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Textbook for one of most-taught community college courses available free
Aug 13, 2008 |
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Rice University's Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country's most-attended transfer-level ...
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Study finds that students benefit from depth, rather than breadth, in high school science courses
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A recent study reports that high school students who study fewer science topics, but study them in greater depth, have an advantage in college science classes over their peers who study more topics and spend less time on ...
Golf course: Playing fields, wildlife sanctuaries or both
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Dec 03, 2008 |
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"FORE"...Though they may not help improve a person's golf game, stream salamanders might change the way golfers think about the local country club in the near future, following a new University of Missouri study.
Study finds college students better prepared
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Freshmen entering California State University, Sacramento, are better prepared to tackle college-level work than they were in 2004, suggesting that a five-year-old statewide program to assess college readiness among high ...
College Board weighs online science labs
Oct 20, 2006 |
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The College Board is studying whether virtual science labs are acceptable for Advance Placement coursework for U.S. high school science students.
Results show math, science aren't out of reach
Aug 26, 2009 |
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The conflicting data coming out about schools can make your head swirl. Too few kids ready for college. Too few students mastering their subjects. Too many teens trailing their global peers in math and science.
17-year-old works on NASA spaceship
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 06, 2007 |
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A 17-year-old student who helped test a U.S. space agency spacecraft has been asked to address the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting next week.
Colleges expand summer sessions
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Summer session -- once a relatively small piece of the academic calendar -- is now a full-blown term for most colleges and universities, with more offerings, more students and more of an expectation that you can't graduate ...
Using Superheroes to Teach Physics: College Courses in Sci-Fi
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more perplexing questions facing science these days is this one: How do we get more young people interested in science? Leading the way are a number of college courses -- that can ...
Workplace literacy schemes are too short to improve skills
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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The five billion pound Skills for Life programme is based on the assumption that an improvement in literacy and numeracy will increase people's earning potential, as well as their productivity and employability. However, ...
Antibiotic use in infants linked to asthma
Jun 11, 2007 |
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New research indicates that children who receive antibiotics before their first birthday are significantly more likely to develop asthma by age 7. The study, published in the June issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal ...
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