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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
April 12, 2018
“The university has received a letter expressing concerns about the Confucius Institute from U.S. Representatives McCaul and Cuellar. We are currently ... The FBI has been investigating the 100 Confucius Institutes at American colleges around the country, along with other K-12 Confucius Classrooms.
Inside Higher Ed
April 12, 2018
DeVos will join William J. Bennett, Reagan's education secretary, for a discussion on "policy priorities past and present that shape the American ... said in a news release that topics to be discussed at the event include the "future of higher education, the role of states in pursuing educational excellence,Ãâà...
kplr11.com
April 12, 2018
The Hamilton Education Program is one of the several history education programs at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Its president, James G. Basker, who devised the education program in New York in tandem with Hamilton creator Lin Manuel Miranda producer Jeffery Seller, TheÃâà...
Times Higher Education (THE)
April 12, 2018
He said that in the US Confucius Institutes are caught up as “part of a larger growing trade war with China” and, as a result, there is likely to be a rise in the number of universities that “fail to renew Confucius Institute contracts”. The centres will also likely shift towards Confucius Classrooms in primary andÃâà...
BTW
April 12, 2018
Ask Edelweiss (*pre-registration is required): Just like Dear Abby, Edelweiss is here to answer all of your difficult and pressing questions on best practices for its platform. Complete the pre-registration form and be sure to include your preferred day (Wednesday, June 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
April 11, 2018
"There are nearly 30 million good jobs unfulfilled in the U.S. – jobs that require some level of education beyond high school with STEM skills," said ... Strada Education Network, American Institutes for Research, Broadcom Foundation, Dow Chemical Company, ExxonMobil, Qualcomm, ZipRecruiter, 3M andÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 11, 2018
The current atmosphere of friction and mistrust between the US and China is just one of many downturns in the bilateral relationship since trade ... The China Institute was founded in 1926 with some of the indemnity scholarship funds and in turn financed the American education of some of the more thanÃâà...
The Daily Telegram
March 25, 2018
According to the US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Educational Statics, 29 percent of fourth graders are below Michigan's reading standard. Laurel Walkup, mother of Aubrey, a third grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Coldwater, said her daughterÃâà...
The Guardian
March 25, 2018
In a Brookings e-newsletter in February 2016, Ben Wildavesky, director of higher education studies at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in New York, wrote an article entitled The ... Many of us still hope it's not too late to change direction and save one of the world's greatest educational innovations.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 25, 2018
In Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education(Oxford University Press), he says that officials, alumni, and most students of the ... Gordon College, Liberty University, Moody Bible Institute, and Wheaton College, in Illinois, in an attempt to understand what has motivated leaders asÃâà...
Madison.com
March 25, 2018
The Institute for the Future, a U.S.-based think tank, has identified “cross-cultural competency” as one of the 10 most important skills for the future workforce. ... According to the Institute for International Education, over 325,000 American students went abroad in the 2015-16 academic year. But IIE also foundÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 25, 2018
Half a century ago, when sociologist James Coleman was tasked by the U.S. Department of Education with studying educational inequality, a good school ... school professor Rucker Johnson and Sean Tanner, a senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute, confirmed the wisdom of the LCFF approach.
U.S. News & World Report
March 25, 2018
Legacy of Tennessee's Greatest War Hero May Be Education. Until he was old ... "There's nothing much here if you're not a teacher, a doctor or work at a bank," said Phil Brannon, superintendent of York Institute for three decades, the high school York established after his tour in Europe. "He realized whatÃâà...
BTW
December 31, 1999
Registration is underway for the American Booksellers Association's sixth ABC Children's Institute (Ci6), which is open to booksellers at all ABA member stores. The institute will be held June 19–21 at the Sheraton New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. The lineup of educational offerings at this year'sÃâà...
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