$500 for music education
The Music Is Revolution Foundation makes mini-grants for activities designed by teachers to implement, support, and/or improve their ability to provide quality music education for their students. Funds…
Month: March 2009
$25,000 to eight community colleges
The Civic Ventures Community College Encore Career project will award $25,000 to eight community colleges developing innovative encore career programs in education, health care, nonprofit leadership, and the…
Have an instructional unit or course published and get paid for it
Curriki is soliciting elementary and middle school content in ELA, math, science, and social studies. Projects must provide or develop comprehensive resources for substantial units of study, develop…
$3,000 scholarship for high school seniors who are English language learners
High school seniors who have learned English as a second language are invited to apply for the Rosetta Stone $3,000 Communicate and Connect ESL Scholarship essay contest. Students,…
Total of $550,000 in grants given to science teachers
Elementary, middle, and high school science teachers in the United States, U.S. territories, and Puerto Rico area sked to apply – individually or in teams, submitting project proposals…
$10,000 to high school students who promote safe driving
State Farm and the National Youth Leadership Council are asking high school students to develop a campaign to address the issue of teen driver safety in their communities.…
Premiere Assistive Technology software suite to winning school
Since 2002, Premier Assistive Technology Inc. has been offering its full suite of Accessibility Suite software products to educational and nonprofit organizations through its Breaking Down Barriers to…
Teacher faces disciplinary action for racy online photos
A U.K. teacher is facing disciplinary action after outraged parents spotted photographs of her posing in her underwear on the internet, reports the Daily Mail.
Colorado bill to help schools ‘go green’
Colorado lawmakers on March 29 unveiled a plan to offer school districts low-interest loans to install solar panels on rooftops, build wind turbines, or convert diesel-guzzling buses to…
New standards to facilitate eLearning
A consortium of educators and technology executives has developed a common set of standards that will allow any kind of digital learning content--such as an electronic text, an…
Federal judge blocks charges in ‘sexting’ case
A federal judge on March 30 temporarily blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three northeastern Pennsylvania teenagers who appeared in racy photos that turned up…
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AV technology in focus at InfoComm 2009
With a focus on the power of audio-visual technology, InfoComm 2009 gets underway on June 14 in Orlando, Fla. More than 30,000 attendees from around the world, and…
Breach sends water onto school campus in Fargo
The slowly receding Red River breached a dike on Fargo's north side early Sunday, sending water flowing into buildings at a school campus before it could be contained,…
Interactive web feature helps students learn about scientific inquiry
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has launched ASK IT!, a moderated forum and free online resource designed to model the scientific process. Students are invited to identify…
Lawmaker crafting bill to set penalty for teens’ ‘sexting’
As ever-more-aggressive high school flirting clashes with evolving technology, Ohio lawmakers are searching for the appropriate way to deal with the growing trend of teenagers transmitting nude pictures…
North Carolina students use online classes to save money
Developed by former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley in 2007 and funded by the General Assembly, a program called Learn and Earn Online enables high school students across…
Giant internet worm set to attack Apr. 1
The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way…
Evolution theory takes a round in Texas
Texas will no longer require educators to teach weaknesses of all scientific theories, including those of evolution. The requirements were approved March 27 by the State Board of…
Giant internet worm set to attack April 1
The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way…
‘Virtual reality’ learning to debut in Baltimore Co.
"Virtual instruction" is set to become a regular part of learning this fall in a Baltimore County school, reports The Baltimore Sun.
Fort Collins students find a voice through Internet radio
While other kids his age were playing football or performing with the drama club, Jake Wood was busy starting his own radio station. The idea first came to…
Google to students: Flip bits, not burgers
Google Inc. is accepting applications for its "Summer of Code 2009" program, which offers stipends to student software developers to write code for various open-source software projects during…
Microsoft offers free tools for high schoolers
High school students are now able to access and download professional Microsoft Corp. software such as Visual Studio and XNA Game Studio for free, a service that has…
Google to students: Flip bits, not burgers
Google Inc. is accepting applications for its "Summer of Code 2009" program, which offers stipends to student software developers to write code for various open-source software projects during…
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NECC 2009 will explore students’ roles in a digital world
Attendees at the 2009 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) will examine what it means to live in a digital world, and will discuss the best ways to prepare…
Prosecutor sued for threatening charges in ‘sexting’ case
The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Pennsylvania prosecutor on March 25 over his threats to charge three teenage girls with child pornography for allowing themselves to be…
Twitter is put on new U.K. primary school curriculum
Children in the United Kingdom who are ages 5 to 11 will be taught how to use the social networking web site Twitter, as well as blogs, webcams,…
Technology links museum to students in high-def
Through the internet and video conferencing technology, representatives from Carnegie Museum of Natural History's distance learning initiative have appeared on large television screens in elementary, junior high, and…
Six technologies soon to affect education
Collaborative environments, cloud computing, and "smart" objects are among the technologies that a group of experts believes will have a profound impact on K-12 education within the next…
School sports caught in new-media rights dispute
A dispute over who has the right to broadcast school sporting events online has intensified, as a media company and a newspaper trade group say a lawsuit by…
University president talks, teaches tech
Building curriculum on the basics of information technology (IT) has helped one university president design courses that go beyond the surface teachings of computer certification to address skills…
Tanking property values might halt new Broward schools construction, technology
Throw the Broward County, Fla., school district's five-year construction and technology plan out the window, district financial staff told school board members at a March 24 workshop, reports…
Lessons from the most successful schools abroad
Education trends from abroad are gaining cachet as political and educational leaders strive to bring American schools in line with the demands of the 21st-century global economy, reports…
Streaming video games pose IT challenge
First, campus IT officials have to contend with the strain on their networks' bandwidth caused by students' streaming or downloading of music and movies online. Now, a new…
