education
The Pulse, 8/30/09: SAT scores and the perennial achievement gap
With the new academic year just around the corner, Rhode Island’s new Education Commissioner Deborah Gist is looking forward to making some needed changes in local schools – among them, addressing an achievement gap between urban and suburban, poor and affluent, and minority and non-minority students.
This week on the Pulse, Alessandra Suuberg catches up with [...]
Colleges, financial aid offices fear the worst is yet to come
By Julia Leonard >> This post syndicated with permission from Scoop44.com.
As high school seniors across the country scramble to visit the schools they’ve been accepted to and to weigh the benefits and weaknesses of each college, financial aid offices are struggling to retain current students while still bringing in a strong freshman class. Reports in [...]
Babson College prepares to re-open
The president of Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., says the school should be ready to reopen tomorrow following an outbreak of a norovirus.
The illness, which causes nausea and vomiting, infected some 100 students and staff, prompting a multi-day shutdown of the campus.
President Leonard Schlesinger says calls to Health Services have declined, as have reports of [...]
Weekly Blog Round-Up: Stolen Diamonds Edition
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Blog Round-Up, where we spotlight the best articles on our blog this week, plus five awesome things from elsewhere online that you need to see.
From the News Blog
5) Unless you’ve been living under a rock (a rock furnished with a computer for accessing the WBRU News [...]
