What lies beneath Barack Obama’s well-polished rhetoric will shock you. Obama touts ‘change’ but his version is nothing less than a frontal assault on American values and traditions. Obama’s goal? Bring America to her knees through a policy of ‘managed decline.’ On his watch, our great nation will become a second-rate country on a [...]

Only weeks before the 2008 presidential conventions, political veterans, including Representative John B. Anderson, Alderman Edward Burke, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator George McGovern and Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III, met today to recall the old presidential nominating system and the profound changes in the way America selects its presidential candidates. The discussion, [...]

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization focused on providing educational tools to help children in developing countries “learn learning,” is strengthening its presence in Asia with the appointments of Anthony S K Wong as President of OLPC China and Satish Jha as President of OLPC India.
“With 40 percent of the world’s children located [...]

I GREW UP in a place known for its crime and violence, and where the homicide rate is higher than the college attendance rate, announced Yien Kwan Saechao as she was being honored at a recent tea hosted by Karlynn van Digglen in Blackhawk.
It was at that point when Carol Lee Bishop, president of the [...]

USA TODAY Education, the arm of the USA TODAY brand that develops and delivers educational products and resources to students and educators nationwide, has launched a national initiative in partnership with FYI-Film Your Issue, inviting college students to write about their views on major issues for possible publication online and in the print edition.
“Write Your [...]

The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) has three to five vacant student scholarships for master’s degree students who have completed their coursework and are in the process of writing theses. Scholarships will be granted for a period of six to twelve months, commencing in July 2006.
For successful applicants, PRIO offers a monthly stipend of [...]

Springfield businessman Joe Jenkins has traveled the world. Now, he wants to give students a chance to do the same.
Jenkins, owner of Jenkins Diesel Power, has committed to a $25,000 gift to Missouri State University, to be used to establish the Grace Gardner Endowed Scholarship for Study Away.
An anonymous donor has pledged another $25,000 to [...]