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July 10, 2008
Siemens PLM Software Recognized as Best Diversity Company
ISELIN, New Jersey June 26, 2008 - Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced the company has been selected as a "Best Diversity Company for 2008" by Diversity / Careers in Engineering & Information Technology (Diversity/Careers) magazine.
July 08, 2008
Group Forms 45% Of Freshmen at Thomas Jefferson
On the high school level, more public magnet schools are adopting objective merit-based systems as race-based policies are being overturned in courts.
July 03, 2008
Banneker Institute Steers African-American Youngsters Toward STEM Education and Careers
By Chris Mcmanes--IEEE--When Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), majority whip of the House of Representatives, was a schoolteacher in east Charleston, S.C., he witnessed firsthand the hardships many black youngsters encountered in school. As the keynote speaker at a recent event for those interested in increasing the number of African Americans working in high-tech careers, he shared some of those stories.
July 02, 2008
Global vs. U.S. Education
-Charlotte Observer-Contributing editor Karen McMahan-Jul. 01, 2008--By grade 12, only 3 percent of African American students are proficient in math, 4 percent of Hispanics, 10 percent of Native Americans, 20 percent of white Americans, and 34 percent of Asian Americans. Yet 70 percent of American parents “think their child's high school is teaching the right amount of math and science.
July 01, 2008
Teachers College to Partner with 10 Public Schools in Harlem
Teachers College, Columbia University--6/30/2008--Teachers College has received a $5 million grant from the GE Foundation to create an intensive new partnership with a group of 10 public schools in Harlem.
June 30, 2008
Virtual Patients also Experience Racial Bias
University of Florida News--Thursday, June 26, 2008---GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For black people, it doesn’t matter whether their color shows up in pigments or pixels. Doctors may be less likely to heed their complaints either way.
June 27, 2008
Allstate Appoints Desiree Rogers to Create Social Networking
NORTHBROOK, Ill. - (Business Wire) Allstate Insurance Company today announced it has appointed Chicago area business and civic leader Desirée Rogers to the newly created position of president of Social Networking for Allstate Financial, a business unit of The Allstate Corporation.
June 27, 2008
Study Shows Reforms are Working
Montgomery Advertiser---A new national study of student achievement dramatically underscores what most observers of education in Alabama already knew: The state's academic reforms in early grades are working, but need to continue to be expanded to more schools and to higher grades.
June 24, 2008
Students Receive Prestigious UNCF/Merck Science Initiative Award
(CSRwire) FAIRFAX, VA,. - June 24, 2008 - UNCF–the United Negro College Fund–the nation’s oldest and most successful minority higher education assistance organization, and the global research-based pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc., announced yesterday awards of scholarships and fellowships to 38 African-American student recipients of the UNCF/Merck Science Initiative award, during the 2008 UNCF/Merck Fellows Day.
June 24, 2008
University of California trying to 'Grow' More Doctors for Valley
By Doug Hoagland--The Fresno Bee--6/22/08--- The Valley needs more Asian, black and Hispanic doctors -- and the University of California is trying to "grow" them in three Fresno County high schools. UC runs a Doctors Academy at Sunnyside, Selma and Caruthers high schools -- which have diverse student bodies -- to give academic help, counseling and mentoring opportunities to students interested in medicine.
June 24, 2008
Camp Aims to Inspire
By JANESE HEAVIN--Tribune’s staff ---Published Sunday, June 22, 2008 ---About 35 minority students heading to high school this fall are better prepared to take advanced courses, thanks to a two-week academic boot camp.
June 23, 2008
45 Stem Cell Grants to Hopkins Researchers
Johns Hopkins researchers have received 45 of the 62 grants awarded by the Maryland Technology Development Corp.
June 20, 2008
Staying Competitive
By Heather Chickoore -- RedOrbit.com--"The vast majority of Americans, especially business and scientific leaders, still see the United States as the world's technological leader," says Bruce E. Bursten, president of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. "But many see a great potential for our leadership to diminish or disappear altogether if our country is no longer turning out enough of the best and brightest scientists and engineers," he says.
June 20, 2008
Seeking New Insights into Achievement Gap
--By Hilary Parker - Princeton Weekly Bulletin--Angel Harris wants to change the way people think about the academic achievement gap across racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
June 13, 2008
Florida Math and Science Scores Up
By BILL KACZOR-- Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Standardized reading, math and science test scores are up again nearly across the board this year, state education officials said Tuesday, but they are worried the upward trend is leveling off for reading in the early grades.
June 12, 2008
Banneker Institute Launches the Network of Networks
June 10, 2008
Essential Qualities of Math Teaching Remain Unknown
By Sean Cavanagh0---Education Week---Research does not show conclusively which professional credentials demonstrate whether math teachers are effective in the classroom, the report found. It does not show what college math content and coursework are most essential for teachers.
June 09, 2008
Feds Fund Three Types of MSIs
by Charles Dervarics---Diverse Magazine---Colleges that do not qualify as historically Black colleges or tribal colleges but who still serve a significant number of African-Americans or American Indians have until late June to make their case for $20 million in new federal funds for such institutions.
June 06, 2008
Sliding Toward Mediocrity
California Republic--by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 6/5/08--- Science proficiency levels are no less discouraging. The National Assessment of Education Programs recently reported that nearly half of our 12 graders are below the basic level of science proficiency, with a pathetically low 2% considered advanced. And less than a quarter of our high school seniors are considered capable of organized, coherent writing using correct grammar and spelling.
June 05, 2008
Labs at Elementary Level Help Bring Science Alive
By Sean Cavanagh---Education Week--How do you judge the power of a simple science experiment? Step inside a 4th grade classroom—and behold the near-total silence.