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February 8, 2012

Obama proposes money for math, science education

Chicago Tribune

President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed $80 million in new government funding for a program to boost science and math education in U.S. schools.
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February 8, 2012

Obama announces $80 million education plan at White House Science Fair

The Hill

President Obama took Tuesday's White House Science Fair as an opportunity to announce his multimillion-dollar plan to improve the nation's science and math education programs, a move he said that...
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February 7, 2012

Obama Announces Education Initiatives at White House Science Fair

The New York Times

President Obama for a second time converted the White House public rooms into a science fair on Tuesday, and announced new federal and private-sector initiatives to encourage “a nation of tinkerers...
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February 7, 2012

New Obama plan to help math, science teacher prep

The Sacramento Bee

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to the nation's long-term...
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February 7, 2012

Obama Renews $80 Million Bid for Science, Math Teachers

Bloomberg

President Barack Obama said he’ll request $80 million in education funding for training math and science teachers to help the U.S. stay competitive in world commerce, reviving a budget request last...
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February 7, 2012

Obama proposes money for math, science education

Reuters

Obama, who is running for re-election in November at a time when the economy is voters' top concern, has sought to emphasize math and science education as one of the keys to a robust economic...
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February 7, 2012

Obama to announce $100 million plan to train new educators

Washington Post

President Obama will use the backdrop of a White House science fair Tuesday to highlight a nationwide shortage of math and science teachers and unveil a plan to invest $100 million to help train...
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February 2, 2012

Rise aims to shine more brightly on African sector

Times Higher Education (UK)

The Regional Initiative in Science and Education (Rise) seeks to address the chronic lack of qualified lecturers in sub-Saharan universities. Staff running the project said that almost all the...
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February 1, 2012

Digital archive project gets major funding

Sage Nonprofit Solutions

The Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation recently gave $1 million to the Carnegie Hall of New York in conjunction with a $1 million challenge grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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January 31, 2012

Big cheer for small schools

The New York Post

Small public-high schools in the city that are open to kids at all academic levels have strikingly increased students’ prospects of graduating, a new report has found.
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January 31, 2012

Get Schooled New study out of New York: Smaller high schools graduate more and better prepared students

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

School and class size are one of those areas in education where the research and common sense can diverge. Parents and teachers feel at an organic level that fewer students in a class or a school...
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January 31, 2012

Small Schools Spur Academic Growth, Says MDRC Report

Ed Week

A new report by the New York-based education & social research organization MDRC indicates that students in 105 of New York City's 123 so-called "small schools of choice" grew more academically and...
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January 31, 2012

City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says

The New York Times

New York City teenagers attending small public high schools with about 100 students per grade were more likely to graduate than their counterparts at larger schools, according to new findings from a...
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January 27, 2012

Arab Spring Draws Academic Attention

Campus Watch

When uprisings began steamrolling through Arab countries about one year ago, revolutionaries saw the opportunity to transform the region's politics and society.
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January 20, 2012

AT&T Contributes $500,000 for UTeach Program to Train Math and Science Teachers

Business Wire (Canda)

The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) announced Thursday that AT&T has contributed $500,000 to support the highly regarded UTeach program to train math and science teachers on five...
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January 13, 2012

New Study Ranks Countries on Security of Materials That Fuel Nuclear Arms

The New York Times

The 32 nations with materials that can fuel atom bombs are typically mum on security, which looks to the public like a closed world of barbed wire and armed guards. Behind the scenes, atomic insiders...
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January 13, 2012

Elliott School researchers awarded $2-million Carnegie grant

The GW Hatchet

The Elliott School of International Affairs’ research on the Middle East, Eurasia and aspiring world powers received a $2-million boost Wednesday from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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January 13, 2012

Philanthropist Group Gives Holiday Gift To Qns. Library

Times Newsweekly

Christmas was especially merry for the Queens Borough Public Library (QBPL) as it received a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York designed to soften the impact of previous...
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January 10, 2012

Uganda: Girls Still Missing Out in the North

The Observer (Uganda)

Dr Jane Ayikoru wakes up every morning to treat patients at St Francis hospital, better known as Nsambya hospital. However, only a few of the patients she sees ever pay attention to what she went...
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December 9, 2011

34 STEM Education Programs Awarded

U.S. News & World Report

Thirty-four innovative STEM programs nationwide will get some help from big corporate backers as part of the Ashoka Changemakers Partnering for Excellence competition. Organizations and companies...
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