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The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius. All he did, after all, was enroll in college at age 8 and earn his first of two Associate of Arts degrees from East Los Angeles Community College at age 9, graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Now, at 14, [...]
Figures show almost 800,000 additional children aged 11 or under will be in state education by 2020 because of rising birth rates and the effects of immigration. According to the Department for Education, the primary population is set to soar by a fifth – reaching its highest level since the early 70s. The disclosure underlines [...]
AT&T Sponsored Nifty Fifty Program Speaker and Surgical Roboticist Carol Reiley made the recent cover of MAKE Magazine! She is the first female engineer to make the cover of the magazine. Volume 29 of MAKE features an interview and two articles co-authored by Carol. Carol, a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University’s Computational Interaction and [...]
The Hillsborough Education Foundation has a new leader. After six months with an interim leader, the foundation announced this morning that Barnie Philip “Phil” Jones Jr. had been selected as president. Jones was the founder of the Orlando-based Barnie’s Coffee & Tea Co., which grew into a 125-store retail chain before he sold it. He [...]