Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth is taking the next logical step: launching what is believed to be the nation’s first online high school for gifted students.
The virtual high school will offer a full standard curriculum — and more — for students in 10th through 12th grades, leading to a high school diploma.
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Stanford University will offer the first online high school for gifted students.
The high school, developed by Stanford’s Education Program for Gifted Youth, will begin accepting students this spring for classes in the fall. It’s a three-year, fully accredited high school that will grant diplomas.
Officials with Stanford’s gifted program expect the school will draw students from [...]
A Clark County School District special education teacher has been suspended. District officials won’t discuss personnel matters but the teacher was reportedly suspended for lying on his application.
Fred Kober, 56, is accused of sexual misconduct at his previous jobs. He says he lied on his Clark County School District application because he knew he wouldn’t [...]
The federal Education Department has agreed to review requests from 20 states to alter significantly the way they measure student progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. The move comes as the number of schools across the country deemed substandard under that law grows by the thousands.
The requests, which Education Secretary Margaret Spellings invited [...]
Seagate Technology announced that it will issue $20,000 in scholarships to high-school students in the St. Vrain and Boulder Valley School Districts and to a limited number of those awarded scholarships in 2005, for 2006-07 enrollment in the colleges of engineering at Colorado State University and University of Colorado at Boulder.
The students will be selected [...]
A Clark County School District special education teacher has been suspended. District officials won’t discuss personnel matters but the teacher was reportedly suspended for lying on his application.
Fred Kober, 56, is accused of sexual misconduct at his previous jobs. He says he lied on his Clark County School District application because he knew he wouldn’t [...]
Middle school students who want to prepare for entry into the nation’s top colleges are encouraged to apply for The Colorado Springs School Scholar program. Colorado Springs School Scholars will be awarded up to $5000 toward tuition, which will be renewed each year during middle school if the student remains in good standing.
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Thirty-two college students from across the United States have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2006, the scholarship trust announced Sunday.
The scholars, selected from 903 applicants who were endorsed by 333 colleges and universities, will enter Oxford University in England next October. The scholarships are the oldest of the international study awards available to American [...]