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The Verizon Foundation is helping Rhode Island public schools better prepare students to compete in the 21st century. Â Amid the increased focus on student achievement, schools across the state are invited to apply for $25,000 in grants for programs that use the Verizon Foundation's Thinkfinity.org to improve students' skills in science, technology, engineering and math.

The Verizon Foundation is helping Massachusetts public schools better prepare students to compete in the 21st century. Â Amid the increased focus on student achievement, public schools across the state are invited to apply for $150,000 in grants for programs that use the Verizon Foundation's Thinkfinity.org to improve students' skills in science, technology, engineering and math.

HOLYOKE - Cisco Systems Inc. wants to turn Holyoke into a model showing how Cisco's communications technologies can help revitalize communities and provide better and more efficient education, public safety, business growth, transportation and health care.

Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) announces the seventh annual Bayada Award for Technological Innovation in Nursing Education and Practice. The award, sponsored by brothers Mel and Mark Baiada, recognizes the importance of incorporating technology in nursing for better patient outcomes. Applications are being accepted now.

By: Danielle Nordine As science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects take a more central role in education nationally, the University of Minnesota recently added a center that is working to study educational issues surrounding STEM topics. The STEM Education Center, housed in the Vocational and Technical Education Building in St. Paul, is holding its grand opening Thursday. It ...

RICHMOND - RICHMOND, Va. ( AP) - The education package new Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell outlined Wednesday borrows heavily from Democratic President Barack Obama's bid to significantly expand charter schools.

SOUTH EUCLID -- The South Euclid-Lyndhurst School District could be the first in the country to implement new technology to keep children safe when boarding and getting off school buses. At the request of South Euclid Police Chief Kevin Nietert, the two cities and the board of education are beginning the process of studying the Cross Safe Program, manufactured and designed by Affiliated Computer ...

BUTTERWORTH : Children from poor and well-to-do families in rural areas deserve the same education opportunity as those staying in towns.

What happens in the future at the Dow Technology Park is likely going to involve some compromise.

The Austin Convention Center was packed with teacher technology Wednesday.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Education Management Corporation (Nasdaq: EDMC), one of the largest providers of post-secondary education in North America, today reported its financial results for the three months ended December 31, 2009.

RICHMOND- Governor Bob McDonnell held an afternoon press conference today to unveil "The Opportunity to Learn," his education reform legislative package for this current session of the General Assembly designed to offer options and innovation for all Virginia schoolchildren, but especially those who are at-risk or in underperforming school systems.

The Education Ministry is focusing on four main issues to drive education reform: a clear goal to produce better citizens, the improving of teaching styles and methods, updating of schools and other learning resources to suit the modern world, and a smartening up of educational administration.

The Education Ministry is focusing on four main issues to drive education reform: a clear goal to produce better citizens, the improving of teaching styles and methods, updating of schools and other learning resources to suit the modern world, and a smartening up of educational administration.

( EUREKA ) For the first time the European research initiative EUREKA will be represented with its own stand at Research & Technology, which forms part of HANNOVER MESSE 2010 (April 19-23). This presentation underlines the strategic importance of the Innovations Market for Research and Development in Hall 2.

How technology impacts education around the world

A special edition of BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme looks at three unique uses of technology in education.

Two of California’s most influential congressmen, Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, got a glimpse of the future of education Friday during a tour Napa New Technology High School and Napa High School with its Student-Centered 21st-Century classrooms (SC21). (PRWeb Feb 10, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3588344 ...

Lagos — The education sector suffered prolonged industrial dispute last year. Qualified teachers, infrastructural and instructional materials, as well as funding remained inadequate, not to talk about abysmal results in public examinations.

BUTTERWORTH, Feb 10 (Bernama) -- Children from poor and well-to-do families in rural areas deserve the same education opportunity as those staying in towns, the Prime Minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, said today.