Topic: Education
It's all about the public interest.Barbara and Hank Greenspun, my parents, started the Las Vegas Sun just over 61 years ago because my father believed that Las Vegas was a community worth fighting for, and the best way he could do that ...
CUCUNATI, Panama (Reuters) - Carlos Bacorizo begins a half-hour jungle trek to school every day not knowing if he'll make it to class. An oft-swollen river blocks his path.Even if he crosses the 165-foot-wide (50-meter-wide) river -- sometimes with books, shoes and ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - As global companies expand in Asia, financial hubs such as Hong Kong are suffering a shortage of international school places that may blunt the city's competitive edge against regional rivals including Singapore.International schools across Hong Kong are reporting ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harvard regained its top spot on a list of most talked-about U.S. universities on the Internet, beating its rivals just in time for a return to fall studies, according to a survey released on Tuesday.Harvard conquered stiff competition ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Start-up companies using "freemium" business models, including Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Animoto and Eventbrite, are thriving as the cost of computing power and storage falls.These are among a slew of venture-capital backed businesses that offer some products and services free, ...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Atlanta public school officials appeared on Friday before a county grand jury investigating alleged cheating by teachers and principals on standardized tests and turned over 95 volumes of subpoenaed documents, officials said.The documents were on DVDs, CDs and cassettes, ...
The Internet is letting a school sprout in the Amazon where teachers tend not to linger due to harsh living conditions and a scarcity of students.Teachers in Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, conduct lessons streamed to students in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newark, New Jersey has sworn in its top-ranking police officials, including the first woman to serve as police chief in the state's largest force.Taking the top post of Police Director is Samuel DeMaio, succeeding Garry McCarthy who left ...
LOUISVILLE (Reuters) - Severe thunderstorms across southwest Indiana and into Kentucky left about 74,000 Louisville customers without power on Sunday, officials said.The windy rains rolled through late on Saturday, and nearly 130,000 customers were in the dark at the peak of the ...
Federal law sets an unrealistic measure of success for the nation's schoolsSince its passage more than a decade ago, the federal No Child Left Behind Act has frustrated educators across the nation. In its attempt to raise educational achievement, it made success ...
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