October 2010
147 posts
High School Reform →
Grants to 28 high schools and 29 states and districts will support stronger academic performance and dropout prevention in high schools.
American Indian Students →
63 grants will help strengthen programs at colleges and universities that serve American Indian students.
Magnet Schools →
Grants to 36 school districts will help desegregate schools, expand school choice, and increase options for parents.
Parent Information Centers →
ED announced grants for 15 special education Parent Training and Information Centers and 10 Community Parent Resource Centers.
Hispanic-Serving Institutions →
99 grants will help improve programs at colleges and universities that enroll high percentages of Hispanic students.
September 2010
354 posts
100% Placement for PC ProSchools of Brookfield →
Marissa Mayer: Orkut’s U.S. Failure Was Due To Slow Performance After Fast Growth: Today at our TechCrunch Disrup… http://bit.ly/apyHjF
Five Months In, 2 Million Websites Using Facebook’s New Social Plugins: At the Web 2.0 expo in New York today, Fac… http://bit.ly/aPajP4
The Future Of Mobile Advertising Is In Pull, Not Push: We brought 4INFO founder and CEO Zaw Thet, VP of Groupon M… http://bit.ly/b9ov2O
Clean Tech Investor Vinod Khosla: “Environmentalists Get In The Way”: “Environmentalists get in the way…and do mo… http://bit.ly/c78yG1
US EPA Publishes Paper on Energy Savings from Energy Star-Qualified Enterprise Servers Running Windows Server 2008… http://bit.ly/aiZabg
After YouTube, Turkey Moves To Ban Video Sharing Site Vimeo: Turkish courts have famously banned video sharing j… http://bit.ly/cNbW7s
Qwiki Wins TechCrunch Disrupt: Information Consumption To Be Disrupted: The votes have been tallied. The judges h… http://bit.ly/b0ktwu
When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed: On stage today at our TechCrunch Dis… http://bit.ly/aHUdYK
For Better Or Worse, Gmail Makes Threaded Emails Optional: Threaded emails in Gmail is a controversial subject. S… http://bit.ly/abG1WM
Social Learning Company Koofers Raises $5 Million From Revolution, Others: Social learning startup Koofers today … http://bit.ly/cZQ6qU
Nintendo 3DS To Land In The US In March. All You Need To Know.: Nintendo revealed at its 3DS press conference in… http://bit.ly/bv7kMy
Atlassian Buys Mercurial Project Hosting Site BitBucket: In July, product development software company Atlassian s… http://bit.ly/b0fii7
A Disrupt Break: Angels Hold “Office Hours” on Formspring Today: In Silicon Valley fortunes can change in a matter… http://bit.ly/a0Hoty
PayPal Will Soon Ramp Up Protection Of Buyers Worldwide (But Not For Me): PayPal has offered buyer protection on … http://bit.ly/dgb9Rc
AOL Buys TechCrunch: The Song: We’re now part of AOL, and Mike has already written at length about what that means… http://bit.ly/9XUFcf
EngageSciences Secures $750,000 Angel Round For ‘Social Nurturing’ Service: EngageSciences, exhibiting in the Star… http://bit.ly/b396xx
In Louisville, a new turn in school integration →
LOUISVILLE — Elementary schools in white neighborhoods here are whiter now, and those in the black neighborhoods are blacker.
Under an integration plan the U.S. Supreme Court struck…
Special-needs students named homecoming queens and... →
CHESTER, S.D. — Homecoming brought joy to Betsy Daniel this fall, when classmates chose her as homecoming queen.
A similar scene played out this month in New Mexico, where students…
Summit on Community Colleges →
On October 5, Dr. Jill Biden will host the first ever White House Summit on Community Colleges. Find out more.
Support for Counseling Programs →
Grants have been awarded to 42 local education agencies in 20 states to establish and expand counseling programs.
More High-Quality Charter Schools →
Twelve grants to charter school management organizations will help replicate and expand high-quality charter schools.
Why No Women Want To Be On A “Women In Tech” Panel: Women in tech, the song that never ends … Somebody realizes th… http://bit.ly/bGWLAP
The AOL Announcement, The Video(s) TCTV: As you may have heard, AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong had some fairly significa… http://bit.ly/dqLj5K
Better Boost Your Stats: Gild Turns Hunting For A Tech Job Into A Game: If you’ve ever gone job hunting online (an… http://bit.ly/d6RhOe
MobilePay May Be The Death Of The Wallet. Yes, For Real This Time.: I absolutely hate carrying around both my phon… http://bit.ly/cutF2Q
GameCrush Lets Guys Pay Money To Play Online Games With Women (Seriously): Meet GameCrush, a startup that manages … http://bit.ly/9mFCYg
Benchmark’s Gurley: With 500M Users, Facebook Could Go Public At A Cattle Auction: Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, E… http://bit.ly/aIerJV
Figure Out Your Flying Needs With Superfly: People are obsessed with airline mileage, but it’s really difficult to… http://bit.ly/apBtr3
Pinger Now Turns Your iPod Touch Into A Free Cell Phone: Earlier this month we took a look at Pinger, the company … http://bit.ly/cISIW5
Google Buys Schedule Management Startup Plannr: According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, Google has… http://bit.ly/aqDLY0
Green Dot: The $2 Billion IPO You’ve Never Heard Of: There’s a good chance you’ve seen prepaid credit cards on the… http://bit.ly/byyjJA
TechCrunch Disrupt Live: Day Two: Welcome back, startup fans. It’s time for another day packed full of tech illum… http://bit.ly/cpCJLW
Amazon Debuts “Kindle for the Web”, Which Is Pretty Much What It Sounds Like: Amazon.com today introduced the beta… http://bit.ly/awZOGe
Brizzly Plays Feature Catch-Up, Adds Foursquare And “New” Retweet Support: When I logged on to Brizzly this morni… http://bit.ly/aflZWX
Twitter “Setting Aside” @EarlyBird Program: According to a Tweet from All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka, this morni… http://bit.ly/dbg6Up
Obama: Education key to economic success →
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Determined to energize dispirited Democrats, President Barack Obama told New Mexico voters on Tuesday that Republicans would reverse the progress he’s…
Gates Foundation gives $3M to 4 cities to boost... →
SEATTLE (AP) — For many years, diversity in higher education has been measured by how many low-income students and students of color enroll in college. The Bill & Melinda Gates…
Women close in on male-dominated fields →
The gender gap among college majors once dominated by men is narrowing, and younger generations of women account for nearly half of science and business graduates, a USA TODAY…
CUNY, IBM to open high school-college hybrid →
NEW YORK (AP) — The City University of New York and IBM will open a unique school that merges high school with two years of college, allowing students to earn an associate’s…
Super Angels: Like Making Love To A Lover. VCs: Like Making Love To The Government.: “The difference between a ‘su… http://bit.ly/bhYpI1
The Panel That’s Definitely, Maybe Not About AngelGate: Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisc… http://bit.ly/bI0wHd
Where Buys LocalGinger To Gain Location-Based Social Commerce Know-How: Location-based media company Where has ac… http://bit.ly/dwVWST
HP’s Bradley Is Thinking About Ink Prices Just In Case He TAKES The CEO Position: Maybe it was just a slip. Or may… http://bit.ly/cFvKxx
TechCrunch Disrupt LIVE Webcast, Day One (TCTV): Standby in 3 – 2 – 1: We are now live from San Francisco with T… http://bit.ly/c70Dtj