00
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Commission on Higher Education (Ched) Chairman Dr. Emmanuel Angeles yesterday reiterated his appeal to private schools not to raise tuition and exercise “social responsibility” in the wake of the global economic slowdown. Angeles said school ...
2009-02-21 08:09:00
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The following events will be held at Brookline High School, 115 Greenough St.: “A Conversation on the Brookline High Curriculum — Part I: The Traditional Academic Disciplines” — Tuesday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. All parents of eighth-graders are ...
2009-02-21 06:43:00
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Looking harried but still dashing, like one of Saul Bellow's larger-than-life, take-on-the-world characters, Horace "Woody" Brock excuses himself to take a phone call. "That's the problem with your generation," he tells the caller (presumably not his ...
2009-02-21 11:58:00
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For a guy who's never bought a lottery ticket at a corner store, Jeff Rosenthal has sure hit it big. And lottery corporations across Canada would likely wish he would just stop playing their numbers so well. Since 2006, the Toronto math professor has ...
2009-02-21 11:51:00
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There is something compelling, in a ghoulish sort of way, about the notion that earth's climate may be headed toward a tipping point. The idea gained broad currency in 2007, when a panel of scientists, including Harvard environmental expert John ...
2009-02-21 10:54:00
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Patna, (Bihar Times): Heading a 12-member Mentor Group Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Friday visited the site of the proposed Nalanda International University (NIU), four km from Rajgir, and also spent more than three hours amid the ruins of the ...
2009-02-21 08:30:00
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FARGO, N.D. - Devin Krauter sits on the end of his bed, tapping buttons on his video game controller to shoot down alien beasts while chatting with other players through a headset, texting on his cell phone and talking to a visitor. The 17-year-old ...
2009-02-21 10:39:00
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Eileen Dulen-Jennings watched and waited. She stood in the background as a group of Housatonic Community College theater students walked in circles in the college's Performing Arts Center. The students, meanwhile, were poised and ...
2009-02-21 11:22:00
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