Education News Archives

“Having a group of such pre-eminent thought leaders provide such input and direction will allow the development of much needed evidence-based education in the area of fibromyalgia syndrome”

Main Category: Pain / Anesthetics News Article Date: 31 Dec 2007 - 0:00 PST newsletters The newly formed Advisory Council on Fibromyalgia Education comprised of internationally recognized clinicians and ... via Medical News Today

Just a year and a half after going private, Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp. via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal - by Carissa Wyant Staff Writer The Mosaic Co. via Bizjournals

Online education, popularly referred to as e-learning is one of the latest innovations to have hit the field of education and within a short period of time following its inception, it has developed ... via American Chronicle

Type of Industry: Caregiving Number of Employees: 18,000 Location: World-wide Bright Horizons Family Solutions provides employer-sponsored childcare, early education and work/life solutions. via AARP Bulletin

“We have been waiting for them to abandon the rail line, and they are in the process of doing that.”

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Virginia Beach wants a $15 million grant from the Virginia Department of Transportation to help pay for the rail line that runs between Newtown and Birdneck roads if an agreement to sell ... via Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

Always stay in with the outs. David Halberstam Inside Washington and out, the school improvement industry is associated more with Republicans than Democrats and more with conservatives than liberals. via Education Week

“A new generation of teachers is being formed and they are, by traditional academic measures, stronger than they were eight years ago.”

Beginning teachers these days have better academic credentials than their predecessors did a decade ago, a new study finds. via The Daily Times

“Future Spending on Open Source Initiatives in the US and Asia-Pac Education Market 2006 - 2012 (Databook)”

Introduction This databook covers the open source software market in Education from 2006-2012. Australia, Canada, India and the United States are sized. via PR-inside.com

Kent SeniorNet to offer voice-recognition class Kent SeniorNet is offering a four-week voice-recognition class using Dragon Naturally Speak, starting Jan. via The Journal News

“That's just what I followed and I graduated from college in '92 and I've been doing it ever since”

Teacher of the Year Chantilly teacher Lori Grebner wins national award. By John Grimsley November 29, 2007 Chesterbrook Academy Principal Fran Robison standing with Teacher of the Year Lori Grebner at the Nobel ... via Alexandria Gazette-Packet

Now that Microsoft exams are only available through Prometric I have to drive over 2 hours to take a Microsoft certification exam! Sometime within the past year Microsoft certification exams became available ... via Geekswithblogs.net

A mere 18 months after going private, Education Management Corp. plans to go public again by registering up to $500 million worth of initial public shares, according to a filing Friday with the Securities and ... via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“Professionals attending this course will be exposed to the skills and knowledge required to build a secure Exchange 2007 infrastructure and implement its built-in compliance features.”

Course participants will also receive instruction in... -- Assessing e-mail vulnerabilities within their organization -- Protecting their environment from internal threats -- Minimizing the risks to Exchange ... via PR-inside.com

“Comcast holds customer privacy in the highest regard”

Video Professor, Inc. has dropped its subpoena asking Infomercialscams.com for the names of 100 John Does who anonymously posted their gripes about the computer lessons but still has an active lawsuit against ... via ConsumerAffairs.Com

Private school operator Nobel Learning Communities said Thursday it has agreed to buy nine Enchanted Care Learning Centers in the Columbus, Ohio, market for $15 million. via Philadelphia Business Journal

Online education or e-learning refers to the art of imparting education via the internet and today online learning has emerged ads one of the most popular trends of spreading education and knowledge. via American Chronicle

“We have created this updated course to sharpen the focus on a topic that has been the focal point of numerous investigations”

The corrected release reads: KAPLAN FINANCIAL DEVELOPS NEW ETHICS TRAINING TO EDUCATE BOOMER-SENIOR INVESTMENT ADVISORS Seniors and Baby Boomers form the largest, most lucrative consumer market in the ... via PR-inside.com

“The biggest theme over the past couple of years has been reaching out and collaborating with our community partners in a much different way than we have in the past”

Through its community and outreach programs, Kamehameha Schools reached more than 35,000 Native Hawaiian children and families in its most recent fiscal year, up 27 percent from the previous year, Kamehameha ... via The Honolulu Advertiser

Universal Technical Institute Inc. said Wednesday Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Haslip will leave the company March 31. via MSN Money

EVCI Career Colleges Inc., the Yonkers-based company that runs colleges, plans to close its Interboro Institute at the end of this semester because it was unable to raise money it needed to keep the school ... via The Journal News

“Listen to ideas. Take notes. Follow up. Get better, get better, get better.”

Linkage, Inc. , a global leadership and organizational development company, has announced the highest attendance ever at one of its training workshops since the company's inception in 1988. via Earth Times

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-- --Blackboard Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise technology to the education community, today announces that Blackboard has signed a major three year nation-wide e-Learning ... via Business Wire

“We feel right now Cape has expanded to such degree”

Sylvan Learning Center looks to open its fourth Lee County facility in Cape Coral on Jan. via News Press

“One of the ladies who worked at Homeward Bound part-time said 'You're really good with the kids here. You should come where I work.' I left the shelter and went to SC Johnson Childcare”

Twelve years ago, Stephanie Kober was homeless. Today, she is the Children's Program manager at the Homeless Assistance Leadership Organization. via The Journal Times

Billion tuition subsidy set for private HS students A total of P2.9 billion have been earmarked as tuition subsidy for 711,750 underprivileged students in private high schools under the expanded Government ... via Manila Bulletin

Stevens Institute of Technology Professor Dr. Jerry Luftman has published the article, "An Update on Business-IT Alignment: 'A Line' Has Been Drawn," in MIS Quarterly Executive's September 2007 issue. via Nerve News

“He went from reading at a kindergarten level to a first-grade reading level in a matter of months”

Staff photo by Steven King, The Sylvan Learning Center in Casa Grande closed unexpectedly Wednesday. via Casa Grande Dispatch

“They don't have a lot of fixed costs, and they've done a great job of managing working capital”

Consumer whims, Federal Reserve interest rate moves, subprime lending debacles and surprises from competitors. via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“The quality of folks coming into the profession is rising”

Teaching is attracting better-qualified people than it did just a few years ago, according to a report released Tuesday by the Educational Testing Service. via HeraldTribune.com

“We dictate what we want, and if we don't get it, we reject the offer.”

Negotiations are expected to continue now that school board members rejected a proposed management contract 3-2 Tuesday night for the district's top performing school, San Jose-Edison Academy. via Pasadena Star-News

“Our most valuable asset as an organization is our reputation for delivering high-quality educational programs, and we are fully committed to maintaining and enhancing this standard of excellence across the company.”

As a result, AIU's accreditation continues in good standing. SACS placed AIU on probation in December 2005, setting in motion extensive actions by the University to meet the accrediting agency's concerns. via PR-inside.com

Transcender, a part of Kaplan IT Learning and a provider of award-winning exam preparation software for IT certification tests, today announced the release of practice exams for Microsoft ' s new Windows Server ... via Business Wire

A third of the state's residents in that age group have a college degree compared to 43 percent nationally, leaving the state short of college-educated workers needed to compete in a global marketplace, the ... via Tribune-Times

“Given the company's strong execution history and ability to consistently meet or exceed its guidance and long-term growth goals over the last five years, we believe that management's statements are reasonable”

Shares of ITT Educational Services rallied on Monday after an analyst upgraded the stock, saying a recent a sell-off related to the education company's exposure to private loans presents a buying opportunity. via BusinessWeek

“It suggests that private equity investors and others see education once again as a potentially lucrative place to invest their money.”

A Baltimore company formed to invest in the education industry raised $50 million yesterday in an initial public offering.

Camden Learning Corp. said it hopes to make an acquisition focusing on 'early child care, K-12 or post-secondary education or corporate training and related businesses,' according to documents filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But no deal is in the works, the company said in the SEC filing.

Camden Learning, backed by the Baltimore private equity firm Camden Partners, said it offered 6.25 million units for $8 a common share. Each share also included a warrant allowing investors to buy another share at $5.50 at a later date. Read more

“It reports biosynthesis of a novel antibiotic”

Stevens Institute of Technology's Professor Athule B. Attygalle and his doctoral student Kithsiri B. Herath have collaborated with Merck Pharmaceutical's Dr. via MediLexicon

“Hey, what happened to Rebecca? ... She still seems to be gone. I would have suspected that by now she would be back. Perhaps good riddance is in order?!!!:)”

Channel 4's Rebecca Aguilar -- gone, but not forgotten Courtesy Uncle Barky , this morning we find over at the Poynter Institute an article wherein TV news directors and general managers from across the country ... via Dallas Observer

HERNDON & DULLES, Va. -- -- IceWEB, Inc. , a leading one-stop source for best-of-class computing hardware, on-demand software, advanced networking solutions and innovative online services, today announced that ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

A technique developed by an Eastern Virginia Medical School doctor to detect fetal heart problems has been licensed by GE Healthcare, the country's largest manufacturer of 3-dimensional ultrasound systems. via WAVY-TV Portsmouth

“It is likely that The Washington Post Co. of the future will be more an education company and a little less a media company every year”

In a meeting with Wall Street analysts and shareholders yesterday, Post Co. chairman Donald E. Graham rebranded The Washington Post Co . via Editors Weblog

The Iowa attorney general's office wants the IRS to review the salaries of board members of the Iowa City-based ACT Incorporated. via WHO-TV Des Moines

Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 5, 2007; 9:07 AM Donald E. Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Co. via Washington Post

“We pioneer flight solutions that bring people home everywhere every time. ”

FlightSafety's Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Simulator Receives FAA & CAA Level D Qualification LA GUARDIA AIRPORT, NEW YORK FlightSafety International announced today that its second Sikorsky S-92 full flight ... via Rotor.com

“In the case of Australia the aid programs in post-secondary education have decreased dramatically while commercial services expanded”

COUNTRIES with lucrative export education industries are less likely to be generous with educational aid, and Australia is one of the main culprits, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ... via The Australian

“With the demand for publicly traded shares in colleges and universities, Warnock and his partners are in the right place at the right time, again”

Recent recommendations regarding how to create supply to satisfy demand for publicly traded colleges and universities seem prescient now that a well known team is going back to the well for more investor money. via WebWire

“Despite setbacks in the HIV prevention field over the past year, the global effort to develop effective new prevention tools, including microbicides, must go on”

Main Category: HIV / AIDS News Article Date: 03 Dec 2007 - 4:00 PST newsletters The CONRAD Program of the Eastern Virginia Medical School today announced that it has received a $28.5 million grant from the Bill ... via Medical News Today

“I think it's going to be difficult for us to get there, but it's the goal that we're going to have to work on.”

A national report indicates that South Dakota has the highest rate of students who go on to colleges or technical instruction after high school. via Rapid City Journal

Make children the No. 1 priority in schools December 2, 2007 In response to Margaret Schimizzi Smith's letter of Nov. via Star-Gazette.COM

Dear Scott: How about talking about Career Education? I bought the stock back in May of 2004 and haven't made any money yet. via News-Sun

“The purpose for this cyber security for seniors is to educate people to be on their guard”

Local seniors have one more weapon in their arsenal against identity theft. On Nov. via San Jose Mercury News