A new scholarship program aims to recruit new teachers in Lenoir and Greene counties with free college tuition and licensure within a year of enrolling.
The Rural Teaching Fellows Initiative, sponsored by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) and a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, will license 150 teachers [...]
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College has been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to help more students become teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the university’s School of Education a $2.2 million five-year “Transition to Teaching†grant.
The grant is designed to implement a fast-track alternative teaching certificate program for recent college [...]
The Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers donated $10,000 to the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program yesterday as school Superintendent Mark Roosevelt and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl called on others to step forward with contributions.
The teachers’ contribution was the first to the scholarship fund, a city-school district partnership launched in December. “We don’t really even have an account set [...]
Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1983, A Handbook for Medical Teachers has established itself as an ideal resource for new and established teachers who frequently still have little opportunities for education training. Its popularity relates to the successful combination of sound educational principles, a how-to-do-it approach and an [...]
Teachers and students of environmental sciences and ecology now have an affordable and accurate way to construct and study ecosystems with PASCO scientific’s new EcoZone(TM) System designed to help students model and understand the complex interactions within — and among — different ecosystems. The system sells for $99.
EcoZone allows students to move beyond traditional observation [...]
It’s been 10 years since SilkAir flight MI 185 crashed in Palembang on December 19, on its route from Jakarta to Singapore.
All 104 passengers and crew members died. However, the memory of one victim – Kathryn Worth – lives on, through a scholarship set up by her husband.
Kathryn loved to travel; she was equally at [...]
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG – News) today awarded $1 million to Teach For America’s Connecticut region. Teach For America is the national corps of top college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity. The grant, to be [...]
Starting in the academic year of 2007-08, Seton Hill University (SHU) will offer a new scholarship available to incoming freshman.
This is the new “Seton Scholars†program, and four incoming freshman will be chosen to receive a full-tuition scholarship, renewable for four years, valued at $100,000 each.
One scholarship will be offered in each academic division-one in [...]
Trailblazers, the student alumni association at the University of New Mexico, is currently sponsoring a Tuition Scholarship Raffle, which will give one lucky winner the opportunity to win 12 undergraduate credit hours of paid tuition for the Fall 2007 semester. This is the first time such an event will take place at UNM. The Trailblazers [...]
SANTA FE – A proposal to help avert a financial shortfall in a lottery-backed college scholarship program has cleared the Senate.
The bill would freeze college tuition for students receiving a scholarship from the program. The scholarships cover the costs of tuition at state colleges and universities for eligible New Mexico students.
Senate Republican Leader Stuart Ingle [...]