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eInstruction announces ‘Flip Your Classoom’ winners
eInstruction, a global education software and technology company, today announced the three grand-prize winners of its sixth annual Flip Your Classroom – eInstruction Classroom Makeover Contest. The winners, representing the…
National Science Foundation awards $5M national cybersecurity grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded Prince George’s Community College a $5 million National Advanced Technological Education Center continuation grant for its National CyberWatch - Cybersecurity Education Solutions for the…
KIPP D.C. wins $10 million in Race to the Top education-grant competition
The Washington Post reports that charter school operator KIPP D.C. is among 16 winners of the federal government’s Race to the Top District grant competition, U.S. Department of Education officials…
S.C. panel urges more spending to recruit teachers
South Carolina's education oversight panel recommended that legislators spend more on programs designed to draw high school students into teaching and fill slots in the state's neediest schools, the Associated…
Google gives $23 million to boost science education for girls, minorities
Google is announcing $23 million in grants to spur innovation among charities and increase education for girls and minority students in science and technology, the Associated Press reports.…
Expert shows school district funding disparities
The Texas Legislature's decision to cut $1.4 billion in grants to public schools disproportionately hurt poor districts, costing them $253 per student a year compared with $21 a year for…
Are we spending too little on standardized tests?
Matt Chingos has an idea that will likely roil the scores of parents and teachers who think the U.S. tests its students too much: we might actually spend too little…
More bad news for Ala. tuition plan; parents irate
The board that oversees Alabama's prepaid college tuition program got more bad news about the plan's financial outlook Wednesday, and the board's chairman got an earful of outrage from frustrated…
Grants to fight hunger
More than 16 million children live in food insecure homes, not always sure where their next meal will come from. That's why YSA and Sodexo Foundation are calling on young…
$10K in classroom products and a call with Santa
Skype continues to support the use of technology to further education experiences through our Skype in the classroom program. Now, educators have a chance to win $10,000 in Microsoft products…