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Following protests, the institution erases penalties against two students who refused to remove signs supporting Barack Obama from their dormitory window.

Search innovations have been lagging a bit. We occasionally see a new tool that tries to add greater graphical elements to search (such as Kartoo). Today I came across a tool called SearchCube. It's a different way of interacting with...

The economy is front and centre in most conversations these days. It's far to early to evaluate the full scope of impact. We'll see a decade of analysis in movies, books, and journals - what when wrong, who is to...

Those interested in becoming a surgical tech should attend and graduate from a Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) accredited education program. All of the schools...

The availability of jobs for surgical technologists is expected to grow much faster than average according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is especially true for certified surgical techn...

Although currently only a minority of states actually require pharmacy technician continuing education, more and more states have been adding this requirement. Regardless of state requirements, any ph...

Many pharmacy technicians are trained on the job, however, most employers prefer to hire pharmacy technicians that have had formal training or previous work experience. Pharmacy technician requirement...

The current generation of smart phones offer a glimpse of the potential for use in education. About ten years ago, I was involved in a research project to evaluate the use of PDAs (Palm Pilots in particular) in education. The...

Students on a field trip to the coast were killed when their bus went over an embankment.

One of my Friend - Nattily - has asked me a question which I am regularly asked, so I have posted it and my reply in this post.
“I am confused as to which Microsoft certification to study fo...

I have an MCITP Certification in SQL 2005 and I want to upgrade.
The second to last posting in the Microsoft Certifications: Where do I Start Series...

As the state budget picture worsens, leaders of Georgia’s technical-college system are proposing consolidating 14 colleges to save money.

As parents, your role is to guide, encourage and be the first teacher to your kids. It is easier said than done and that is for certain. But if you know the things you just exactly need to do to help ...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the mean annual salary of a physical therapist for May 2007 was $71,520, with those in the bottom 10% earning a mean annual salary of less than $48,5...

Physical therapist requirements include a Master's or Doctoral degree in physical therapy from an accredited program. In 2007, there were 209 different accredited programs, including 43 Master's degre...

Learning a foreign language is easier, such as Chinese, when understanding how you learn. The science of learning is based on several theories and include: multiple intelligences, right-brain/left-bra...

As with most types of jobs, dental hygienist pay rates vary based on a lot of different factors. These include location, the setting of employment, and also how much experience the dental hygienist ha...

A group of students at the University of Missouri at St. Louis is protesting the removal of a photo of Barack Obama from a classroom poster, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . The poster is one of about six created for a “character education” project in an introduction-to-teaching class. The students who included Mr. Obama’s picture said they intended to highlight the Democratic presidential candidate as an example of a good role model and leader, not to make a political statement.

For those who want to know more about how to become a dental hygienist, it would be useful to look into the various training programs available. These usually require an applicant to have completed hi...

According to an ACT college entrance exam study, three-fourths of students who took the ACT in 2006 lacked the skills to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing college courses in reading, math, social...