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Brain Development with Mental Math & Abacus -- Children have an amazing ability to learn, but their vast brain potential is not always nurtured to the fullest extent. With the proper guidance and tools, children as young as 4 or 5 are capable of mastering mathematical skills and calculating ability that will yield benefits that last a lifetime.
Ancient Asian Calculating Tool May Hold Key to Boosting Children's Mental Math Skills -- In Asia, many schools have rediscovered the secrets of the abacus, an ancient calculating device that offers remarkable benefits for nurturing young minds and encouraging proficiency in mathematics and mental calculation. With abacus instruction, children can achieve much more than just excellent math skills. Abacus use can build confidence, provide a sense of achievement, promote intuitive thinking, enhance problem-solving capability, stimulate creativity and improve concentration and mental endurance.
Credit Crisis Shakes Confidence In Student Loans -- The federal student loan program has helped tens of millions of students pay for college. But with the economy in a downward spiral, lenders have been pulling out. Funding for new loans has dried up. For the first time, public confidence in the program seems shaky.
Chinese School Offers 'Loving' Home for Kids -- Guan Ai — "loving care" in Chinese — is a boarding school in a poor, tiny village. Though it lacks frills, staff at Guan Ai has made an effort to foster warmth and creativity, and it is a refuge from the competitive environment at traditional schools.
Financial Aid Woes Boost Community College Appeal -- Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are struggling to find money for college. We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.
Graduate School Admissions Test Controversy Grows -- Six thousand business school students might have their GMAT scores canceled because they subscribed to a test prep site that posted questions currently in use on the test.
High Point University Boosts Its 'Wow' Factor -- The president of High Point University in North Carolina hired a director of "wow" to help make students happy. The campus now features ice cream trucks, valet parking, a concierge desk, a hot tub and free snacks. Classical music wafts through the grounds.
Chef Proves School Lunch Can Be Healthy, Cheap -- Chef Dominique Valadier once worked in the glamorous world of French Riviera restaurants. Now he is making his gourmet meals, with all local ingredients, for public school children.
Harlem School Aces Math Test -- Every single eighth grader at Harlem Village Academy passed this year's state math test. Can other schools learn from the academy's success?
'School Phobia' Plunges Family Into Misery -- Teenager Rebecca Maykish suffers from such severe anxiety in classrooms that she stopped attending school regularly at age 8. She and her family are locked in a battle with their Pennsylvania school district over how to pay for her education.
'Endangered Species': Black Male Librarian -- A Library of Congress researcher is on a crusade to get more African-American men into the stacks.
Teen Pregnancy: Who's to Blame? -- From Jamie Lynn Spears to pregnancy pacts and nationwide stats showing the teen birthrate rising, the director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy talks about teen pregnancy.
McCain to talk pocketbook education issues (AP) --
AP - Sen. John McCain intends to talk about how teachers are paid and tutoring for poor kids when he goes before the NAACP convention next week.
Technology reshapes America's classrooms (Reuters) --
Reuters - From online courses to
kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is
spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for
textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools
themselves.
Business-school test maker seeks Web cheaters (AP) -- AP - Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.
New federal student loan terms take effect (AP) -- AP - Changes in the federal student aid program that took effect Tuesday will lessen interest rates for some students while increasing the amount they can borrow.
6 states to design own plans for fixing schools (AP) -- AP - Six states are getting the OK to write their own prescriptions for ailing schools under the Bush administration's signature education law.
Poll: Schools not properly preparing kids (AP) --
AP - It's not much of a report card.
Border fence would cut through Texas university (AP) --
AP - The steel fence that the U.S. government wants to build along the Mexican border would do more than slice through the University of Texas' Brownsville campus and cut off the golf course from the rest of the school.
Japanese students schooled with Nintendo (Reuters) --
Reuters - Nintendo is banned everywhere but the
classroom at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan as the
ubiquitous DS consoles become the latest tool in English
instruction.
Free tuition program ends in Mass. with diplomas (AP) -- AP - A program that gained national attention in 1991 for offering to pay college tuition for 69 second-graders is closing its doors in Cambridge on Friday.
How they voted: Senate roll call on war bill (AP) -- AP - The 92-6 roll call by which the Senate on Thursday passed a bill to pay for war operations, boost college aid for troops, extend unemployment benefits and provide emergency flood relief.
Nintendo DS teaches English in school (AP) --
AP - The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods.
U.S. students improve in math and reading, report finds (The Christian Science Monitor) -- The Christian Science Monitor - America's schoolchildren are improving in reading and math ? and minorities and those at the bottom of the economic ladder are closing the so-called achievement gap, which is a major goal of US education reform.
Universities seek to limit alcohol off-campus (AP) -- AP - Many college towns have tried to limit the availability of alcohol off-campus. Here are a few examples:
States turn down US abstinence education grants (AP) -- AP - Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.
Houston school workers hope to get $250 gas money (AP) -- AP - These days, everyone's feeling the pain at the pump, but for Houston's lowest-paid school district employees — who make as little as $15,000 a year — some relief may be on the way.
Everything seemingly is spinning out of control (AP) --
AP - Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.
Oscar De La Hoya gives $3.5M to LA charter schools (AP) --
AP - Oscar De La Hoya has donated $3.5 million toward helping underprivileged students.
Northwestern U. to offer 2-year law program (AP) -- AP - Northwestern University School of Law will offer an accelerated, two-year program for law degrees starting in 2009, becoming the only law school among top-tier institutions to offer both two- and three-year programs, university officials said.
House votes to provide $162 billion in war funding (AP) --
AP - A much-delayed Iraq war funding bill sailed through the House on Thursday, along with a doubling of college aid for returning troops and help for the unemployed and Midwestern flood victims.
Police: Gunman arrested after entering NYC school (AP) -- AP - Officials say a Brooklyn elementary school was evacuated after a man with a gun was reported in the building. No students or teachers were injured, and police have arrested the man.
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