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New grant program seeks solutions to toughest classroom challenges »
The U.S. Department of Education has partnered with the nation’s largest teachers union and its charitable foundation to launch a grant program encouraging public school educators to identify and solve K-12 education’s most pressing classroom...
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Students object to attendance-taking technology »
Officials at Northern Arizona University are reminding students that faculty members have the choice to use new electronic scanners that track attendance at the campus’s largest lecture halls, but some students continue their vocal opposition...
September 8 2010 / Read More »
Job forecasts point to importance of higher education »
Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay—or none at all. Job creation...
September 7 2010 / Read More »
Teens sue Facebook over ‘like’ button »
Two Los Angeles County teenagers are suing Facebook, claiming the social networking giant effectively sold their names and images to advertisers without parental permission....
September 3 2010 / Read More »
Are open textbooks gaining momentum in higher ed? »
Officials from open-license textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge say more than 1,300 instructors at 800 colleges and universities will use their books this fall semester—doubling the 400 institutions that used Flat World texts a year...
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Microsoft sends Bing back to school
Microsoft on Sept. 8 is launching Redu, a Bing-powered web site that aims to act as a "homeroom" for people interested in learning more about the state of American schools, CNET reports. The site, to...
September 8 2010 / Read More »Editing, enhancing Wikipedia becomes project at colleges
Some professors believe Wikipedia has no place in the footnotes of a college paper. But could it have a place on the syllabus? The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that does fundraising and back-end support...
September 8 2010 / Read More »School district, Verizon collaborate to incorporate cell phones into curriculum
Mobile phones have long been treated as contraband in classrooms, but this school year, hundreds of fifth- and sixth-graders in Toms River, N.J., will carry smart phones into their classrooms to fulfill a new academic...
September 8 2010 / Read More »Feds probing claims of bias against Arizona’s non-native English speaking teachers
The federal government is investigating whether a new Arizona policy discriminates against teachers who are not native English speakers, reports the Arizona Republic. The state’s education department for years has been monitoring the English fluency...
September 8 2010 / Read More »Microelectrodes translate brain waves into words
In a first step toward helping severely paralyzed people communicate more easily, Utah researchers have shown that it is possible to translate recorded brain waves into words, using a grid of electrodes placed directly on...
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Online Learning: One Pathway to Success »
A growing number of K-12 school systems are discovering the power of online learning to transform education as we know it, opening...
Apr 9 2010 / Read More »Securing Student Laptops for Safe Learning »
Technology is an essential part of a 21st-century education for both teachers and students, and district 1-to-1 computing initiatives and laptop lending...
Dec 13 2009 / Read More »Surviving the school budget crisis »
Although the economy has begun to rebound, school leaders say they're still facing serious budget shortfalls for the 2010-11 academic year that...
Jul 18 2010 / Read More »Communication and Collaboration for More Effective School Management »
The ability to work together on group projects is seen as an increasingly important skill for the 21st-century workplace, and a growing...
Apr 30 2010 / Read More »Flexible 21st-century classroom environments »
As you’re all too aware, deploying technology in the classroom isn’t easy. There are all kinds of logistical challenges to overcome to...
Jun 29 2010 / Read More »Project-based learning in the classroom »
With employers looking for graduates who can communicate effectively, think critically, and solve problems in collaboration with other team members, more and...
Aug 28 2010 / Read More »Solving the STEM Education Crisis »
As the workplace changes and becomes increasingly global, today's students must be educated with a 21st-century mindset. Science, technology, engineering, and math...
Dec 13 2009 / Read More »New Options in One-to-One Computing »
Just a few short years ago, school leaders looking to give every student a computing device had a fairly simple choice to...
Aug 28 2010 / Read More »Empowering Education with Video »
Communication has changed, and students and educators are increasingly using video technologies in all aspects of education. Knowing how to produce, edit, and...
Aug 26 2010 / Read More »Expert Blog: Security Insights »
Now more than ever, top-notch physical and network security in schools is essential to student and staff well-being. A vigilant and proactive...
Apr 29 2010 / Read More »Interactive Learning in the Connected Classroom »
Research has shown that technology can, indeed, help improve teaching and learning when used wisely-and companies have responded in kind, creating hardware,...
Jul 15 2010 / Read More »How technology can help with language instruction »
Learning a foreign language is an increasingly important skill for success in the global economy—and learning to speak and read English fluently...
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