Kennedy Returns Home To Recuperate From Brain Surgery
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After recovering for a week from brain surgery, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was released from the hospital Monday.
Doctors for the 76 year-old Massachusetts Democrat are pleased with Kennedy’s progress since his June 2 operation, and he will continue to recuperate at his Hyannis Port home before starting radiation treatments and chemotherapy, according to a statement [...]
Wb Approves Grant For Burkina Faso Health, Education Project
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The World Bank on Thursday approved a grant and credit in 20 million U.S. dollars for health and education projects in the Republic of Burkina Faso.
The amount consists of 15 million dollars in additional grants for the Health Sector Support and Multisectoral AIDS project and a5-million-dollar credit for the International Institute for Water and Environmental [...]
Mini Health Fair Finds Major Diabetes Problem Among Marshallese
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The health education department for the Jones Center for Families, collaborated with area providers to bring the side-event to the annual event in Springdale. Over the Memorial Holiday weekend, hundreds of Marshall Islanders, residing in Arkansas and across the U.S., came to commemorate the 29th anniversary of their homeland’s constitution and welcome Republic of the [...]
Obama Gets Economic Tour Underway
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George Bush called it the Ownership Society, but it’s little more than a worn dogma that says we should give more to those at the top and hope that their good fortune trickles down to the hardworking many. For eight long years, our President sacrificed investments in health care, and education, and energy, and infrastructure [...]
Senator Kennedy Spokesman On Declining Job Numbers
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Anthony Coley, spokesman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, released the following statement concerning today’s jobs numbers, which showed a dramatic jump in the unemployment rate from 5.0 to 5.5 percent and an increase by 861,000 in the number of unemployed Americans (to a total of 8.5 million).
Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]
Wfu Provost Emeritus Honored
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David Brown, provost emeritus at Wake Forest University, was honored by computer maker Lenovo at ThinkTank 2008, an educational conference held at the campus Tuesday.
Lenovo, which is based in China and has executive offices in Morrisville and a distribution center in Whitsett, gave Brown its Education Lifetime Achievement award. The company cited Brown’s decade-long pursuit [...]
Transportation Group Calls For School Bus Safety Improvements
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A transportation group is accusing the state Education Department of not keeping its training programs for school-bus drivers up to date.
The state annually sets aside $400,000 for school-bus-driver safety training through the Education Department and a database of accidents. In 2007-08, more than $159,000 of the total was not spent, said Peter Mannella, executive director [...]
Long Term Economic Payoff Seen From Early Childhood Education
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The latest analysis of a long-running early-childhood-education program for children of low-income families in Chicago suggests economic payoffs from such services that continue well into adulthood.
“The biggest argument against the Chicago economic data is that it is still largely a ‘boutique’ program that cost more and provided more services than most current universal and preschool [...]
Cheap Education Loans Bear The Cost Of Your Education
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If you dare to touch the endless sky limit, pave your own way for it. There are several avenues though you hit upon to avail quality education for your prosperous future. However rising cost of education has given a reverse jerk. For the reason, an army of potential students remains devoid of further studies. Giving [...]
Board Of Education Revamps Student Testing
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Working off the suggestions of teachers and school officials, the State Board of Education Thursday approved a host of changes to the testing system used to measure students’ skills.
Houston served as the chairman of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability - Education Journal a special panel of educators, superintendents, principals and lawmakers charged [...]
