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Evolution’s critics shift tactics with schools
They have spent years working school boards, with only minimal success. Now, critics of evolution are turning to a higher authority, reports the Wall Street Journal: state legislators.…
Tech gizmos increasingly target toddlers
Toy marketing giants from Disney to Fisher-Price are nudging preschoolers as young as three years old to put down their sippy cups and pick up digital cameras that can cost…
Purdue set for supercomputer ‘barn-raising’
Purdue University on May 5 plans to install a new supercomputer on its campus in a single day, in an effort it's calling an "electronic barn-raising," CNET reports.…
Reading First initiative is rated ineffective
The New York Times reports that President Bush's $1 billion-a-year initiative to teach reading to low-income children has not helped improve their reading comprehension, according to a Department of Education…
Twenty-three states face budget gaps in 2009
Like a college student fishing for stray quarters in the sofa cushions, states are tightening their belts, dipping into their rainy day funds and hoping revenues will pick up, Stateline.org…
Lego’s latest brick trick: a virtual world
Millions of children pick up Lego bricks each year to spend hours creating their own imaginary worlds. Now, the manufacturer of the little plastic playing blocks wants to take them…
Birmingham-area schools get a big technology infusion
Educators in the Birmingham-Hoover, Ala., area are joining others across the nation in finding that iPods and other MP3 players are more than just a high-tech toy, the Birmingham News…
Arizona students protest possible distance-learning cuts
Bringing song, dance, and a burst of color to the state Capitol, hundreds of students, teachers, and parents rallied April 29, urging Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and lawmakers to spare…
SUI professors settle battle with state over online ethics test
Two Southern Illinois University professors have settled a lawsuit they filed after the state said they flunked a mandatory online ethics test because they finished too quickly, reports the State…
Movement aims for online texts for community-college students
A new effort announced April 28 aims to spur the development of free, online course content geared toward community colleges as an alternative to traditional textbooks that often are too…