In the midst of the most important information technology geographical area, shines a small wonder helping protect our private information, local IT training school Academy of Computer Education (ACE), in Greenbelt, Maryland. ACE is a small business which consists of 6 full-time employees and a number of contracted training instructors. ACE’s big news is that [...]
BrillKids Inc has launched Little Reader LITE, a free downloadable software program that enables parents to create customized reading lessons for their children. Combining virtual flash cards with high-quality multimedia, Little Reader is the world’s most effective tool for teaching reading to babies and children of all abilities. Designed to be used from the age [...]
ExploreLearning, a business unit of Voyager Learning Company, announced that use of their flagship product, Gizmos, has reached all-time highs during non-school hours. Thirty-nine percent of teacher users access the product on weeknights and weekends, while 23 percent of students using Gizmos work with them outside of class time.
Gizmos are online simulations for math [...]
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“A horrifying act stood at the center of Toni Morrison’s 1987 masterwork, Beloved: a runaway slave, caught in her effort to escape, cuts the throat of her baby daughter with a handsaw, determined to spare the girl the fate she herself has suffered as a slave. A similarly indelible act stands at the center of [...]
The Wal-Mart Foundation is celebrating Veteran’s Day by donating a total of $3.6 million in grants to 12 organizations to support programs that provide educational assistance for veterans. The American Council on Education (ACE) received a $2.5 million grant to support successful veteran educational assistance programs in 20 institutions of higher education. In addition, the [...]
Engineers from the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), High-End Computer Networking (HECN) at NASA Goddard Flight Center (NASA/GSFC), Juniper Networks, Inc. and Fujitsu Network Communications have successfully completed a live trial of 40 Gbps connections between the University of Maryland campus and facilities in McLean, Va. using routing and optical equipment from Juniper Networks and Fujitsu. While [...]
Reliant Energy has awarded $1,000 scholarships to eight Houston-area high school student athletes through its Scholarship for Champions – Powering Strong Minds and Bodies program.
The Scholarship for Champions recipients were selected by Reliant Energy, which teamed up with the Houston Texans to create the scholarship program in 2006. Each student athlete is selected based on [...]
“Because of the scarcity of available organs, the Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center is looking at new ways for heart disease patients to go on living with their own hearts. This is a paradigm shift in the way we approach the failing heart,” says Daniel Goldstein, MD, Surgical Director of the heart Transplant and Mechanical Assist Device [...]
Imagine a food drive that can mobilize a nationwide network of caring communities to collect nearly 400,000 pounds of food in a single day. Now imagine how that food will fill the sparse shelves at local food banks suffering from slowing donations and rising need.
Sodexo, a leading provider of food and facilities management services, and [...]
Lincoln Educational Services Corporation reported third quarter 2008 results.
Highlights:
– Record revenue of $100.5 million for the third quarter of 2008, an increase of 16.1% from $86.6 million for the third quarter of 2007.
– Diluted EPS from continuing operations increased to $0.22 for the third quarter of 2008, representing an increase of 29.4% from $0.17 for [...]