Education

AMBLER, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Drexel University's School of Public Health has launched the National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities. It's the first national online database of resources focused on preparedness issu...

PITTSBURGH,PA. - July 8, 2008 - An international summer science camp for high-school students that centers on environmental education has been created by Bayer Corporation in partnership with RiverQuest and Creek Connections of Allegheny College.

CHICAGO,IL - July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, a sponsor of Just the Beginning Foundation's 2008 Summer Legal Institute, hosted a luncheon and panel discussion for more than forty Chicago-area high school juniors and seniors on June 20, 2008, at the...

SAN ANTONIO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Education Association Foundation is joining the Digital Art Alliance. They will sponsor, with The Pearson Foundation, digital arts programs in school districts that are part of the NEA Foundation's Achievement Gap Sites progr...

SAN ANTONIO, TX - June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- E3: Employers For Education Excellence, in an effort to help teachers become better equipped to lead students into the 21st century, is joining the Digital Arts Alliance, which promotes digital arts in K-12 education through fully fu...

SAN ANTONIO, TX - June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pearson Foundation announced today at the annual National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) that the International Society For Technology in Education (ISTE) is expanding its partnership with the Digital Arts Alliance.

SAN ANTONIO, TX - June 30 /PRNewswire/ - The Pearson Foundation today announced a series of new partnerships, programs, and funding commitments with members of the Digital Arts Alliance, the consortium that promotes digital arts in K-12 education through fully funded and sta...

NEW YORK, NY, - June 30, 2008 - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt today announced that the GE Foundation, the philanthropic organization of General Electric Company, has awarded the New York City Department of Education (DOE) a five-year gr...

NEW YORK,NY, June 30, 2008(PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- PricewaterhouseCoopers is ending 100 college interns with 21 of its top performing partners and staff to Belize City, Belize for a unique international volunteer experience. Called "Project Belize," the effort will refurbish four...

FAIRFAX, VA,. - June 24, 2008 - UNCF"“the United Negro College Fund"“the nation’s oldest and most successful minority higher education assistance organization, and the global research-based pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc., announced yesterday awards of scholarsh...