“The latest edition [of Collins Official Scrabble Words] adds nearly 3,000 new words to the existing quarter of a million available to Scrabble players” said Robert Groves, the editor of the reference for the popular Scrabble board game. MySpace, Wiki, gobi, alu, aloo, and keema are among the new words added to the scrabble dictionary. [...]
A 6-year-old boy in the US harmed himself and two other kids at his kindergarten school after a gun he brought with him accidentally went off, various reports say. The unnamed boy reportedly brought to Betsy Ross Elementary School a Kel-Tec 9 millimeter gun which went off after he tried to cock it, local reports [...]
US students are rating colleges higher while losing confidence in high schools in the country, a latest survey from The Associated Press and Viacom reveals. The survey was had 1,104 respondents, all aged 18-24 and was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications on Feb. 18 to March 6 this year. The survey [...]
Layoff notices will be sent to all unionized Detroit public school teachers, a notice on the districts public schools’ website says. The announcement comes from Robert Bobb, a governor-appointed emergency head of the district tasked to reduce the system’s budget deficit. According to the notice posted at the said site on Thursday, every one of [...]
In a new planned partnership between Washington state and Microsoft, the technology powerhouse will be supplying software and training to every high school within the state. The news comes from an announcement made on Monday by Washington’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn. According to Dorn’s statement, he is close to an agreement with [...]
Virginia Tech University will be fined $55,000 for lapses in the handling of the 2007 shooting at the campus which claimed 33 lives. According to an investigation of the U.S. Department of Education, the institution took too long to notify students that there was a gunman roaming around campus and shooting at fellow classmates. Last [...]
According to a paper entitled “What the U.S. Can Learn from the World’s Most Successful Education Reform Efforts,” better teachers will improve the performance of students, which has long been rated average, despite the US’ being a wealthy nation. The study which analyzed data from achievement tests of achievement tests of students aged 15 years [...]
A recent study released by the US government reveals that students from urban areas in the country fair poorer in science than their counterparts from other areas. According to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress Science report, students from urban areas, mostly from low-income households from those areas, had lower scores than their peers [...]
Stanford University has been invited by New York to build an engineering campus in the city, Mercury News reports. According to the publication, Stanford President John Hennessy revealed the invitation at the US Senate’s Academic meeting on Thursday. If the plan would be given a go, it would create a Stanford campus in New York [...]
The federal student loan repayment default rate jumped from 11.8 percent to 13.8 percent starting fiscal year 2008 from one year prior, the Education Department said. The figures show the number of defaults within three years. The increase in the number of defaults of federal student loan repayment indicates that U.S. graduates are finding it [...]
State-wide broadband Internet mapping unveiled by Vermont officials
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