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After much work and anticipation, state Benchmark scores are in. According to the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE), for the first time, more than 60 percent of Arkansas students at each grade level scored at or above proficient on both the math ...
2009-07-20 11:06:00
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Believing themselves to be guided solely by science, liberal-progressives swallow whole banquets of contradictory and unprovable hypotheses. Liberal-progressivism's mantra is that only logical positivism has a place in public discussion. Logical ...
2009-07-20 06:05:00
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Research at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes. The seismic waves produced by earthquakes include body waves which travel through the earth and surface waves ...
2009-07-20 10:37:00
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The Bangladesh Chattra Union(BCU) of Rajshahi University (RU) unit formed a human chain on Saturday at the university Kazla Gate demanding stoppage of launching evening courses at the university. The members of the organization said in a press ...
2009-07-20 12:10:00
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The seismic waves produced by earthquakes include body waves which travel through the earth and surface waves which travel across it. The new technology controls the path of surface waves which are the most damaging and responsible for much of the ...
2009-07-20 12:17:00
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It was a kindler, gentler time for Charles “Chuck” Denham. Forty years ago, he delivered newspapers on his bicycle and spent his earnings at Bob Clark’s Pharmacy. When he got his driver’s license, he drove a school bus for Havelock Elementary ...
2009-07-20 11:06:00
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Maplesoft has released Maple T.A. 5.0, a new Blackboard Vista-compatible version of its math assessment tool. Maplesoft T.A. is a Web-based tool designed for online math assessments. It provides a platform for creating, administering, and grading ...
2009-07-20 10:59:00
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The push for financial regulatory reform has highlighted an important debate surrounding the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH), the idea that market prices are rationally determined and fully reflect all available information. If true, the EMH ...
2009-07-20 11:34:00
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Sam Peckinpah's controversial thriller, Straw Dogs , left audiences rattled and the media in a frenzy when it was first released in 1971. Starring Dustin Hoffman, the film told the dark saga of an American mathematics teacher and his English wife who ...
2009-07-20 09:54:00
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Enthusiasm already was high in only the second day of the Creating High Achievement in Mathematics and Problem Solving outreach program at Mississippi University for Women’s Roger F. Wicker Center for Creative Learning. In its sixth year, the two ...
2009-07-20 08:28:00
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The government says there will be 10,000 more university places in England this autumn - in science, technology, engineering and maths. The extra places will be allocated by the higher education funding council in consultation with universities. They ...
2009-07-20 04:53:00
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It is reported that President Obama’s health plan will cost $1 trillion over 10 years. Republicans seem to think that is a lot of money but, with a little simple arithmetic and the current U.S. population of about 306 million, it is only about 90 ...
2009-07-20 02:09:00
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A computational mathematician at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been awarded the U.S. government's highest honor for scientists and engineers who are near the start of their careers. Alexandre Tartakovsky, who researches the complex ways ...
2009-07-20 04:03:00
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TARUN Gogoi’s decision to appoint Dr Deepak Paintal, vice-chancellor of Delhi University, as educational adviser to revamp the universities of Guwahati and Dibrugarh is a positive step indeed that deserves unreserved support of the academic ...
2009-07-20 06:19:00
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon. When Neil Armstrong took that historic first step, it marked a high water mark for American technological know how. And it was a thrilling adventure, mixed with spell-binding drama. And it ...
2009-07-20 05:08:00
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