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Administrators share top 10 thoughts on digital learning
More and more educators, parents, and education technology advocates see the need for classroom technology and digital learning, but say that stagnant or shrinking budgets continue to impede progress in…
Teens favor Apple’s iPhone over other smart phones, survey finds
If you think you've seen a lot of teens with iPhones lately, that's because the popular Apple device may be owned by nearly half of all U.S. teens, according to…
School faculty pay survey shows growing gap
A growing wage gap between public and private colleges, coupled with the increased reliance on part-time instructors, threatens to degrade academic quality at certain universities, according to a new report…
Could your school lead in world rankings?
A new test from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will let individual schools see how their achievement ranks compared to schools in other countries around the world.…
Education can make you taller in old age
The Telegraph reports that researchers found that those who had completed secondary education shrank nearly 2cm less in their dotage than the illiterate, who had not even completed primary school.…
Obama unveils White House brain-mapping project
The White House unveiled a human brain research program Tuesday that could point to new strategies for dealing with illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and autism, NBC News reports.…
More diagnoses of hyperactivity in new C.D.C. data
The New York Times reports that nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical…
Student loan write-offs hit $3 billion in first two months of year
Banks wrote off $3 billion of student loan debt in the first two months of 2013, up more than 36 percent from the year-ago period, as many graduates remain jobless,…
Are these five educational technologies really ‘success stories’?
Robots that teach students language skills and free online courses that reach hundreds of thousands of students simultaneously are among the educational technologies touted as "success stories" in a new…
Survey reveals surprising facts about LGBT students
The state of New York may have a comparatively liberal attitude towards its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents. But a new poll suggests that generally tolerant mindset may…