Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education (GPEE) has released the ninth edition of the Top Ten Issues to Watch. In the nine years since GPEE released the inaugural edition of this publication,...
President Obama announced the creation of a new, national corps comprised of the nation’s best STEM educators. The STEM Master Teacher corps will begin with 2500 Master Teachers and expand to...
Today in History - October 4, 1957 - Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the Earth’s first artificial satellite, into space at the peak of the Cold War.
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Posted by guest blogger Scott Chumbley. Today in History - October 4, 1913 - Steel Treaters’ Club is founded. Before the steel industry was fully developed, steel treating was a...
Today in History - October 3, 1899 - the first motorized vacuum cleaner patented (U.S. No. 634,042) as a “pneumatic carpet renovator” by John S. Thurman of St. Louis, Mo. The...
by guest blogger Adrian Agogino: Today in History - October 1, 1958 - NASA is offically begins operations. Before the launch of Sputnik, the United States felt confident in its position...
by guest blogger Kristen P. Constant: Today in History- September 30, 1935 - Dedication of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. The concrete-arch dam, originally called Boulder Dam, supplied...
by guest blogger Bruce Mason: Today in History - September 29, 1954 - CERN convention ratified. A small number of scientists first envisioned CERN vision as an opportunity to bring...
Today in History - September 27, 2003 - The first European mission to the moon was launched aboard an Ariane-5 rocket carrying the SMART-1 exploration probe, along with two commercial...
by guest blogger John Prados: Today in History - September 25, 1974 - Scientists first reported that freon gases released from aerosol spray cans were destroying the ozone layer (Molina, M. j.,...
