This month, she also won The Washington Post's annual education competition, claiming the title of Teacher of the Year in the Washington region.
Brad Smith, who ran the New York vocational education competition, believes many students are better off learning a trade than trying to get five 65's on state tests.
For universities the significant changes are: developments in online education, competition from private training providers, the emergence of e-research, ICT developments, technological changes in accessing, using and creating information, and social media.
Its stated aims are education, competition and the advancement of synthetic biology.
(ZIJ served as a science judge for some of the competition). The finals had the theme,"Our Changing Ocean: Science for Strong Coastal Communities". The National Ocean Sciences Bowl is an education competition that tests students' knowledge of ocean-related topics, which include cross-disciplines of biology, chemistry, policy, physics, and geology.
That was the scene at the Knowledge Olympics, the largest professional education competition in the Americas.
Here, consumer education and competition can only help.
From A3 to action: use education and competition.
Second, the threat of losing grants leads students to focus on grades rather than education, and competition rather than cooperation.
Jordan's experience shows the way: it has cut red tape, improved education, created competition in telecoms and seeded accelerators.
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.
