Posts Tagged ‘education’
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Russ Williams
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 12:19 pmContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Russ Williams from North Carolina Zoological Society and the Russlings blog to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Mark MacAllister
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:07 amContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Mark MacAllister, Coordinator of On-Line Learning Projects at the North Carolina Zoological Society to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Andrea Novicki
Monday, March 1, 2010, 6:24 pmContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Andrea Novicki from the Duke CIT blog to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Maria Droujkova
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 10:18 amContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See the interviews posted so far here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Maria Droujkova to answer a few questions:
Does student financial aid work? RTI gets $70 million to find out
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 5:57 amCollege is expensive and about two-thirds of all students who continue their education past high school receive some type of financial aid. This year, the U.S. Department of Education will spend about $116 billion on student financial aid.
The investment reflects how important college degrees are to the economy, the labor pool and the standard of living in the U.S.
But does student financial aid work? What is the taxpayers’ return on the investment?
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded RTI International a $70 million contract to find out.
