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Registered Rep. June 18, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more. |
Reason July 2009 Lisa Snell |
The Graduates Charter school success |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources. |
Registered Rep. January 23, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
Entrepreneur April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
T.H.E. Journal January 28, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state. |
The Motley Fool February 18, 2011 Brian Stoffel |
Why I'm Staying Away From For-Profit Education. There are a number of forces working against the industry. |
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Gutting D.C. School Vouchers After They Work As Predicted The Democratic Party, as part of its "omnibus" federal spending package, voted in March to end the Washington D.C.school voucher program after the 2009-10 school year. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
AFP eWire February 21, 2005 |
Manitoba the Most Generous Province, Again For the fifth consecutive year, Manitoba is Canada's most generous province, according to the 2004 Generosity Index, released by The Fraser Institute. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Smartest Move Colleges Ever Made Eliminating the middleman serves both schools and students. Colleges are at least making the right response to the credit crisis by making loans directly to their students. |
T.H.E. Journal September 30, 2009 David Nagel |
States Look To Raise Reading Proficiency in Title I Schools The United States Department of Education is awarding $6.61 million in grants to eight states to help improving reading achievement among poorer students. |
Chemistry World December 2, 2014 Helen Carmichael |
Eleventh hour reprieve for world-class Canadian NMR facility Canadian scientists are celebrating a victory in a bleak landscape for research funding, as a world-class nuclear magnetic resonance facility received a last minute reprieve from closure. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
A World of Hurt : Latin America Massive socioeconomic problems have left Latin American education in a dire condition, and decades behind the rest of the globe in integrating technology into teaching and learning. |
Registered Rep. December 17, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Admissions Fever The college admissions process can drive teens and their parents crazy this time of year. Here are some statistics to get clients of college-bound kids to simmer down. |
CRM May 2011 Leonard Klie |
Higher Education Increases Marketing Schools shift focus to generate more inquiries in-house and boost technology investments. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2008 Rama Ramaswami |
Make It Stretch As technology funding dwindles, districts must use the resources they do have to maximum advantage. |
Information Today July 12, 2010 |
CHLA and CIHR to Develop First Canadian Virtual Health Library The Canadian Health Libraries Association and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research are moving forward with the development of the Canadian Virtual Health Library -- a first for Canada. |
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Canadians rally for science Thousands of lab-coat clad scientists and citizens protested across Canada on Monday. Increasing concerns about cuts to key scientific institutions in Canada led to the nationwide pro-science rally. |
AFP eWire June 28, 2004 |
Fundraising Salaries Rise, Gender Gap Still Significant According to a recent study, from 2002 to 2003, both U.S. and Canadian fundraising salaries rose. However, the study also points to a significant salary disparity between male and female fundraisers. |
T.H.E. Journal |
2004 Web Site Source Book If you're tired of digging through millions of search results every time you try to locate a specific site online, then the 2004 Web Site Source Book will become the best friend for you and your students. The book offers more than 2,000 pages of URLs and other information for over 84,000 U.S. and Canadian businesses, organizations, agencies, institutions and other resources. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Francisco O. Ramirez |
Who Cares Whether Johnny Knows Science? The U.S. should worry less about not having the math and science achievement profile of South Korea or Singapore and care more about not sinking to the level of Nigeria or Thailand. Aspiring to have the best schools in the world may be great rhetoric, but it is not sound economic policy. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
Reason May 2004 Lisa Snell |
Capital Choices School voucher progress. |
T.H.E. Journal August 27, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels. |
Reason May 2007 Jacob Sullum |
Exporting Drug Prices Pharmaceutical companies argue that the higher prices paid by Americans underwrite the research and development that makes new drugs possible, in effect subsidizing consumers in other countries. Reimportation could force our northern neighbors to share that burden. |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2012 Brian Stoffel |
Was I Completely Wrong About For-Profit Education? Our analyst takes a second look at the industry's ability to disrupt. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2008 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2006 Nodine & Petrides |
ISKME Special Series Part 4: Using Data to Improve Instruction Connecting the dots: how to use data to get from districtwide goal-setting to school-level performance. |
Chemistry World October 3, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
Health check finds Canadian science doing well Canadian science is healthy and growing, according to an independent expert panel at the Council of Canadian Academies |
Registered Rep. February 19, 2013 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Majoring in Employment One of the top reasons students attend college is to get a good job. But just how much will schools help in the job search? |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Mark T. Williams |
The G-20 Superpowers Should Learn From Canada Canada has been the gold standard of banking prudence. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2011 John Reeves |
5 Banks That Will Let You Sleep at Night Look to our northern neighbors for some reliable banking investments. |
Managed Care March 2002 Marlene Piturro |
Some Lessons To Be Learned From Canadian Health System Our neighbors to the north deliver care that is cheaper, but there are disputes concerning quality and growing unrest with irrational rationing... |
Investment Advisor December 2006 Geoff Kirbyson |
Canadian Cold Front Hits Unit Trusts The surprise proclamation by the Canadian government that the income trust sector will lose its preferential tax status by 2011 sent shockwaves through the country's fastest-growing sector and will almost certainly pour cold water on U.S. investors' interest north of the border. |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2003 Seth Jayson |
MP3 Gets Canadian Sin Tax Canadian government saddles MP3 players with special copyright-infringement tax. |
Registered Rep. May 20, 2013 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Gerard Torres |
Go Canada for Your Banking Buys With a booming economy, Canadian banks are looking like good investments. |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Where to Look for Surprising Dividend Stocks Canada has its share of great dividend payers. |
Reason May 2002 Jeremy Lott |
Maple Leaf Rag Does Canada matter? Canada is not just a nation in decline. There is a real question as to what even makes it a nation... |
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 John Carey |
Is Reimporting Drugs A Cheap Fix? Not Really Why reimporting drugs from Canada won't work in the long run |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2007 Zoe Van Schyndel |
Go Loonie With a Canadian ETF While the U.S. economy has been suffering, the Canadian economy has been on a tear. The iShares MSCI Canada Index exchange-traded fund gives investors a way to take advantage of the booming Canadian economy. |
National Defense May 2006 Robert H. Williams |
Unmanned Vehicle Speeds Dam Inspections Remotely operated vehicles produced by JW Fishers are now being used in several Canadian provinces to inspect hydroelectric dams. |
AskMen.com Scott Carter |
Personal Finance: Canadian Common Sense Some Canadian common sense the U.S. might want to consider following in these tough economic times. |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Bonjour, Bank of Montreal! There may be little separating the United States and Canada in some respects, but you don't hear a lot of talk about Canadian equities on this side of the border. This stock might be a safer play on Canada. |
The Motley Fool April 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Canadian National Stays On Track Things are still going gangbusters for this operationally superior railroad, but investors should look for a greater discount on these shares before buying. |