Last week my best friend was complaining to me about how expensive Mount Holyoke College is. My friends daughter is a sophomore at the womens college and she makes too much money to qualify for any financial aid. My friend can afford the tuition, but for the first time she was expressing her resentment that [...]
Mile High United Way funds literacy programs to serve 24,000 more kids under age 8
Eleven programs across Colorado are getting a boost of about $2.5 million in grant funds to help get more kids reading by third grade. Of the winners announced Wednesday, one in Denver will be using its chunk of the funds to get more teachers and parents reading to their infants and toddlers in an engaging [...]
Ancient artifacts donated to WV Natural History Museum
Displays in West Virginia Universitys Natural History Museum arent simply wild theyre prehistoric. The Museum recently received an in-kind donation of world class stone-age artifacts displaying and representing the entire range of paleolithic tool technology dating from 2.5-million-year-old Unifacial Mode I Oldawan cobble choppers to the 5,000-year-old neolithic hafted arrowheads and includes every major tool [...]
NCLB Waiver Cheat Sheet: How to Win in the Second Round
With the clock ticking toward the Feb. 28 second-round deadline for states to apply for a waiver under No Child Left Behind, states are scrambling to glean insight from the first-round results so they can get their proposals in tip-top shape. You can dig through the voluminous amount of documents that the Education Department posted [...]