Foreigners in Japan rely on Twitter for breaking news
Twitter has been a lifeline for Westerners both inside and outside of Japan as they try to keep up with fast-moving events following the March 11 massive earthquake…
Month: March 2011
It came from their lab. But how to take it to the bank?
There are a lot of smart people in universities. Some may even be geniuses. Many of them are certainly good at inventing technologies that will change our lives,…
Small campuses focus on retaining students with the help of technology
An Arizona community college and a New York campus with 1,000 students are using technology embraced by large research universities to stem alarming drops in student retention, especially…
Thousands gather for Ind. Statehouse union rally
Union workers, teachers, lawmakers and labor organizers said at a huge Statehouse rally Thursday that Indiana Republicans and GOP leaders nationwide have gone too far in pushing an…
As competitors pop up, iPad keeps price advantage
The new iPad model hitting stores Friday comes with several improvements over the original version but the same price tag, hobbling efforts by rivals at breaking Apple Inc.'s…
LinkedIn launches social news site for professionals
LinkedIn the company is unveiling another piece of its strategy to make LinkedIn a destination site for more than just job-seekers, with the launch of LinkedIn Today, reports…
Pa. gov’s deep higher-ed cuts draw protests
Pennsylvania's new Republican governor is under fire for proposing the nation's biggest cuts in higher education--more than 50 percent for some universities--while refusing to tax the gas drilling…
Fed rule could have ‘major chilling effect’ on online instruction
Colleges that offer online instruction nationwide would have to get approval from every state in which they operate, or those online courses could be shut down, after the…
Most public schools may miss targets, Education Secretary says
More than 80,000 of the nation’s 100,000 public schools could be labeled as failing under No Child Left Behind, the main federal law on public education, Secretary of…
Half the game is mental; So is the other half
The students memorize all they can, usually in 15-minute stretches of tedious silence, reports the New York Times.