Jenny Alvey's sixth-grade science class at Tennessee's Gresham Middle School hit the jackpot May 4, reports the Knoxville News Sentinel, as a contingent from Oak Ridge Associated Universities…
President Obama is asking states to make education reforms in exchange for nearly $40 billion in stimulus funds for schools. But his aspirations might be on a collision…
It's been a long-held tradition in American public education that decisions about standards and curriculum are best left to state and local school systems, not the federal government.…
Though schools in a handful of states have closed temporarily to curtail the spread of swine flu, that hasn't interrupted the learning process for many students--thanks to technologies…
In a course that many believe to be the first of its kind, Northwestern University film students last winter learned the keys to creating online videos with the…
In a course that many believe to be the first of its kind, Northwestern University film students last winter learned the keys to creating online videos with the…
Health officials are trying to use teenagers’ favorite technology, the cell phone, to fight disease and unwanted pregnancies, reports the New York Times.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education has sued Agora Cyber Charter School in Devon, Pa., alleging its board misused millions of taxpayer dollars to benefit a company owned by…
Two Missouri brothers were indicted by a federal grand jury April 23 on charges of illegally harvesting student eMail addresses from more than 2,000 campuses using a program…
Two Missouri brothers were indicted by a federal grand jury April 23 for illegally harvesting student eMail addresses from more than 2,000 campuses using a program that falsified…
In a May 1 letter to President Obama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter said he would be retiring from the nation's high court in June. Souter's announcement…
Universal Response to Intervention Response to Intervention (RTI) helps teachers identify struggling learners and adjust instruction accordingly, so that student do not fall behind.
ING will provide 50 $2,000 grants to schools that desire to establish a school-based running program or expand an existing one. The grant program was created in an…
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) is providing grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language…
eInstruction and Knowledge Delivery Systems is inviting educators to tell them what online resources they have or would like to use that contribute to the success in their…
The Calypso School First Foundation will award three school-wide classroom sound-field reinforcement systems (up to 35 classrooms) beginning in the 2009-2010 school year. The grant awards will be…
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides a $12.8 million one-time appropriation to California for equipment assistance grants to school food authorities (SFA) participating in…
A growing number of schools are embracing books in electronic format, but many classic titles that have become staples of the English curriculum still aren't available as eBooks.…
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