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Since 2007, WGU has awarded more than 200 scholarships for rural mathematics and science educators SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Western Governors University (WGU) www.wgu.edu , the online, nonprofit university with the only ...
2009-02-01 05:58:00
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Less than a month after George W. Bush left the White House, local and state-level educators are viewing the former president's legacy in education with a positive tilt. Days before his presidency ended, White House press secretaries sought to ...
2009-02-08 10:12:00
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‘History is a nightmare from which I struggle to awake’, concluded Leonard Bloom in James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses even though I doubt Mr. Bloom ever invested in subprime CDO excreta. History does not repeat but it surely rhymes, claimed ...
2009-02-08 02:08:00
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In my column last Thursday, I explained how academic economics has been discredited by recent events. It is now time for what historians of science call a “paradigm shift”. If we want to flatter economists, we could compare this revolution needed ...
2009-02-08 05:07:00
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Risk management “quants”, or quantitative analysts, were considered until last year as a lesser-known species of the banking underworld. Armed with PhDs in theoretical physics and mathematics, they would typically keep themselves to themselves ...
2009-02-08 05:00:00
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At the start of the century Anna Bligh was the Queensland Minister for Education. There were slightly encouraging signs that she recognised that the educational standards in the States’ schools were unsatisfactory. However the emphasis was on the ...
2009-02-08 04:17:00
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Troy writes "I'm a high school math teacher who is trying to assemble an extra-credit reading list. I want to give my students (ages 16-18) the opportunity/motivation to learn about stimulating mathematical ideas that fall outside of the curriculum I'm bound to teach. I already do this somewhat with special lessons given throughout the year, but I would like my students to explore a particular ...
2009-02-08 04:55:00
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Tens of thousands of Chinese have joined a debate on whether students should be separated into science and liberal arts classes in high school, a practice that allows them to stay competitive in college entrance exam by choosing preferred subjects ...
2009-02-08 12:32:00
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FROM where the Government sits, the trouble with independents, of course, is that they're independent. Which means they read more widely than, say, The Monthly magazine and prominent treatises consigning the past 30 years of global economic expansion ...
2009-02-08 10:40:00
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MARIO LIVIO IS an astrophysicist, a man whose work and worldview are inextricably intertwined with mathematics. Like most scientists, he depends on math and an underlying faith in its incredible power to explain the universe. But over the years, he ...
2009-02-08 08:39:00
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America's Cup holder Ernesto Bertarelli is unrepentant about upsetting legions of yachting fans by pulling Alinghi out of a mouthwatering clash with Dean Barker's Team New Zealand. Barker slammed Alinghi's no-show, accusing the billionaire's crew of ...
2009-02-08 09:14:00
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America's Cup holder Ernesto Bertarelli is unrepentant about upsetting legions of yachting fans by pulling Alinghi out of a mouthwatering clash with Dean Barker's Team New Zealand. …
2009-02-08 09:10:18
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Lore May Rasmussen, 88, formerly of Miquon, a civil-rights champion and an educator who developed an innovative method for teaching math, died of heart failure Jan. 23 at her home in Berkeley, Calif. In 1956, Mrs. Rasmussen joined the Miquon School ...
2009-02-08 01:51:00
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Shelemyahu Zacks has become the latest Binghamton University faculty member to be internationally honored for his work. Zacks, a professor in the math department, is a co-winner of the 2008 Abraham Wald Prize, an international competition. Together ...
2009-02-02 05:57:00
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Hosted by the Shreveport chapter of the Louisiana Engineering Society, MATHCOUNTS is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement. This year marked the 26th anniversary of the ...
2009-02-08 01:51:00
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