The MIT Sloan School of Management has announced a new application round for its Master of Finance program beginning July 2012. This new round will have a submission deadline of March 15th.
MIT Sloan’s degree is a one-year program designed to prepare students for careers in the financial industry. It consists of required and elective courses, a pro seminar and an optional Master’s thesis. MIT Sloan accepts professionals well into their careers, but the M-Fin program primarily targets recent graduates with 0 to 2 years of experience. Recent graduates of post-graduate programs in math, science and engineering who wish to enter the finance profession are also encouraged to apply.
As part of this new, third M-Fin application round, applications will be due on March 15th and decisions will be released by April 13th.
The Mind Trust in Indianapolis released a plan over the weekend that proposes a bold and dramatic transformation of public education akin to what has taken place in New Orleans and New York City. The plan, an amalgamation of some of the nation’s most promising school reform strategies looks to transform Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) which have been chronically underperforming for several years. The plan hopes to diminish a 20 percentage point achievement gap between IPS students and the state in English and a dismal 58 percent graduation rate.
The Mind Trust report observes that great schools across the country share a set of core conditions that enable them to help all students achieve. Among these core conditions are the freedom to build and manage their own teams, refocus resources to meet actual student needs, hold schools accountable for their results(and close those that don’t perform), and create a system of school choice that empowers parents to find schools that they want their children to attend.
- Downsizing the Indianapolis Public Schools district office while allocating resources to school level leaders. Acc
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The U.S. Supreme Court has passed up a set of cases for the online age—whether schools may censor students who are off-campus when they create online attacks against school officials and other students, the Associated Press reports. The court let stand the suspension of a West Virginia high schools Queen of Charm, who created a Web page that suggested another student had a sexually transmitted disease, and invited classmates to comment. The court also left alone rulings that said schools could not discipline two Pennsylvania students for MySpace parodies of their principals that the students created at home. An appeals court, following 40-year-old case law on student speech, said the posts did not create substantial disruptions at school…
The electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a method to read the heart health. The heart is responsible for the flow of blood throughout the body and its role is the most important. The EKG technician training allows students to learn how to do cardiovascular system tests in a proper way. When there is an irregularity in the functioning of the heart, the individual may experience problems due to irregular flow of blood. Thus, the EKG tests are taken to check the electrical signals generated by the heart.
All actions such as tensing and expanding of the chambers of the heart are observed by electrical signals generated by a node in the upper right atrium of the heart. Read more…
WASHINGTON Young elementary school students should use the proper names for body parts and, by the end of fifth grade, know that sexual orientation is “the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender,” according to new sexual education guidelines released Monday by a coalition of health and education groups.
The nonbinding recommendations to states and school districts seek to encourage age-appropriate discussions about sex, bullying and healthy relationships starting with a foundation even before second grade.
- Bullies do long-term damage to themselves, as well as victims Jan.
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