10/03/2010 at 23:00:00 - AUSTRALIA needs to make boosting maths a national priority and follow Britain in setting national targets.

09/03/2010 at 23:00:00 - THE state of maths and science at Australian schools and universities has deteriorated to a "dangerous level", the nation's top mathematicians have warned.

09/03/2010 at 23:00:00 - THE Group of Eight has declared mathematics education in Australia is in crisis.

09/03/2010 at 23:00:00 - NEW attempts at producing national rankings of Australian universities will be inevitable once the federal government's proposed My University website is up and running by the beginning of 2012.

09/03/2010 at 23:00:00 - THE 2002 Bali bombings, in which 88 Australians died, have triggered an expanding but low-profile counter-terrorist research program in Australian universities.

09/03/2010 at 23:00:00 - LURID media reports about vocational colleges, agents and students are beat-ups.

07/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Julia Gillard will put the vocational education and training sector front and centre of the next stage of the education revolution if the key...

07/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - When a quality audit begins with the phrase so and so is 'at a challenging phase of development', it's code for 'help!' The Australian Institute of...

07/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - The federal government is considering emulating a German website that allows potential university students to compare universities based on subject,...

07/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - VET will have to improve its performance markedly to meet the COAG targets, the latest data from the Productivity Commission suggests. In late 2008,...

07/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - People who have disabilities do much worse in the labour market than people who don't. That's one of the unsurprising conclusions of a recent study...

13/03/2010 at 11:10:14 - (NC)-March. For students, it's synonymous with the word "break." It means a chance to break the rules and to stay up late. While you want your children to have fun with their time off, you don't want ...

13/03/2010 at 11:10:14 - (NC)-A well balanced breakfast sets you up for the day ahead. This delicious recipe comes from Rose Reisman, a health and wellness consultant and national spokesperson for Breakfast for Learning. Sub ...

13/03/2010 at 11:10:14 - (NC)-A healthy breakfast provides many benefits. For kids, it helps them to concentrate better, improve their problem solving skills, be more alert, and have more energy. For adults, it helps ensure y ...

13/03/2010 at 11:10:14 - (NC)-15 years ago, Sam Fulton was at a turning point. At 50, his eyesight was deteriorating from Retinitis Pigmentosa, and he wondered if he'd be able to continue working as an urban planner. One of t ...

13/03/2010 at 11:10:14 - (NC)-Many athletes and musicians are turning to chiropractors for spinal adjustments. Professional and competitive athletes such as Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Emmitt Smith and Barry Bonds attribut ...

13/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Australia and New Zealand see marked growth in research collaborations with China, reports Zoë Corbyn

12/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Adam Afriyie indicates that Tories would reduce the 2010-11 budget if they come to power. Zoë Corbyn reports

11/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - University noncommittal on 'fractional scheme' to stave off redundancies. John Morgan writes

11/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Paul Curran hails appointment as 'unique privilege'. Rebecca Attwood reports

11/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Academics and students have united to protest against the "privatisation" of California's public higher education system, with the backing of a university chancellor.

11/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Laurie Taylor began his academic career as a devotee of B.F. Skinner, but he escaped the behavioural maze thanks to Noam Chomsky and a tipsy rat

13/03/2010 at 06:20:16 - Charter backers seek to open high school in Detroit Coalition wants to create many charter campuses in city

13/03/2010 at 06:20:16 - Mount Prospect (Ill.) district reviews actions taken with drunken bus driver Driver was allowed to continue driving after administrators were warned about her drinking

13/03/2010 at 06:20:16 - Des Moines district gets authority to open charter school District still needs to find money to open the new campus

13/03/2010 at 05:20:13 - Mass closings of Kansas City schools reflect district's dysfunction As enrollment declined, officials put off tough choices

12/03/2010 at 08:20:18 - California colleges expect 387,000 more undergraduates by 2019 Report says enrollment in public higher-education institutions will continue to grow

12/03/2010 at 20:40:00 - I've been reporting on education for a long time. I've been to countless education conferences, reviewed thousands of press releases, and talked to hundreds of educators about how they are changing th ...

12/03/2010 at 17:00:00 -   Archipelago Learning has announced the introduction of Study Island SAT, an affordable web-based SAT review program.

12/03/2010 at 16:00:00 - Toby the wizard wants to fly. Learn how three items can help him accomplish this goal. Real world information and video can be found on this site helping to further explain the properties of flight.co ...

12/03/2010 at 06:55:00 -  FileMaker, Inc. has announced FileMaker Pro 11

12/03/2010 at 06:30:00 -  M86 Security has introduced a single appliance which provides filtering, monitoring and reporting capabilities to protect students from inappropriate Web and Instant Messenger use.

12/03/2010 at 14:20:13 - This commentary critically appraises Camilli, Vargas, Ryan and Barnett's (2010) meta-analysis of the cognitive effects of early education interventions. It also presents a related synthesis of recent ...

10/03/2010 at 10:20:14 - The editors of TCR announce a call for proposals for future volumes of the NSSE Yearbooks.

08/03/2010 at 14:20:03 - Since an initial explosion in the 1980s, service learning has become increasingly popular on college campuses around the country (Stoecker & Tryon, 2009, p. 3). Many faculty and university adminis ...

08/03/2010 at 14:20:03 - This inquiry raises questions about the manner in which the No Child Left Behind Act aims to improve mathematics education through continued reliance on standardized testing and mandated use of scient ...

08/03/2010 at 14:20:03 - “Dialogue presupposes that we talk with each other, not at each other” (Brock, 2010, p.129). In (Mis)Understanding Families, editors Monica Miller Marsh and Tammy Turner-Vorbeck successfu ...

12/03/2010 at 10:01:00 - Members of the British National party (BNP) and other racist organisations can continue teaching in taxpayer-funded schools, an independent review has concluded, prompting condemnation from teachers' ...

09/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Former science ministers David Sainsbury and William Waldegrave have united to warn Britain risks relegation from the 'economic premier league' if investment in scientific research falters.

04/03/2010 at 10:01:00 - The number of schools with over 1,500 pupils has more than doubled under New Labour, it has emerged.

01/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Schools would no longer need to consult a local authority before becoming an academy if the Tories win power, Michael Gove will announce today.

01/03/2010 at 10:00:00 - Nick Clegg has placed inequality firmly at the centre of the Liberal Democrat's education policy and attacked the Tories for not costing their plans for schools.

12/03/2010 at 05:43:00 - Texas grants are being used to help universities get more high school students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

12/03/2010 at 02:34:00 - Global IT expenditure is expected to increase slightly this year for the first time since 2008, with one-third of CIOs planning to increase their budgets, according to a report released this week.

12/03/2010 at 02:16:00 - The National Education Association's NEA Academy has announced it has partnered with I CAN Learn to help both K-12 and college mathematics educators improve content knowledge and learn new classroom s ...

11/03/2010 at 10:25:00 - In a presentation to stakeholders Wednesday, FCC Director of Education Steve Midgley provided a preview of the forthcoming National Broadband Plan, which will be formally released next week. The plan, ...

11/03/2010 at 02:15:00 - Boxlight has rolled out a new short-throw version of its ProjectWrite2 interactive whiteboard projection system, ProjectWrite2/W.

04/03/2010 at 10:25:29 - Keeping the Message Clear President Obama's appointment of Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana as assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the Department of Education represents an eno ...

27/02/2010 at 12:37:28 -   The American Councils for Education, in association with the U.S. Department of State, is seeking to place five young professionals in non-governmental internships across the country during the fall ...

24/02/2010 at 10:47:50 - A Dream Deferred. See April 2009 Editorial for more on the DREAM Act Each year, thousands of promising students go to school eager to achieve their dreams of success, only to realize at some point alo ...

04/02/2010 at 07:29:52 - Invest in Teachers Teacher quality is key to the success of our schools and our children. No matter how you judge success, there can be no doubt that students do better in testing, are more motivated ...

30/01/2010 at 11:24:55 - Children under 18 years old make up almost half of Haiti's population of 9 million. As many as 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million children have been destroyed or damaged in the Port-au-Prince area ...

13/03/2010 at 03:20:14 - The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close 29 of the district's 61 schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy.

13/03/2010 at 03:20:14 - The unanimously-backed bill would prohibit bullying at schools, and would clamp down on cyberbullying by prohibiting e-mails, text messages, and Internet postings that create a hostile school environm ...

13/03/2010 at 03:20:14 - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting another challenge from parent Michael Newdow.

13/03/2010 at 03:20:14 - The top-ranked senior at a suburban Indianapolis high school is asking a federal judge to stop a graduation prayer that the class voted to approve, claiming the prayer subjects religious practice to m ...

12/03/2010 at 03:20:10 - The measure would establish a performance-pay fund for teachers that would be bankrolled through wind and solar energy leases on land owned by the state Board of Educational Lands.