Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.
May 21, 2013
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Gender gap in STEM majors linked to high school job plans
(Phys.org) —The fact that women are much less likely than men to choose science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors in college can be traced to gender differences in occupational plans in high school, reports ...
May 10, 2013
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What the birth rate says about changing family dynamics
(Phys.org) —An Iowa State University sociologist is not surprised by a recent U.S. Census Bureau report showing a spike in the number of unmarried women giving birth. According to the report, nearly 36 percent of babies ...
May 10, 2013
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NASA high school STEM challenge announces winning team
The NASA RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge, an integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics program focused on NASA's forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope, has named the 2012-2013 ...
May 03, 2013
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Puerto Rico teams take top spots at 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
(Phys.org) —NASA today declared the winners of the 20th NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. Team 1 from Teodoro Aguilar Mora Vocational High School of Yabucoa, ...
Apr 29, 2013
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Study finds troubling patterns of teacher assignments within schools
Even within the same school, lower-achieving students often are taught by less-experienced teachers, as well as by teachers who received their degrees from less-competitive colleges, according to a new study by researchers ...
Apr 23, 2013
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The bigger the group, the smaller the chance of interracial friendship, research finds
The larger the group, the smaller the chance of forming interracial friendships, a new University of Michigan study shows.Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study examines how the size o ...
Apr 15, 2013
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One factor that can help determine black men's college success
Beyond good test scores and high school grades, a new study finds one key factor that helps predict if a young black man will succeed at a predominantly white university.
Apr 09, 2013
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Math problems are a problem for job-seekers, employers say
Before job-seekers fill out an application for work making foam products for the aerospace industry at General Plastics Manufacturing Co. in Tacoma, Wash., they have to take a math test. Eighteen questions, 30 minutes, and ...
Apr 04, 2013
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'Mean Girls' at college: Social whirl derails many, study finds
(Phys.org) —You're not done with high school when you go to college, according to a new study of student culture.
Apr 03, 2013
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Getting married later can have economic costs, benefits
Americans are getting married at ever-older ages, and a new report says this trend may be partly responsible for the shrinking of the middle class.
Mar 15, 2013
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US spy agency holds contest to find young hackers (Update)
Bored with classes? One of the U.S. government's top spy agencies and Carnegie Mellon University want to interest students in a game of computer hacking.
Mar 15, 2013
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High school math course titles don't matter much
(AP)—When it comes to high school math, the course titles don't really matter or even predict what's in the textbook.
Mar 12, 2013
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School policies, biased teachers hamper immigrant children's learning
(Phys.org) —U.S. high school "sink or swim" placement policies that propel immigrant students into courses that they're linguistically and academically unprepared for – or conversely, that funnel all newcomers into remedial ...
Mar 08, 2013
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Voucher study focuses on high school graduation: First strong evidence of educational attainment gains
(Phys.org) —More students who used vouchers in a Washington, D.C., program to attend private schools graduated from high school than students in public schools who did not receive the vouchers, according to a University ...
Mar 05, 2013
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