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The president says the economy is on sound footing. And, true enough, many states across the union are experiencing budget surpluses, and spent the summer debating increases to their education [...]

With her eldest daughter about to enter her senior year of high school at age 14, Carolyn Kottmeyer has experienced just about every aspect of gifted education American schools have [...]

There's lots of buzz about formative assessment these days; some analysts say this latest byproduct of No Child Left Behind comprises the fastest-growing segment of the education testing market. It's [...]

At Boston College, 'You Make It Happen.' Or, at Least that's the theme dominating the alumni fund's 2005 e-mail campaign, with each edition pairing an alumnus who has given a [...]

All the teachers in Cheltenham Township School District were clamoring for new desktop PCs, convinced that it was old, slow processors making their classroom computing crawl. But Gary Bixby, director [...]

An outbreak of norovirus resulted in some 60 vomiting students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Mass.) who were taken to the hospital in April. At the University of North Carolina, there [...]

TAKE THIS QUIZ: Which of the following issues is most Likely to describe your school's course management system? A) Continually escalating in cost B) Continual demand for upgrades and increased [...]

A New York Times headline warned last February 'Pupils Seem to Disappear In Shambles of Special Ed,' evoking the image of clusters of abandoned children drifting through a war-torn schoolyard. [...]

One way academics know they're breaking new ground with their research is by the number of speaking invitations they receive after publication. Another gauge might be the level of vitriol [...]

When Microsoft introduced its Tablet PCs two years ago, and promised a revolution in education technology, expectations were high. But revolutions aren't spontaneous, and two years later K-12 adoption of [...]

'On a tot of campuses, purchasing is the whipping boy,' says Victoria Windley, director of Procurement Services at University of Delaware. 'But not here.' And with good reason. The school [...]

Like an Olympic athlete training for games still three years away, Cathy Anderegg is focused. But she's not eyeing a gold medal. Rather, she'll log thousands of work horn's with [...]

After two on-campus shootings within two weeks in 2001. it was quite clear that Grossmont Union School District near San Diego had to dramatically improve its security infrastructure. As the [...]

When a third grader's mom called frantically searching for her son who was late coming home from school, Eastlawn Elementary School Principal Jeff Lauer was out of the building at [...]

Community college students in Seattle are angry and confused, and it's officials at the University of Washington's Seattle campus that are the target of their ire. The success of the [...]

Ramps, rolling tires, stop watches and lots of error-prone calculations used to be the mainstays of teaching physics to students at the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences in Armada, [...]

At Central Washington University, the amount of financial aid given to students was up by more than 50 percent in 2002 (over 1995)--from $39 million to $60 million. At the [...]

Bob Hassmiller, executive director of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services (www.nacas.org), tells a story that crystallizes what's going on in auxiliary services these days. It centers on the [...]

The 'Great White' fire in Rhode Island earlier this year was a horror--killing nearly 100 people when rock fans were trapped inside a burning building with too few fire exits. [...]

It's common knowledge that there have been flops in the virtual university market--both for-profit ventures and not-for-profits that invested millions only to pull the plug after a year or two. [...]

When parents of students at New Egypt Elementary School in Plumsted Township, N.J., need to pick up their child for a doctor's appointment during the school day, many pause at [...]

Mary Cullinane, who manages the K-12 computing segment at Microsoft, has a somewhat absurd analogy regarding the use of computer labs in K-12 education. 'Imagine saying to your students, 'Okay, [...]

Successfully engineering change in a corporation is a process that only the most visionary CEOs can accomplish. Transforming an academic institution may be even harder. 'I cannot think of a [...]

Tchaikovsky probably wouldn't known what to make of the scene in the auditorium of the Libby Center in Spokane, Wash., this March. Home to Spokane Public Schools' Odyssey gifted magnet [...]

The presidential vote-counting debacle of 2000 was the first in a spate of recent national events that put the spotlight on understanding our democracy, Constitution and lawmaking. After the election [...]

Less than a month before school was due to start this year, Edward Mackniak, assistant superintendent of personnel and administration in Hamden, Conn., still had to find four high school [...]

Chances are you've never heard of Knowledge Dynamics, Hydroglobe, or AnthroTronix, but one day, their products may improve life for us all. These, and hundreds of successful products and companies--the [...]

The average public school in America is 42 years old. More than a quarter are over 50 years old, leading the National Education Association to estimate that it will take [...]

The sticker price on one year of undergraduate education at the elite, private Williams College in Massachusetts is $33,000--a fire-sale bargain considering what it actually costs the school to educate [...]

Web infrastructure has become a many-tentacled monster on campus, and the feed and upkeep of this once-quaint pet has taken over budgets, departments, and agendas across the university. But there's [...]

Administering the Texas Primary Reading Inventory to her 80 kindergartners twice each year was a time-consuming chore, admits teacher Kristi Bush of Norton Elementary in Mien, Texas. It involved reams [...]

Anticipated benefits aside, headaches created by the reporting requirements of No Child Left Behind can't be understimated, especially when it comes to wrangling the necessary data from an old or [...]

Anaheim Union High School District had 1,200 classrooms to renovate, 200 new to build, and nearly $300 million to do it. Building classrooms that would house the evolution of education [...]

If science teachers at 10 newly created Bronx, N.Y., high schools want to demonstrate the inner workings of amphibians this spring, they won't be held back because their schools don't [...]

Seeing a teacher who's comfortable using a multimedia projector and all the associated hardware and software is like watching a master chef whip up a spectacular meal--amazing to watch, but [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner Why is Beth Mooney the only female CEO of a top 50 bank in the U.S.? And what is your institution doing to help remedy the gender [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner News from RSA executive chairman Art Coviello that the company's corporate security was breached, and its SecurID one-time-password product compromised, is a bit like hearing that the [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner Banks' security for online accounts hasn't kept pace with the threat landscape, regulators say, and sources say the FFIEC may soon update its 1995 guidance on securing [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner The new year is likely to bring more of the same when it comes tocriminals siphoning funds from consumers and banks. 'I'm not seeing too much innovation,' [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner Elizabeth Warren wants your data, and if you're counting on cover in the fact that Republicans will take over the House in January, or that the Consumer [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner There are a couple of major drawbacks to most mobile peer-to-peer payment systems in the market, including the delay between the time the sender initiates a payment [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner Middleware isn't typically exciting, but in the case of Socialware, this company's middle-man platform allows financials to robustly engage in social media while not violating any of [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner The next generation of Amazon-style product recommendation tools comes from Baynote, which makes recommendations in real-time based on not on past-purchase behavior or user profiles but on [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner There seemed to be no question at BAI's Retail Delivery show in Las Vegas (Oct. 19-21) that bankers are still not sleeping soundly at night. Who can [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner There seems to be a fairly radical disconnect when it comes to attitudes about the near future of branch banking. Analysts say banks need to start investing [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner Turning customers on to online banking is a high-priority goal because of the loyalty it engenders, but recent developments in the paperless statement arena have consumers bypassing [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner In a ruling likely to displease many in the financial services industry, the viability of business-process patents was upheld in Monday's long-awaited U.S. Supreme Court ruling in [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sausner U.S. Bancorp executives provided details about their mobile banking strategy, including plans to roll out person-to-person transfer and remote check-capture services this year. Dominic Venturo, the Minneapolis [...]

Byline: John Adams, Robin Arnfield, Stewart Deck, John Dodge, Andrew Johnson, Rebecca Sausner, Michael Sisk and Daniel Wolfe Sometimes innovation emerges from unexpected places. How about the folks in a [...]