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A cycloid is the curve traced by a point on the rim of a circular wheel as the wheel rolls along a straight line without slippage. It is an example of a roulette, a curve generated by a curve rolling on another curve.
The inverted cycloid (a cycloid rotated through 180°) is the solution to the brachistochrone problem (... | 23 |
A number to the power of negative one is equal to one over that number. For example, five to the negative one power equals one over five, or 1/5.Know More
The negative exponent rule says that when doing calculations with negative exponents, any negative exponents in the top half of a fraction get moved to the bottom ha... | 23 |
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In mathematics, the remainder is the amount "left over" after performing some computation. In arithmetic, the remainder is the integer "left over" after dividing one integer by another to produce an integer quotient (integer division). In algebra, the remainder is the polynomial "left over" after dividin... | 23 |
In number theory, the law of quadratic reciprocity is a theorem about modular arithmetic that gives conditions for the solvability of quadratic equations modulo prime numbers. There are a number of equivalent statements of the theorem. One version of the law states that
for p and q odd prime numbers, and denoting the L... | 23 |
The numbers at the vertices add up to the numbers
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Mixed fractions are numbers made up of a whole number and a fraction, such as 2 1/2. In order to divide them, they must be converted into improper fractions first. Here's how to do it.
Part 1 of 3: Converting Mixed Fractions to Improper Fractions
1Multiply each whole number by the denominator of the fraction. So, let's... | 23 |
Date: 12/15/2000 at 14:14:40 From: Joel Dick Subject: Prime Numbers How can I prove that if A = (P1P2+1)^2-1 where P1 and P2 are two distinct primes, then A is a multiple of four distinct primes?
Date: 12/15/2000 at 17:51:06 From: Doctor Roy Subject: Re: Prime Numbers Hello, I am not sure that you can prove this. Consi... | 23 |
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A square piece of paper with integer dimensions N×N is placed with a corner at the origin and two of its sides along the x- and y-axes. Then, we cut it up respecting the following rules:
- We only make straight cuts between two points lying o... | 23 |
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many
different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back
Swap the stars with the moons, using only knights' moves (as on a
chess board). What is the smallest number of moves possible?
You have 4 red and 5 blue counters. How many ways can they be... | 23 |
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There are various different perspectives on the notion of topos.
One is that a topos is a category that looks like a category of spaces that sit by local homeomorphisms over a given base space: all spaces that are locally modeled on a given base space.
What makes the notion of ... | 23 |
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Persevere in solving problems? Want to see if your kids really know what they are doing when they are problem solving? Want to focus your kids into the process of problem solving? This simple one page problem solver includes a place for students to choose their strategy, to choose their math concep... | 23 |
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The pyrochoron, also known as the pentachoron and the 5-cell, is the four-dimensional simplex, and has the lowest possible element count of any flat, non-degenerate four-dimensional shape. It consists of 5 regular tetrahedra joined at their faces, folded into 4D to form ... | 23 |
Mark and Fred had some money in the ratio 6:1. Mark gave half of his money to Fred. Find the ratio of the amount of money Mark had left to the amount of money Fred had in the end.
The ratio of the amount of money Mark had left to the amount of money Fred had in the end is 3:4.
Carol puts some green and red unit cubes i... | 23 |
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The percent sign (%) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. Related signs include the permille (per thousand) sign ‰ and the permyriad (per ten thousand) sign ‱ (also known as a basis point), which indicate that a number is divided by one thousand or ten thousand respective... | 23 |
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Can you find different ways of showing the same number? Try this matching game and see!
Read this riddle and see if you can work out how the trees must be planted.
This article looks at how models support mathematical thinking about numbers and the number system
Dotty Six is a simple dice game that you can adapt in man... | 23 |
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Direct Variation - Problem 1
MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Are... | 23 |
How many degree in 1 radian?
The answer is 57.2957795131.
We assume you are converting between degree and radian.
You can view more details on each measurement unit:
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The SI derived unit for angle is the radian.
1 degree is equal to 0.0174532925199 radian.
Note that rounding errors may occur, so always ... | 23 |
Our telescopes show the Milky Way galaxy only as it appears from one vantage point: our solar system. B using a simple but powerful technique, astronomers have seen an exploding star or supernova from new several angles.
The supernova left behind the gaseous remnant Cassiopeia A. The supernova's light washed over the E... | 24 |
Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
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The accidental discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation is a major development in modern physical cosmology. Although predicted by earlier theories, it was first found accidentally by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson as they experi... | 24 |
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Amateur question; Are the planets in our solar system moving along the same plane? if so, why? (se... | 24 |
Saturn's moon Titan had swamps, say astroboffins
Splashdown patterns suggest space rocks landed in something squishy
Titan, the moon of Saturn often present at the top of candidate lists for life-bearing bodies in our near neighbourhood, may once have housed extensive swamps.
So say boffins from the Florida Institute o... | 24 |
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"Discovery of dark matter's behavior would solve many outstanding mysteries in physics...Dark matter makes up five times more of the universe's mass than visible matter (~25% vs ~5%), yet scientists have yet to d... | 24 |
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Saturn sits nested in its rings of ice as Cassini once again plunges toward the graceful giant.
This natural color mosaic was acquired by the Cassini spacecraft as it soared 39 degrees above the unilluminated side of the rings.
Little light makes its way thr... | 24 |
Is this not a Nebula forming into a solar system in a few billion years or less.
Bearing slight resemblance to a diamond ring, this image shows the planetary nebula Fleming 1 in the constellation Centaurus, (The Centaur). Observations suggest that a very rare pair of white dwarf stars lies at the heart of this object, ... | 24 |
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Research by Professor of Physics and Astronomy Keivan Stassun and postdoctoral scholar Saurav Dhital has contributed to a new theory about the formation of wide binary star systems.
Stassun explores the research in a “News and Views” column in the current issue of Nature.
Most binary stars—two stars tha... | 24 |
A runner makes his way along a trail in front of the "super Moon" in Phoenix, Arizona.
Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be an alien planet that just might be capable of supporting human life. Sounds like a sci-fi movie right?
The new found "Super-Earth" planet has been called 40307g and is located just ... | 24 |
Equatorial Ridge of Iapetus
The distinctive ridge around Saturn’s moon Iapetus bears an eerie similarity to equatorial ridges around concretions on Earth. In electrical terms, the similarity could be more than coincidence.
Traditional thinking in the sciences would not recognize a significant pattern above, though the ... | 24 |
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Survivor of stellar collision is new type of pulsating star
26 June 2013
A team of astronomers from the UK, Germany and Spain have observed the remnant of a stellar collision and discovered that its brightness varies in a way not seen before on this rare type of star. By analysing the patterns ... | 24 |
A huge arrow-shaped storm blows across the equatorial region of Titan in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, chronicling the seasonal weather changes on Saturn's largest moon.
This storm created large effects in the form of dark -- likely wet -- areas on the surface of the moon, visible in later images. After th... | 24 |
This name need not be explained. Albert Einstein is considered to be one of the best physicists in the human history.
The twentieth century has undoubtedly been the most significant for the advance of science, in general, and Physics, in particular. And Einstein is the most luminated star of the 20th century. He litera... | 24 |
The Dark Energy Camera, a 570-megapixel camera mounted on a telescope in Chile, achieved first light on Sept. 12.
Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energ... | 24 |
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including Oxford University scientists, has discovered six diverse new planets, from 'shrunken-Saturns' to 'bloated hot Jupiters', as well a rare brown dwarf with 60 times the mass of Jupiter.
The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) space telescope is operated by the French... | 24 |
Saturn's Phoebe 'most like Pluto'
Origins of rocky moon revealed
The latest data sent back from the Cassini spacecraft, along with previously-gathered results, have confirmed that the mysterious moon, Phoebe, is a remnant from the early days of our solar system.
Astronomers suspected Phoebe was a captured moon, and now... | 24 |
Hubble Space Telescope Media Kit
Pillars of Creation, 2014. NASA, ESA, STScI, Hester/Scowen (ASU)
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The Hubble Space Telescope, operating with five instruments built by Ball Aerospace, continues to reveal hidden secrets of the universe and deliver astounding images of distant stars and galaxies.
During the fi... | 24 |
This is the third in a series on Women in Astronomy. Today, we meet Caroline Herschel.
Caroline Herschel was born in Hanover, Germany in 1750. Her early life was a conflict between her father, who wanted her to be educated in music and science, and her mother, who thought that household chores were the appropriate life... | 24 |
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WASHINGTON, March 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal
The presence of massive dunes, some over a mile wide and hundreds of yards high, on Saturn’s moo... | 24 |
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984:873 - 90... | 24 |
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The black hole above was discovered in the M62 star cluster, which is 23,000 light years away from Earth. These star clusters contain some of the oldest stars in the galaxy. (click to enlarge)
A Texas Tech University astrophysicist was part of a team of researchers that discovered the first examples of... | 24 |
Heavenly Sleuths Solve the Mystery: It's a Quasar
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: August 31, 1999
Astronomers think they have solved the mystery of the strange object that has confounded them ever since its discovery three years ago.
It is not any kind of star or galaxy. Nor is it some entirely new celestial phenomeno... | 24 |
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- It is sometimes used, incorrectly, to mean sample variance - the difference between different finite samples of the same parent population. Such differences follow a Poissonian distribution, and in this case the term sample variance should be used instead.
- It is sometimes used, mainly by cosmo... | 24 |
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Australian-based astronomy team, co-led by Professor Michael Drinkwater from the School of Mathematics and Physics (SMP) at The University of Queensland (UQ), has shown that the mysterious 'dark energy' is indeed real and not a mistake in Einstein's theory of gravity.
Using the Anglo-Australian Tele... | 24 |
Latest Exploration of Saturn Stories
NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's moon Titan. This renewed weather activity, considered overdue by researchers, could finally signal the onset of summer storms that atmospheric models have long predic... | 24 |
Compare the Planets
Comparing the physical characteristics of the worlds in our solar system (and beyond)
The worlds of our solar system come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Red-eyed Jupiter, ringed Saturn, and frigid Uranus and Neptune are giant gassy globes containing nearly all of the matter in the solar system. T... | 24 |
The Cat's Eye Nebula, NGC 6543, located in the constellation of Draco, is seen in this undated image. X-ray: NASA/UIUC/Y.Chu et al., Optical: NASA/HST
Astronaut Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and NASA ISS science officer, watches a water bubble float between him and the camera, showing his image refracted, on the... | 24 |
Astronomers suggest more accurate star formation ratesApril 10th, 2014 in Astronomy & Space / Astronomy
Cosmic nurseries: Jouni Kainulainen and his colleagues studied The Pipe Nebula (left) and the Rho Ophiuchi cloud (right) in the Milky Way. In the background, an ordinary image of the Milky Way; each inset map shows t... | 24 |
Australia has hailed a surprise decision giving it a role in a radio telescope project aimed at revolutionising astronomy, vowing to draw on its decades of experience in space science.
Australia and South Africa were named joint winners of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project following a meeting of the organisation... | 24 |
Space telescopes reveal previously unknown brilliant X-ray explosion in our Milky Way galaxyOctober 22nd, 2010 in Astronomy & Space / Astronomy
This is an artist's rendering of the Swift spacecraft with a gamma-ray burst going off in the background. Credit: Spectrum Astro
Astronomers in Japan, using an X-ray detector o... | 24 |
The European union has selected the Finnish Meteorological Institute to lead an international space effort whose goal is to build the largest and fastest man-made device.
The electric sail is a Finnish invention which uses the solar wind as its thrust source and therefore needs no fuel or propellant. The solar wind is ... | 25 |
New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's orbit.
Based on data through April 7, 2013, the latest orbital plot places the comet's closest approach to Mars slightly closer than previou... | 25 |
New research describes a fast-moving sand dune in Tunisia that is spilling onto the streets of the Star Wars set used to portray Anakin Skywalker's childhood home.
BYU professor Jani Radebaugh visited Mos Espa in 2009 and observed a nearby dune measuring 20 feet tall and 300 feet wide. Mos Espa is notable in the film f... | 25 |
To protect the Earth from a devastating collision with a large asteroid, one scientist says the best solution would be to nuke it.
Bong Wie, director of the Asteroid Deflection Research Center at Iowa State University, said his team is developing a plan in which a spacecraft would take a nuclear warhead to an asteroid ... | 25 |
FAIRBANKS (AP) -- When Barbara Parker's high school students first heard about lichens, they weren't impressed.
Soon, however, they became experts and created a science experiment so good it was chosen to go into space aboard a NASA shuttle.
Parker, a science teacher at the Delta Cyber Charter School, found the nationa... | 25 |
Washington: ESA is building a prototype tester for crews on the International Space Station to provide diagnoses within a few minutes from a pinprick of blood.
The ultimate device will offer rapid health checks and results for scientific research.
The droplet is placed on a portable device built around a disc like a mi... | 25 |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An asteroid with an estimated girth as large as a garbage truck soared within 7,500 miles of the Earth on Monday as it passed harmlessly over the Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The space rock, measuring 5 to 20 meters in diameter, followed the same near-Earth path... | 25 |
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team said Friday it has completed its preliminary design review as part of the mission confirmation process.
The first in a series of robotic missions to the moon, the LRO is scheduled for launch in October 2008. It will carry six science instruments and a technology demonstration.
T... | 25 |
NASA's plan for the private sector to build spacecraft to fly astronauts to the International Space Station is a high-risk undertaking that won't show results for years, experts said.
The abrupt shift "harnesses our nation's entrepreneurial energies, and will create thousands of new jobs," the White House Office of Sci... | 25 |
Satellites Sent by India
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India have sent totally 16 satellites to the space successfully till now.
Satellites are playing a vital role in the technical side of the world. One country can use the satellite launching for the development of the country to the peak level or to demolish the other country ... | 25 |
NASA says that a regional Martian dust storm could impact the space agency’s Mars rovers, Opportunity and Curiosity.
While NASA is interested in tracking this storm for scientific purposes, the space agency is also worried about the storm’s potential impacts on the daily operations of its rovers.
However, NASA says tha... | 25 |
The European Space Agency announced Tuesday its support of a program that will include development of an instrument for testing deep soil samples on Mars.
The testing, to be conducted during a European mission called ExoMars, will be directed by University of California-Santa Barbara research scientist Luann Becker.
"W... | 25 |
Mars probably never wet enough for life, nuclear bomb crater indicates
Spoilsport boffins: Theorised aliens have feet of clay
Spoilsport French scientists probing unusual clay deposits discovered in an old nuclear bomb crater say they have found that the planet Mars has never been - as previous researchers have hoped/s... | 25 |
South Africa unveiled its national space agency on Thursday, aiming to become a leader in earth observation technology across the continent in 10 years, the minister of science and technology said.
"Our combined efforts at enhancing South Africas space capabilities will be of immense value to the scientific community i... | 25 |
Space Shuttle abort modes
Space Shuttle abort modes were procedures by which the nominal launch of the NASA Space Shuttle could be terminated. A pad abort occurred after ignition of the shuttle's main engines but prior liftoff. An abort during ascent that would result in the orbiter returning to a runway or to a lower ... | 25 |
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, Maimonides, also known by the acronym Rambam, lived over eight hundred years ago (1138-1204 CE). He never saw the planet Earth as Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders did on December 24, 1968, when Anders took the now iconic Earthrise photograph while flying...
Just released ADL audit shows signifi... | 25 |
Ancient Walls Discovered On Mars In NASA Photo, June 2014, UFO Sighting News.
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Latest Asteroid Stories
An asteroid about the size of a football stadium may slightly have a chance of impacting Earth in 2040, but new estimates show it's hardly a threat.
After successfully completing nearly five months scrutinizing the giant asteroid Vesta at its lowest orbit altitude, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will be... | 25 |
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Eratosthenes is a relatively deep lunar impact crater that lies on the boundary between the Mare Imbrium and Sinus Aestuum mare regions. It forms the western terminus of the Montes Apenninus mountain range. The crater has a well-defined circular rim, terraced inner wall, central mountain p... | 25 |
One therapeutic dose of radiation causes 30 percent spongy bone loss in mice
Bethesda, MD. (July 12, 2006) – Mice receiving just one therapeutic dose of radiation lost up to 39% of the spongy portion of their inner bone, reducing the inner bone's weight bearing connections by up to 64%, researchers reported. The study,... | 25 |
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Fifty years ago, the skies above has got a little more crowded. The Soviet Union launched a shiny sphere about the size of a basketball into outer space. Radio Moscow made an announcement that stunned the world.
(Soundbite of archived Radio Moscow reporting)
Unidentified Man #1: The first artificial ... | 25 |
NASA’s Stardust-Next spacecraft flew past Comet Tempel 1 at 8:38 Pacific time Monday night, snapping photos as it sped by.
In 2005, the Deep Impact probe blew a crater into Tempel 1 with an 800-pound metal slug. Since then, Tempel 1 has completed an orbit around the sun, losing ice and other material to the sun’s hot g... | 25 |
A few years ago, NASA contemplated a daunting dilemma. If an astronaut went on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to fix some equipment and was somehow injured in the process, how would he or she be checked out for possible broken bones? It was impractical to put a big, bulky X-ray machine or an MRI or... | 25 |
RICHMOND, Ky. -- Eastern Kentucky University has acquired a 33-pound meteorite from an eastern Tennessee family that used the space rock as a doorstop and flower bed ornament over the years.
The meteorite was initially found in a cow pasture near Tazewell, Tenn., in the 1930s by Tilmon Brooks, the late grandfather of D... | 25 |
A Higher Education: Satellite Startup Aims to Inspire Students Through Experiments in Space
A Salt Lake City startup is allowing K-12 students to conduct their own experiments in space by offering remote control access to satellites in orbit.
Ardusat says that several dozen schools have already signed up to take advant... | 25 |
Latest New Millennium Program Stories
A stunning array of images of our home planet, taken by Earth-observing science satellites, are featured in a new NASA publication. The book, "Earth as Art," is available in hardcover, electronically, and as a free iPad application.
NASA's Space Technology Program is seeking propos... | 25 |
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity flexed its long robotic arm for the first time on the Red Planet Monday, passing a critical health check with flying colors, mission managers say.
The rover unfolded the robotic arm and performed an intricate series of test maneuvers to make sure the 7-foot-long appendage is in good working ... | 25 |
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After reading this book I can understand why there should be a strong emphasis for the manned exploration of Mars and why Mars should be the focus of our attention. By comparison manned exploration of the moon is really not that important. The moon does not have... | 25 |
Latest Unmanned spacecraft Stories
They are the darkest and coldest places on the surface of the moon, but deep in the craters of the polar regions, electrical activity may be creating a kind of “sparking” that has driven changes in lunar soil evolution.
Evaluation of a pale, flat Martian rock as the potential next dri... | 25 |
SOVIETS TO LAUNCH SHUTTLE SATURDAY
Published: October 27, 1988
MOSCOW, Oct. 26— The Soviet Union said today that it would launch its first space shuttle on an unmanned mission Saturday, after months of delays similar to those that plagued the maiden voyage of the United States' re-usable spacecraft.
A government commis... | 25 |
Today, the world has become very competitive and diverse, thanks to many cutting edge technological inventions, which keep on happening now and then. It has helped to advance each and every sector and industry including the educational arena. It helps the students to exchange ideas and information across and get an edg... | 26 |
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Over the period 2008-2011, at the primary, secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary levels of education, expenditure per student in Norway – combining private and public spending – increased slightly while the number of students remained stable.
This report draws upon valuable insights provided by ... | 26 |
Wal-Mart has been criticized by labor advocates for it’s low compensation rates. But, starting in April, hundreds of thousands of Wal-Mart employees will receive a pay raise – $1.25 higher than the federal minimum wage. Wal-Mart announced that its employees will earn $9 an hour rather than the lower $7.25, and will go ... | 26 |
By: Olena Panova and Dr. Rod Erakovich
Research in online education has rarely addressed the issue of quality. It often seems that economic interests are prioritized over educational interests, and so educational products are developed with little regard to quality. A literature review and discussions with instructors ... | 26 |
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Anna Chan of Dallas was a single mom, worked full time and struggling to put herself though college. The cost of higher education put a strain on her already tight budget. To make things work financially, she decided to rent an apartment in a low-income area. It meant Chan's 5-year-old son, J... | 26 |
Rules Mandate Uniform Graduation Rates
Spellings issues NCLB regulations with pieces from legislative agenda.
The Bush administration put its final stamp on the No Child Left Behind Act last week, leaving the next president’s team the task of enforcing a wide-ranging set of new regulations governing the law.
The rules ... | 26 |
In the first presidential debate of the general election cycle, the candidates' discussion of the American education system was a welcome departure from the usual haggling over the best way to get the economy moving again. In reality, addressing the rising cost of a college education in America is one of the ways we ca... | 26 |
PISA's just-published report, The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour, Confidence, gives a much-needed update on the status of gender in education today. Francesca Borgonovi (PISA Analyst) and Marilyn Achiron (Education Editor) compiled and wrote the PISA findings. To discuss the report further, I ... | 26 |
EFA Global Monitoring Report
The Education for All Global Monitoring Report is the prime instrument to assess global progress towards achieving the six 'Dakar' EFA goals. It tracks progress, identifies effective policy reforms and best practice in all areas relating to EFA, draws attention to emerging challenges and se... | 26 |
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Written Communication VALUE Rubric
The VALUE rubrics were developed by teams of faculty experts representing colleges and universities across the United States through a process that examined many existing campus rubrics and related documents for each learning outcome and incorporated additi... | 26 |
Proceed with Caution: Using Standardized Test Scores in High-Stakes Decisions
New York state education officials recently learned that their standardized assessments were not properly measuring student proficiency. They recalibrated the way the tests were graded and, not surprisingly, the new (theoretically more accura... | 26 |
School choice in Alabama
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Regional accreditation is educational accreditation of schools, colleges, and universities in the United States by one of the six regional accreditors. Each regional accreditor encompasses the vast majority of public, and not-for-profit and for-profit private educational institutions in its region. They accredit and in... | 26 |
Where do I go and what should I do? Routes through further education
This paper investigates the educational attainment of young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen after having entered full-time post-compulsory education. In particular we focus on the educational attainment and labour market trajectory of ... | 26 |
Northwestern professors publish research on using cell phones in the classroom
Kate Martin | December 10, 2013
Professors find student-captured videos are valuable learning tools.
Cell phone use in the classroom is generally considered a no-no. However, two Northwestern Health Sciences University professors studied how... | 26 |
Photo caption: Tweeting resources for a writing class.
After the initial thrill of creating an account, or the rush of seeing your follower count tick upward, social media can lose its excitement. As a result, in many libraries, especially when seemingly more pressing demands or staffing shortages arise, social media b... | 26 |
5 Effective Ways Teachers Can Use Twitter for Professional Development. June 10, 2014 What has started as a simple answer to the question "what are you doing?
" has now developed into one of the most popular online social networking platforms with 255 million Average Monthly Active Users (MAUs) as of March 31, 2014 . T... | 26 |
It’s back-to-school time once again. Whether it is smartphones, tablets or laptops –devices and the classroom are more intertwined than ever before. Thanks to the growing connections in the Internet of Everything (IoE), it is now easier than ever to integrate the device into the classroom. With college costs on the ris... | 26 |
By Katrina Schwartz
As more schools start to integrate their own mobile learning strategies and Bring Your Own Device policies, one school district in a suburb of Houston has managed to come up with what appears to be a successful BYOD program.
Katy Independent School District (ISD) has a student population of 63,000 s... | 26 |
Education Featured Article
September 20, 2012
Imagine K12 Imagines Better Education through Technology
By Rich Steeves, TMCnet Web Editor
In a classic Isaac Asimov story, “The Fun They Had,” children of the future are educated in their homes by computerized instructors. But many educators in the present are divided ove... | 26 |
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