Mayor Adams will announce Friday that he’s cancelling plans to cut funding for local community schools and the city’s popular student summer program, Summer Rising, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Spokespeople for the mayor did not immediately return a request for comment ahead of a noon event […]
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The Polk County School District hopes to reduce COVID learning gaps through a $4.75 million contract with Varsity Tutors for online tutoring and lessons, which will have the potential to reach nearly 40,000 students districtwide. Superintendent Frederick Heid told the School Board at its regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 13 […]
This inaugural pilot came together quite quickly thanks to the connections of the professors with colleagues at other institutions. Nicholas Kitchen, a faculty member at the New England Conservatory (NEC), was a primary contact and enthusiastically worked with Ku and Stinson to build the itinerary for the Fall Break visit […]
Scholar exchange and study abroad programs are centered on the view that leaving your comfort zone and encountering new perspectives are essential to intellectual and interpersonal growth. Students in the Sawiris Penn Scholars Exchange Program gather in front of Penn’s LOVE statue on College Green. Pictured left to right: Farah […]
Friday, December 9, 2022 Purdue University recently hit a major milestone in its efforts to make a world-class online education accessible to students around the globe. During the 2021-2022 school year, Purdue celebrated eclipsing the mark of awarding 1,000 degrees and over 200 graduate certificates to online students. Contributing to […]
Boise resident Shannon Orr and her three children are exactly the type of people the Idaho Legislature intended to help through the Empowering Parents Grant Program. She has been homeschooling her children for nearly three years, her family’s income is below $60,000 and she needed more educational materials for her […]
Students living an ocean apart came together for the first time since 2019 when the French exchange program returned to Fort Kent Community High School after being halted by the pandemic. FORT KENT, Maine – Students living an ocean apart came together for the first time since 2019 when the […]
Applications for the U of M’s student exchange program are set to open on Dec. 1. Until Jan. 31, 2023, students will have the opportunity to apply for the student exchange program taking place in the summer and fall terms of 2023, as well as the winter and summer terms […]
PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) -The University of Southern Mississippi not only attracts locals but also people from far and wide. “There was an opportunity that arose to get a level education, and I took that opportunity and ran with it,” said Ka’lon Duncanson. Many are familiar with the main campus […]
Grambling State University has signed a student exchange agreement with Management College of National Defense University, a military academy located in Bade District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Republic of China, to establish an ROTC Student Exchange Program. The agreement is to have each institution send one or two students to either […]
