Saturday, March 13, 2010

Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.

Education- Everything you need to know about the world of education.


Lottery shows surge of interest in DC schools


D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee (Benjamin J. Myers).














Obama’s contradictions on education

What do those groups -- each of which is receiving $125,000 of the total $1.4 million that he received -- have in common?
They all work to help underserved populations of young people get ready to attend and be successful in college.
Obama has said repeatedly that his education goal is to make sure that every child has a quality education and the opportunity to graduate from college -- and he displayed his commitment to that with his own award money.
Yet his education policies to this point cannot ever reach this goal. Nor can they do what he promised during the presidential campaign: Stop high-stakes standardized testing from driving our public education system.
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Hopkins: We will cut emissions by half

Johns Hopkins University yesterday announced one of the more ambitious sustainability initiatives in higher education, with a goal of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by more than half by 2025.
Hopkins says it will invest $73 million in conservation and efficiency measures estimated to cut emissions by 81,000 metric tons a year, which would take them a little over halfway to their goal. That goal is to cut 141,000 metric tons from the 276,000 tons in annual emissions the university projects it would generate 15 years hence.
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Dozens of colleges in the regionhave launched sustainability initiatives, driven partly by an impulse to practice what university researchers preach about the perils of global warming.
The Hopkins plan relies somewhat on technologies that don't yet exist: the university says it hopes to reduce its carbon footprint by "adopting new technologies that emerge between now and 2025," and also by "motivating members of the university community" to save energy on their own.
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