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Unlike the US, the EU seems to be welcoming foreign professionals. The European Union took a step recently that the United States Congress can't seem to muster the courage to take. By proposing a simple change in immigration policy, EU politicians served notice that they are serious about competing with the US and Asia to attract the world's top talent to live, work, and innovate in Europe.

Internet Makes Top Colleges Accessible To All
(AP) Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others understand linear algebra. He's written a half-dozen popular college textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been privileged to take his course.

Baseball came all in a rush to my son Joe last summer. He got a Major League Baseball videogame for his seventh birthday that featured real players, and suddenly he was hooked. All at once he learned statistics, strategy and personalities, putting faces and physiques to real players’ names.

The Vietnam-RoK (the Republic of Korea ) Friendship Information College has opened in central Da Nang City.

The two Utah men don't know each other, but they have at least one thing in common. Ben Johnson is a first-year math teacher at Alta High School.

Evolution and the 150-year national battle over its merits comes to Tallahassee's doorstep in February when the state Board of Education decides whether to approve an overhaul of state science standards that would make it a major topic in classrooms for the first time.

When they won the team prize in a national math and science competition earlier this month, Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Marinoff became instant celebrities -- not only for their tuberculosis research, but because of their gender.

COLUMNIST MIKE NICHOLS
Every veteran teacher knows you can no longer hug a kid. A Rib Mountain Elementary School art teacher has now discovered, in addition, you'd better not even offer an encouraging pat on the head. Not unless you want to be investigated by both your bosses and local law enforcement, stand accused of being an assaulter of little children and get reported to Child Protective Services.

You think you know how your neighborhood school is faring — but do you really? What about the performance of your fourth-grader's class? The answers are in The Kansas City Star's fifth annual report on our schools, "Making the Grade."

Michael F. Shaughnessy
Senior Columnist EdNews.org
Eastern New Mexico University
You have recently been involved with the NWEA and the Fordham Institute and released a report entitled " The Proficiency Illusion" What were the basic goals that you were trying to accomplish?