Over the past century, American schools have integrated an ever-more-diverse group of students. Racial integration is most prominent, but it’s not just Native Americans, blacks and Latinos who have been brought into public education.
Category: Adolescents and Pre-Teens
Perfect fifth: Amboy students given freedom to choose, tackle projects
Abby Jones works on her 20 Percent project Monday in Stacey Dinges’ sixth-grade class at Amboy Junior High School. More and more schools are trying out the 20 Percent concept, a model that’s worked well for big companies such as 3M and Hewlett-Packard, by letting employees – students, in schools’ cases – spend one-fifth of their time working on projects of their choice.
BHOS presidential scholar easily chooses university
News selected on topics and regions – oil and gas, business, politics, IT, the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia Ranking of the Azerbaijani banking sector The project initiated by Public Relations department of Baku Higher Oil School and entitled “10 questions to Presidential Scholar at BHOS”, Process Automation Engineering student Ramil Huseynov is answering our questions. – I was born in Raduzny city of the Russian Federation in 2000.
Law Firm Donation Enhances Students’ Access to Education
Verrill Dana is pleased to donate more than 15 of its computers after a recent upgrade to Spark Academy, co-founded by Verrill Dana attorney Tom Bean, and to The Girls Foundation of Tanzania, co-founded by Beth Currier, now Secretary of the Foundation and wife of Verrill Dana attorney Doug Currier. “Computers play a vital role in education, however, we find that many schools lack the funding and resources needed to ensure they have enough adequate technology,” said K.C. Jones, Managing Partner at Verrill Dana.
Feature: New technology at CES 2017 gives glimpse of future life
In the 50th year of the International Consumer Electronics Show , new generation TV, autonomous driving, drones, robots, 3-D printing and virtual reality technology gave a glimpse of future life. This year’s CES held in Las Vegas between Thursday and Sunday attracted over 3,800 companies and 50,000 professionals from 150 countries and regions in the world.
Hour Of Code aspires to create digital India
Code.org an NGO from the US with support from Facebook, Microsoft, Infosys and many others has come up with one of the largest learning events in history ‘The Hour of Code’. Vidyanidhi Info Tech Academy at Vile Parle, Mumbai hosted the ‘Hour Of Code’ event during the computer science education week in December for students of their school, and also for Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Gandhigram school, in their neighbourhood.