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West Virginia targets future teachers’ tech use
The West Virginia Department of Education is teaming up with 19 of the 20 colleges and universities around the state that offer teaching degrees, with the goal of giving teachers-in-training…
More schools to face NCLB’s consequences
Pink slips for principals and teachers, and school-funded tutoring for poor kids: Schools are increasingly looking at those kind of consequences for failing to raise math and reading scores, the…
Educators struggle to interpret dark writing
In the year before the Virginia Tech massacre, the gunman wrote multiple pieces of alarming fiction that troubled teachers and classmates alike--and now schools are trying to distinguish the dark…
Demand for wireless internet paying off for schools
An ambitious plan to blanket the country with wireless internet access has an unlikely beneficiary, reports the Los Angeles Times: public and private schools. …
Can competitions raise ‘cool’ factor of math, science?
At a time when the United States is desperate to halt its slide in the world's math and science rankings, a growing number of super-competitive math bowls and science fairs…
XO laptop’s interface goes independent
The former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child foundation has launched a new initiative in the wake of the project's decision to ship with Windows…
Nintendo apologizes for Wii Fit calling little girl ‘fat’
An innocent Nintendo computer game about balance and fitness is probably the last product that would ever come to mind when you think about video game controversy, but Nintendo's popular…
Report: Girls’ gains have not cost boys
The American Association of University Women, whose 1992 report on how girls are shortchanged in the classroom caused a national debate over gender equity, has turned its attention to debunking…
Senators OK $1 billion for online child porn fight
A U.S. Senate panel has unanimously approved a bill that would encourage federal, state, and local police to use and create special software designed to nab child pornography swappers on…
Facilities bill would fund school renovation
Public school buildings around the country could receive billions of dollars for renovation and modernization under legislation recently approved by a House committee, FacilitiesNet reports. …