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Education: School in the cloud: Children with mentors on the other side of the world

YoopyaApr 25, 2014September 7, 20230

Five years ago, an Indian schoolboy struck up an unlikely friendship with a retired teacher in London – and with her help he is now

US politics: California GOP hopeful wants free college for science, math students

YoopyaApr 23, 2014July 21, 20230

(Reuters) – California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Neel Kashkari called for free college tuition for students pursuing math and science degrees, part of an education reform

Education: Colleges seek to improve remedial programs

YoopyaApr 16, 2014July 21, 20230

BALTIMORE (AP) — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only

Education: US first lady hosts education roundtable in China

YoopyaMar 24, 2014March 18, 20230

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. first lady Michelle Obama told Chinese professors, students and parents on Sunday that she wouldn’t have risen to where she was

Things that separate a beauty school and other schools apart

CrystalMar 17, 2014March 1, 20240

You might be familiar with the terms beauty schools and cosmetology schools. You may think about whether the terms can be traded or if there

Education: Kansas high court: School funding unconstitutional

YoopyaMar 7, 2014September 16, 20230

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court said Friday the state’s current public school funding levels are unconstitutional. In the much-anticipated ruling, the court

Urban students take their best shots at squash

YoopyaFeb 27, 2014September 30, 20230

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sakora Miller remembers being puzzled when a group of strangers visited her gym class in tough west Philadelphia and offered to teach

Jamaica school serves as cradle for island’s music

YoopyaFeb 24, 2014November 25, 20230

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Barefoot and dressed in donated clothes, 12-year-old Renaldo Brown methodically plays scales on a flute under the canopy of trees at

It’s grad school at the museum for NYC students

YoopyaFeb 17, 2014November 1, 20230

NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up on Long Island, Katie Warner used to visit New York City’s American Museum of Natural History and remembers being

Free education lures Somali children from streets

YoopyaFeb 7, 2014November 29, 20230

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Two years ago Mohamed Aden was a shoe shiner in Mogadishu, walking the streets of the Somali capital in search of