$10,000 to an outstanding young educator
ASCD's Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Program recognizes creative and committed teachers and administrators under the age of 40 who are making a difference in the lives of…
Month: April 2010
Up $400,000 to provide literacy to migrant families
The Migrant Education Even Start (MEES) Family Literacy program is intended to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy of migratory agricultural or fishing families.
Win up to $5.3 million for using telecom to improve teaching
The Ready to Teach program (RTT) supports the use of telecommunications to improve teaching.
Win an Amazon Kindle and a $100 gift certificate
Educators are asked to share how they creatively use technology in their classrooms, automatically entering them into a contest to win one of three Amazon Kindles as well…
Win free textbooks or an Apple iPad
Students are invited to enter to win a grand prize of free textbooks for them and five friends, valued at $2,500.
Steve Jobs attacks Adobe Flash as unfit for iPhone
For iPhone users who've been wondering whether their devices will support Flash technology for web video and games anytime soon, the answer is finally here, straight from Steve…
Win up to $50,000 in savings bonds
The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is a national science competition for students in grades five through eight.
Google Apps could save Oregon schools $1.5M
Oregon educators hope a free suite of web-based software applications will help students become digitally literate while saving money for their struggling school districts, reports the Associated Press.
Software update could turn Kindle users into a cloud-based book club
Amazon has posted an overview of what Kindle owners can expect in its version 2.5 software update slated for late May, and a key feature of the update…
Rosetta Stone loses court case against Google
Foreign-language education company Rosetta Stone Inc. has lost a court case in which it sued Google Inc. for allowing rivals to advertise copycat software when Rosetta trademarks are…