Who Will Fill These Shoes
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A new state report highlights 24 ideas for keeping young people in North Dakota, attracting workers and connecting education to employers.
However, the report’s findings are among the discussion items for Tuesday’s joint meeting in Bismarck of the Workforce, Higher Education and Education interim legislative committees.
Eight and 100. Graduates of North Dakota University System schools who [...]
Ymci Wants Media Education In Schools
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As the world marks the African Child today, Youth Media and Communication Initiative, (YMCI) an international organisation dedicated to children and media has called for the introduction of media education into the school curriculum in Nigeria as a way of giving voice to children. In a statement to mark the Day of the African Child, [...]
Is A ‘nuanced’ Approach To Teen Sex Education Possible
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Whether they see their virginity as a gift or a stigma to get rid of the first chance they get, today’s teens are desperate to learn about pleasure in “healthy” relationships, which means traditional sex education that beats the safe sex drum is no longer speaking to them, if it ever did.
It is this group [...]
Moses Cone Proposes Cancer Center Expansion
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Moses Cone Health System has applied with state regulators to expand the Regional Cancer Center at Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro.
The center provides chemotherapy, radiation therapy, nutritional services and community education. The proposed $15 million expansion calls for a 20,000 square foot, two-story addition.
The additional space will allow for renovation of 18,000 square feet and [...]
Ac Student Receives Prestigious Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award
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As a wife, mother of three and grandmother of four, Deneice Marshall figured she’d long passed any need to bother with enrolling in college. After all, she’d already established herself both in life and in her career.
But when her employer approached her and explained some of the numerous opportunities that could unfold by furthering her [...]
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 [...]
Do We Really Need School Boards
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TROUBLE WAS predictable when, three years into their jobs, members of the Strait regional school board were ordered to write their own directive on ethics, responsibilities and how to behave with common courtesy.
Are these the folks we want running the system that teaches our children?
Over the weekend, Education Minister Karen Casey decided the answer to [...]
Local School Leaders Optimistic As Education Budget Passes Senate
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The state education budget passed out of the Alabama Senate Thursday, and local school leaders say they are now more optimistic about the upcoming year.
The budget still must make it pass the House of Representatives and Gov. Bob Riley, and Bazzell said not having the budget already has had an impact on Pike County Schools. [...]
