Dell’s College Gaming League® (CGL) announces that registration is open for the exclusive Back-to-School tournaments, battles run from September 15 – October 5, 2008.

Anyone who teaches a large group of students has probably experienced undesirable student behaviors. I taught the introductory college biology course at Syracuse University, and several hundred students attended each lecture.

An NYT story about Berea College, in Berea, Kentucky, is here. With a population of 9,851, it is not rural by Census Bureau standards, but it is non-metro by the OMB definition. Here are some quotes from Tamar Lewin's story on Berea College:

Educating the public about nanotechnology and other complex but emerging technologies causes people to become more "worried and cautious" about the new technologies' prospective benefits, according to a recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University.

Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies.

A systematic literature review conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Connecticut, the Hispanic Health Council (Hartford), and the Connecticut Center for Eliminating Health Disparities among Latinos assessed the impact of peer education/counseling on nutrition and health outcomes among Latinos living in the United States.

In a world where economies are increasingly dependent upon high-level knowledge, higher education is a key national resource. But a Forward Look initiated by the European Science Foundation (ESF) shows that we need to know more about how universities, and other higher education institutions, are changing in the 21st century.

Policymakers, universities, and employers should work together to speed the development of professionally oriented master's degree programs in the natural sciences, says a new report from the National Research Council.

The nation's fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government's latest annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation's children.

"I promise to accelerate our momentum as a world- class University, yet remain a faithful index to the best hopes and dreams of all South Carolinians," said Harris Pastides, the new president of University of South Carolina.

According to the 2008 Quality Counts report - a national comparison of state education systems - Florida ranked among the top 15 in the country.

As part of its efforts to facilitate the adoption and integration of technology in schools, HP today announced computing products, education solutions and 2008 HP Technology for Teaching Leadership Award winners at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).