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Dell Foundation Gives $500k Grant to ST Math Education Initiative in New York City

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is providing a $500,000 grant to the education non-profit MIND Research Institute to bring its innovative, visual math education program to 6,000 New York City elementary school students in 2012, in a blended learning environment. Currently used in six of the nation’s 10 largest pu...

6 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Verizon Foundation Launches STEM Education Initiative

Every day in schools across the country, students are told to turn off and put away their mobile devices. Yet, studies show that these devices can get students interested in science, technology, engineering and math. And Verizon has a plan to do something about it.

6 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Use Google Drive as a “Stepping Stone” to 3D Learning

Craig Roberts, assistant director of education at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, believes his students learn better when they explain things visually. So, he has them build fruit fly brains out of Play-Doh, and construct human brain cells out of miscellany from The Scrap Exchange, a local nonprofit creative reu...

6 months ago by EdCetera Staff

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Teaching Without Words: A Conversation With Researcher Matthew Petersen

Matthew Petersen is an extremely smart person who as a child struggled with dyslexia and the way he was taught in the traditional school system—a system that focuses on words and numbers.

7 months ago by Jonathan Wai

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High School Wind Energy Project Inspires College Careers in STEM

Wind is the fastest growing source of renewable energy in the world today and the students at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, Maine, have learned that first hand. Six months after the commissioning of the school’s NPS 100 wind turbine, the students, teachers and community have grown accustomed to the 1...

7 months ago by Guest Author

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Foundation for Excellence in Education

The Foundation for Excellence in Education is igniting a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st century economy. Excellence in Action, the organization’s flagship initiative, is working with lawmakers and policymakers to advance education reform across America. Learn more at www.Exce...

University Venture Hosts STEM Education Event in NYC

University Ventures Fund plans to host "Reinventing Engineering Education in the 21st Century," an event to bring together aspiring STEM high school students, current university-enrolled engineers, and recent graduates in the industry, in New York City at General Assembly Monday, October 15, 2012 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p....

7 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Blended Learning Program Helps 35 LAUSD Schools Nearly Double Math Gains

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools showed significant gains, nearly doubling their growth in math proficiency between 2010 and 2012, with MIND Research Institute’s ST Math®, a visually based instructional software program featuring the animated penguin named JiJi, which fits naturally into a blended...

7 months ago by Getting Smart Staff