(Tempe, Ariz.) – Tempe Public Library will now offer homework help, job training and more through a free new online service, Brainfuse. People with Tempe Public Library cards may access the free digital program that allows students in all grades, including college,
(Phoenix, Ariz.) – At the end of its first year of on-the-ground activities, a first-of-its-kind educational initiative in Arizona has yielded several key successes in preparing young people for the future. The work for the unprecedented education initiative, Thriving Together, began
By: Jamie Cochran Cronkite News (Washington, DC) – Arizona had the nation’s biggest drop in kids getting free summer meals between 2013 and 2014, a time when most states saw increases in the number of children reached, a recent
(Phoenix, Ariz.) — The city of Phoenix Human Services Department is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Head Start Program and is now recruiting children for the 2015-16 school year. The center-based Head Start program is looking for children 3
Jordan Bates, doctoral student in applied mathematics and research associate at theCenter for Policy Informatics at Arizona State University, was part of the winning team at September’s Hacks 4 Humanity event, co-hosted by ASU’s Project Humanities and EqualityTV. Bates’ team created software
More than 7,000 students are set to have their degrees conferred at the Arizona State University commencement ceremonies, Dec. 15. The undergraduate ceremony is scheduled to take place at 9 a.m., in Wells Fargo Arena, on the Tempe campus. The
The W. P. Carey Foundation honors 130 years of familial ties to Arizona State University with a $3 million gift to the Arizona Center for Law and Society, the new downtown Phoenix home of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of
Do students grasp science concepts more deeply when they experience them in an immersive, giant-screen format? Mina Johnson-Glenberg, director of the Embodied Games for Learning lab at ASU, will help examine that question as co-principal investigator on a project funded
An interdisciplinary team at Arizona State University has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program to conduct research on the future of the textbook. The project focuses on the “postdigital textbook,” a
As a testament to its commitment to global engagement and educating world-class citizens, Arizona State University has been ranked eighth in the nation as a top university for international students, and 21st nationally for students studying abroad, according to the
