Posted by Laverne
Education
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Performance strategist Tony Robbins will be at the University of Alabama in Huntsville today to help unveil a multimedia classroom teaching system. The system, SuperTeaching, is a software program that helps raise students’ concentration and learning. Its slogan is "Learning at the Speed of Thought." Dr. Wilson Luquire, UAHuntsville’s library dean, will demonstrate the system [...]
Posted by Laverne
Education
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Montgomery, AL. (AP) — The State Board of Education has unanimously approved a policy to begin evaluating presidents of Alabama’s two-year colleges. This will be the first time for the evaluations, which will begin later this year for some of the leaders of the college system’s 27 campuses. Under Thursday’s new policy, staff members in [...]
Posted by Laverne
Education
Monday, August 25th, 2008
BIRMINGHAM — The University of Alabama and Auburn University have received high marks in a ranking of the nation’s top public universities. The 2009 rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report puts Alabama at No. 37 and Auburn at No. 45. Alabama moved up a few spots from last year’s No. 42 ranking while [...]
Posted by JimsterP
Breaking, Education
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Jay Qualey, a language connoisseur from South Alabama, dropped by the greasepit at Wade’s Dixieco with a couple of examples of misused spell checks. The first was from a book "A Wolf at the Table" by Augusten Burroughs. One passage read: "I looked again at my mother, searched her face for certain evidence — the [...]
Posted by JimsterP
Breaking, Education
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Classroom crunchMonday, July 14, 2008Huntsville Times An inability to share school space makes merger more attractive Good intentions don’t necessarily produce good results. Especially when you are talking about bureaucracies. And even more when you are talking about the local school systems. The Madison County Board of Education has a major problem – too many [...]