Learning and Memory: Activity-Controlled Gene Expression in the Nervous System
Source: MIT OCW

The mammalian brain easily outperforms any computer. It adapts and changes constantly. Most importantly, the brain enables us to continuously learn and remember. What are the molecular mechanisms that lead to learning and memory? What are the cellular roles that activity-regulated gene products play to implement changes in the brain?How do nerve cells, their connections (synapses), and bra... Read More

Languages Plus
By: Elizabeth Redden
Inside Higher Ed - July 23, 2010

Timothy A. Bennett strives toward a new vision for the foreign language department. “You can think of a university as a little continent full of different kingdoms,” said Bennett, chair of the foreign languages and literatures department at Wittenberg University, a Lutheran liberal arts college in Ohio. “I’d prefer that languag... Read More

The Education Department will propose much-anticipated regulations Friday that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs if too many of their students default on loans or don't earn enough after graduation to repay them.

"Some proprietary schools have profited and prospered but their students haven't, and this is a disservice to students and to taxpay... Read More

Parents, teachers fear 'robot' school reports
By: Kelly Lane - June 28, 2010 - 8:27AM

Software that allows primary school teachers to produce student report cards without writing a single word has raised concerns with parent and citizens groups.

Report Robot, a software program described on its website as a ''revolutionary... Read More

Florida Tech Becomes First Nationally Ranked University to Offer an MBA With a Specialization in Internet Marketing 100% Online

TAMPA, Fla., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Tech University Online (Florida Institute of Technology) and Bisk Education have affirmed their commitment to online education with an innovative new business d... Read More