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By: Jessica Calefati

In the days since President Obama announced plans to invest an unprecedented $12 billion in the nation’s community colleges, he has received praise for training the national spotlight on institutions he says are too frequently “treated like the ugly stepchild of the higher-education system.” But the shimmer of that spotlight already has [...]

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By: Gina Kirchweger

Of all the qualities that distinguish humans from other species, how we learn is one of the most significant. In the July 17, 2009 issue of the journal Science, researchers who are at the forefront of neuroscience, psychology, education, and machine learning have synthesized a new science of learning that is already [...]

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By: Emily Peters

Brownwood Independent School District Superintendent Reece Blincoe brought his district one page closer last week to his ambitious plan to be a paperless school system in the next five years or so.

The district earned $500,000 with the state’s Vision 2020 Immersion grant that pays for every eighth-grade student to have a laptop [...]