KUWAIT CITY,– Representatives from 20 Ministries of Education and Higher Education, national centers for training and evaluation came together recently in Kuwait to identify ways to improve assessment in education systems in the Arab world. The three-day course with participants from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region was sponsored by the World […]
GLENDALE, Calif. – Disney Publishing Worldwide, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and apps and a division of Disney Consumer Products (DCP), today unveiled Disney Imagicademy, a new technology-driven learning initiative designed for families with children 3 to 8 to encourage children to learn by creating, doing and making. Disney Imagicademy offers parents a […]
The U.S. Department of Education announced today that its Office for Civil Rights has entered into an agreement with Youngstown State University in Ohio to ensure that the school’s websites comply with federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability. The agreement ends an OCR investigation and commits the 13,000-student public institution […]
Citrus County School District in rural central Florida is among a growing number of school districts across the country giving students opportunities to take control of their own learning, collaborate with others, and explore entire digital libraries of content by providing them with iPads or laptops. These “one-to-one” initiatives allow teachers to customize students’ lessons […]
Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, The World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, closed today with a declaration calling for urgent action to mainstream ESD and include ESD in the post-2015 development agenda. The Aichi-Nagoya Declaration calls on all nations to implement the Global Action Programme on ESD (GAP) to move the ESD agenda […]
LETTERKENNY, Ireland, – Pramerica Systems Ireland, a software and contact centre subsidiary of U.S.-based Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) [NYSE:PRU], partnered once again with Mulroy College in Milford to launch a mentoring programme for the school’s fifth-year students. The undertaking is operated by The Schools’ Business Partnership Programme, an education inclusion initiative facilitated by Business in […]
DETROIT – General Motors will encourage Hispanic students to pursue engineering careers with the automaker when it welcomes the annual conference of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) to Detroit from Nov. 5-9 at Cobo Center. SHPE is the leading national organization aimed at motivating Hispanics to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and […]
The Obama Administration today announced publication of the final rule implementing changes made to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA). That law and the new rule strengthen the Clery Act to more effectively address, and ultimately […]
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $4.7 million to nine partnerships to help improve the quality of elementary and secondary education and bolster community-wide, comprehensive services for students, families and their communities. The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program supports partnerships between schools, school districts, and community-based and nonprofit organizations. Three of this year’s grantees […]
(Washington, DC) – Foreign students who attend U.S. colleges and universities on the F-1 visa bring millions of dollars each year to local economies, but regional leaders can do more to capitalize on students’ connections to fast-growing foreign markets to increase local jobs and investment. This is the key finding of a new Brookings report […]
