AT&T Donates For Dropouts
The number of American high school students who drop out without graduating is increasing. To solve this problem and to improve the skills of the nation's work force, AT&T plans to present a $100 million gift to the program that fights against dropouts. Yahoo! Finance reports that according to AT&T, the unemployment rate among Americans with ...
Publishers Sued Georgia State University
Once intended to allow for easy accessibility, online education creates copyright problems between U.S universities and academic publishers. Three prominent academic publishers -- Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Sage Publications -- have sued Georgia State University, accusing it of using their copyrighted academic materials in digital format. The lawsuit is the first of its ...
Student Arrested In Pasadena
A student from the Blair International Baccalaureate School has been arrested on a suspicion of bringing a gun to campus. The arrest followed a school evacuation that occurred after police were informed. The Los Angeles Times reports that police and administrators have ordered a lockdown of the campus, but no weapon has been found in the ...
Virginia Tech Brings Changes
Last year's massacre at Virginia Tech has changed mental health care policies in some of US colleges and universities. From now on, university administrators and counselors are pushing students to get professional help whenever they notice a student with fatigue or an aggressive look. The Los Angeles Times reports that people who work on US university ...
Angelina Jolie Highlights Iraqi Students' Plight
The ongoing war in Iraq obviously doesn't allow the country's school children and students to receive a proper education. This was one of the main issues raised by refugee advocate Angelina Jolie at a panel discussion sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations on 8 April. Education Week reports that Jolie was speaking against the war ...
Yale Student Accused Of Lying On His Application
Akash Maharaj, a former Yale undergraduate student, has been accused of lying on his admission application. Maharaj's application turned out to be false. Instead, Maharaj submitted documents of an outstanding scholar from Columbia University when he was transfered to Yale with a full scholarship of $32.000. In addition to the scholarship, Maharaj also received $15,000 in ...
Zimbabwe's Education System Disintegrates
Once the best education system on the African continent, Zimbabwe's school system is now on the edge of disintegration. Outside the capital, at Mufakose 3, teachers leave their jobs to take better paid jobs. In the first two months of this year, 8000 other teachers have also done the same in addition to the 25,000 who ...
Hartford Students Face More Diversity
Hartford schools and 22 suburbs will cater for more diverse students from their neighborhoods. The possible settlement of the new students is managed by a five-year-plan which aims to bring back at least 41 percent of Hartford's minority students to its schools. The proposal for this plan was submitted to the Joint Education Committee headed by ...
