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The National Education Foundation (NEF) has launched a multi-million dollar grant program to improve STEM education in the nation’s K-12 schools. This program is an innovative way to provide 21st century skills to America's school students. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 An uneasy result of the sequestration is the fact that the U.S. Department of Education would see cuts of $2.5 billion, but because all K-12 programs have been budgeted for the current year are funded for the...
The American education system in the last decades, due to budget dollars has eliminated several programs. In light of this, the National Education Foundation (NEF) launched a multi-million dollar grant program. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) March 02, 2013 The American education system in the last decades, due to budget dollars has eliminated several programs. The list of programs includes extracurricular activities, the arts and music programs and physical education departments. With the...
GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Paulo Oemig of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., was chosen as one of 20 outstanding educators by the Space Foundation for its 2013 Teacher Liaisons. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Paulo Oemig is an Albert Einstein distinguished educator fellow with NASA's STEM Education program in Goddard's Office of Education. The Einstein Educator Fellowship Program, signed into law by...
NEF's Adopt-a-School initiative, that will provide 100 grants annually starting in 2013, with at least one in each state addresses President Obama's initiative to create effective partnerships among schools, universities and businesses. (PRWEB) February 17, 2013 In the State of the Union Address on Tuesday (Feb. 12, 2013) President Obama announced a national initiative to promote effective partnerships among schools, universities and businesses. NEF has created a program, the...
NEF plans to provide 100 grants annually starting in 2013, with at least one in each state. One of the first recipients of the 2013 award is Northwest Middle School (KS). (PRWEB) February 16, 2013 NEF plans to provide 100 grants annually starting in 2013, with at least one in each state. The national initiative creates effective partnerships among schools, universities and businesses just as President Obama stated in the State of the Union address Tuesday. The National Education...
The National Education Foundation (NEF), the national leader in bridging the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) divides in the nation’s schools, has launched a multi-million dollar grant program to improve STEM education in K-12 schools. The first two award recipients are Northwest Middle School in Kansas City and Williamsburg County school district in South Carolina. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) February 15, 2013 The National Education Foundation (NEF), the national leader in...
Free, hands-on training helps science educators integrate data-collection technology into their science curriculum BEAVERTON, Ore., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Starting this February, Vernier Software & Technology will host more than 30 free, hands-on workshops to help science and STEM educators integrate data-collection technology into their science curriculum. During each four-hour workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to...
NEF has created an innovative program, ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PROGRAM, in partnership with the State University of New York (SUNY) that is a great way to bridge the gap between businesses and non-profits. This private-public partnership creates a working relationship that can bring about a social change, specifically provide STEM education resources to disadvantaged schools. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) January 03, 2013 The National Education Foundation in its efforts to provide STEM Academies has...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Only one out of every five honors-level physics students at UK high schools are women, and only 17-percent of female students apply for undergraduate-level programs in the field at universities, the Institute of Physics (IOP) discovered in a recent study. Using information provided by the National Pupil Database (NPD), IOP officials also discovered that nearly half of all state co-ed schools in England did not have any girls...
Third annual event set for April 18 -28, 2013 with more than 100 thought-provoking events The Dow Chemical Company returns for the third year as presenting sponsor of the Festival PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Philadelphia Science Festival organizers have questions - lots of questions. So as they announce dates for the third annual event and more than 100 programs in April 2013, they decided to explore potential answers. After all, they're not the only ones...
