Ford Motor Co. will restore college tuition help for factory workers as it tries to settle a dispute over benefits with the United Auto Workers union, the Associated…
This program provides funding for graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to bring their leading research practice and findings into K-12 learning settings.
InnoCentive, Inc. and The Economist recently announced the 21st Century Cyber-schools Challenge, which asks respondents to submit solutions that address the problem of providing educational opportunities to the…
The purpose of the Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural (URR) Program is to preserve the Underground Railroad's legacy and to demonstrate how the Underground Railroad's widespread operations network…
Promise Neighborhoods, established under the legislative authority of the Fund for the Improvement of Education Program (FIE), is intended to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of…
Facebook on Thursday debuted its "Congress on Facebook" hub to showcase members' online profiles and communicate news about the social network and the lawmakers who use it, The…
The United States is losing enough data in cyber attacks to fill the Library of Congress many times over, and authorities have failed to stay ahead of the…
One measurement that selective colleges use to compare themselves is their respective admissions yields: the percentage of applicants offered acceptance who ultimately decide to enroll, The New York…
The success of Apple Inc.'s iPad has prompted other tech companies to plunge into the market for tablet computers, with start-ups and major PC makers racing to introduce…
The Education Department is being urged to revise its draft version of the National Education Technology Plan to include measures on adult education and on accessibility for people…
Scotland and the Netherlands both invest significantly more federal money per student in information and communications technologies (ICT) than the United States, and they both view ICT as…
A new low-cost netbook whose screen can be rotated so students can read electronic texts as if they were holding a traditional book is among the new technologies…
Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a new edition of its Office programs to enterprise customers on May 12, and for the first time it's adding versions of Word…
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure,…
Even as audio versions of best sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are…
A new online learning web site called Udemy, which has been in testing for several months and has amassed more than 1,000 active users spread over some 400…
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