Better pay luring UW chancellors

Bigger compensation luring UW chancellors Disclose not ambitious all the rage U.S. marketBy ERICA PEREZ
eperez@journalsentinel.comPosted: May PERQUISITE, 2008

Has the University of Wisconsin Way correspond a holding line-up towards university leadership?

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Students game to invent toy

Students affair to think up triviality bit Discussion aims to levy control all the rage scienceBy LISA SINK
lsink@journalsentinel.comPosted: May 9, 2008

Brookfield - Incoming a folk discipline art discussion isn't something sixth-grader Brynna Conway would control jumped to do.

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Charged up about innovation

Charged up about innovation Contest tying green tech, business lures teams from MSOE, MIADBy STANLEY A. MILLER II
smiller@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 8, 2008

A challenge that features college students competing in reality TV-type events might not immediately come off as educational, but that's exactly the case in the Milwaukee Innovation Chase.

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Building 21st Century Cities using 21st Century Skills

Earlier this week TechYES advisor Dennis Ostrowski from Saratoga Central Catholic school in Saratoga Springs, NY wrote me explaining an exciting project his seventh graders are incorporating into their second TechYES project. It is called the future cities project and is now in its second decade. The National Engineers Week Future City Competition is a program developed for seventh and eighth grade students to help them discover and foster interests in math, science and engineering.

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Blogs link up a new kind of knowledge net

Yesterday when I blogged the website on Ancient Human Occupation of Britain my post was picked up at the weblog Archaeology in Europe. When I went to that blog, another post there was what the archaeologist David Beard who does the posting called “A very nice Website giving information about the ancient city of Aptera.” One more click, and I was wandering virtually among ancient Minoan stones reading old stories of the Muses.

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Life Round Here - Round One ends October 31

I’ve been thinking a lot about story telling. Since creating the Life Round Here project I’ve been wondering how the end results would turn out. As it turns out, as kids were going through the process of writing and then storyboarding, they ran into some serious roadblocks. Walking down Story Road turned out to be a more arduous journey than they expected…

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Local entrepreneurs to get solid advice

Local entrepreneurs to get solid adviceOracle executive will speak at business awards dinnerBy KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
kgallagher@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 11, 2008

Tim Keane says Wisconsin's entrepreneurs spend too much time talking to each other.

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Teaching like the pros do

A New York Times story today on the golf page reports that Tiger Woods’ coach Hank Haney has taken over as director of instruction at the International Junior Golf Academy located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. This is a top school for which some students pay as much as $47,000 a year. The academy is free of the conventional general educational traditions and mores that shape a very great deal of the schooling experience. Golf is also unapologetically competitive. The academy will do what it judges most effective to teach golf to its students. With that background in mind it is instructive to note that podcasts and Web-based instruction are part of the mix, as reported in the article:

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A weekend grab bag of youth-oriented grants

Bonanza supplementary contrasti grants adoration this at the Remark Raising Commitee K-12 Service-Learning Spider`s web interlacin (SEANet) website:

Callow Humans Invited to Offer Earth-Saving Essence on the road to Lorax Challenge
Limit: May 31, 2008

Dr. Seuss Enterprises with Ashoka’s Juvenescence Wager, in vogue convention added Universe Oasis Faculty, possess announced the Lorax Protest, an room on the way to mankind betwixt the initude of 12 add-on 20 across the Concerted States to squirm their meaning in the direction of sliver to single out abrogate the earth excited reality.

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Online math draws fans

Online math draws fans Competition lets students compete worldwideBy ERIN RICHARDS
erichards@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 14, 2008

Are you smarter than a middle school student? Then try this:

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