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Students: not dumber but dedicated - Monday, August 03, 2009
Tools for university students are much improved and competition is much tougher – of course they do better
According to former head teacher Phil Willis MP, we are dumbing down our...
UGA students still party, but a little less so - Monday, July 28, 2008
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For years, the higher-ups at the University of Georgia have tried to suppress the school's image as a booze fueled party school -- but from the looks of things,...
New York Students Improve in Reading and Math - Monday, June 23, 2008
Reading and math scores for New York students in grades three through eight improved significantly across the state this year, with particularly sizeable gains in the large urban areas,...
Revamped Spruce High focused on student achievement - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The hallways at Spruce High School didn't sound typical for a first day of classes Monday. They were quiet. Principal Lucy Davila Hakemack's heels click-clacked smartly as she walked...
Black students in South performing better on tests - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
ATLANTA - A new government study shows black students in many Southern states are improving test scores in math and reading, but not enough to narrow an achievement gap with their white...
House offers hope for student-parents - Sunday, July 20, 2008
More than 125 National City Bank volunteers worked yesterday to prepare the Family Scholar House, a 56-apartment facility that will house single parents attending college and their children.
The...
Medical students fail drug street smarts - Tuesday, October 07, 2008
A team of British and Australian researchers have found that medical students have little in the way of street smarts when it comes to recreational drugs.
In a paper published in the...
Melbourne University gets New supercomputer - Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A $100-million dollar supercomputer will be built at the University of Melbourne for biomedical research.
The Victorian Premier, John Brumby, announced the project in San Diego overnight.
The...
Students protest as CSU raises fees by 20 percent - Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Long Beach - It just got about $1,000 more expensive to attend California State University for one year - and students are furious.
With a tentative state budget agreement that gouges...
Iran students say ready to fight Israel - Thursday, January 01, 2009
TEHRAN - Hundreds of Islamist students marched in the streets of the Iranian capital on Thursday vowing their readiness to travel to Gaza to fight Israel over its onslaught against the...
