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Can Your Education Get You the Right Job?

Can Your Education Get You the Right Job?

The employment situation and education systems are equally bad in all parts of India. It is reflected in the country's worsening Human Development Index. By Rakesh Raman Today, there is a wide mismatch between the education being provided to students in India and the skills requirement in the contemporary job market.…
NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education

NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected nine universities for cooperative agreement awards totaling $3.6 million to create and operate a NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy. The universities will receive as much as $160,000 per year for two years and up to $100,000 for a third year. The…
Study Reveals School Children Have More Homework Load

Study Reveals School Children Have More Homework Load

Primary school children have a homework load 3X the amount recommended by the National Education Association (NEA), according to a new study by researchers from Brown University School of Medicine, Children's National Health System, Brandeis University, Rhode Island College, and the New England Center for Pediatric Psychology, with outreach provided…
Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker is a two-year program created by Verizon and launched this month at Kentucky State University with a $400,000 Verizon Foundation grant. The program seeks to empower a new generation of minority men by giving them lifelong technology and entrepreneurship skills to build future innovations and create brighter…
CEF Education Model to Produce Employable People

CEF Education Model to Produce Employable People

Constructive Education Framework (CEF) will work on the principle of “Learning for Earning” to meet the larger objective of building a prosperous society. By Rakesh Raman There is no denying the fact that institutional education in schools and colleges can help develop the personality of a child. However, a greater…
First Lady Michelle Obama Says Reach Higher

First Lady Michelle Obama Says Reach Higher

As part of her Reach Higher initiative, First Lady Michelle Obama will speak Friday at Detroit’s first-ever citywide College Signing Day, hosted by the Detroit College Access Network at Wayne State University. Over 1,500 students from more than 40 Detroit high schools will participate in the rally. In her keynote…
Raytheon to Help Children of Military Families

Raytheon to Help Children of Military Families

A new $5 million multi-year commitment from technology company Raytheon to Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) will provide enhanced technology centers and support for after-school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programming to children of military families. Working in partnership, Raytheon and Boys & Girls Clubs of America…