$50,000 for new playgrounds
Locals in your community can donate points to their schools by entering the code found on any of their 13 favorite Coca-Cola products at www.mycokerewards.com. Sprite will work…
Month: October 2010
More than $13,000 for fine arts projects
Simply paint, draw or sketch an original work of visual art addressing the theme, Scenes of Nature, using materials purchased at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores or Joann.com.…
Awards for open-source developers
Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible, is starting on November 22, 2010. Students worldwide are…
Play games for scholarship money
Competition for scholarships is grouped into a series of 75 day rounds. Players will compete against the entire ScholarGamers.com community to generate the highest cumulative scores for 45…
Fellowships for science teachers
Renewable for up to five years and valued at up to $150,000, the highly competitive Fellowships support America’s best and brightest teachers of high school mathematics and science…
$25,000 for middle school science fans
The Broadcom MASTERS, a program of Society for Science & the Public, is designed to inspire and reward interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among students…
$10K and an iPad for high school heroes
This first-of-its-kind social entertainment program and competition is centered on inspirational people in the high school community, including students and teachers. Users can now nominate and vote for…
Funds for school programs and activities
National PTA and Promethean are launching a national initiative to help members “Fund their Dream ActivClassroom.” As part of a new three-year sponsorship, Promethean will help local PTAs…
Awards for women in higher education
The State Network Leadership Award is awarded to an outstanding women’s network or college/university program that makes innovative and visionary contributions to the advancement of women in higher…
FCC taking on cyberbullying in schools
Reuters reports that schools receiving subsidies for internet service will have to teach students about the perils of cyberbullying and the responsible use of social networking sites, the…
State data systems present privacy concerns
Data privacy is a top concern for stakeholders when it comes to using educational data to drive student achievement and school improvement—and an Oct. 21 webinar from the…
University dean accidentally hits the ‘reply all’ button
Higher-education faculty and administrators got another lesson in the pitfalls of electronic communication and viral eMail messages last week when a University of Missouri dean mistakenly sent a…
Ark. school board member who posted anti-gay rant will quit
The head of an anti-bullying group has applauded the decision of an Arkansas school board member to resign after posting on Facebook that he thinks gay youths should…
University posts info of 40K students
The Social Security numbers, grades and other personal information of more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students were posted online for nearly a year before being removed…
List of failing students mistakenly sent to all students
An e-mail listing 18 students at risk of flunking out of Wesley College in Delaware was mistakenly e-mailed to every student at the college, according to a report…
Does income-based school integration work?
Economic integration, a concept first floated by early public-school crusaders like Horace Mann, is a compelling idea with intuitive appeal: reduce the preponderance of high-poverty schools by spreading…
Omeka launches a hosted platform to move museum collections to the cloud
Open-source publishing platform Omeka announces today the launch of a hosted Web service, Omeka.net. While similar in some ways to the content management system provided by WordPress, Omeka…
Survey: Mobile learning at a tipping point
According to a recent national survey, access to mobile technology in the classroom has more than tripled among high schools students in the past three years—and even more…
Judge grants injunction vs new Mass. obscenity law
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction sought by free-speech advocates who argued that a new Massachusetts law aimed ... Read more
Chinese wrest supercomputer title from U.S.
A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as…
Ed Dept moves to pre-empt for-profits who “game” system
The U.S. Education Department's final rules to rein in for-profit schools, which are accused of failing to educate students while leaving them heavily in debt, would bar incentives…
As college fees climb, aid does too
As their state financing dwindled, four-year public universities increased their published tuition and fees almost 8 percent this year, to an average of $7,605, according to the College…
FTC drops Google StreetView inquiry; other countries, not so much
The Federal Trade Commission has ended its inquiry of Google and the data it collected from unsecured wireless hotspots, citing the company’s improved privacy policies, reports ZDNet.
Lawmaker calls for investigation of College tuition policy
A Republican Maryland lawmaker urged a criminal investigation of Montgomery College on Wednesday, challenging the school's longtime practice of giving resident tuition discounts to illegal immigrants, reports the…
How not to use Facebook, if you’re a school official
A northern Arkansas school board member, commenting on a campaign to get people to wear purple to show support for bullied gay and lesbian youth, purportedly posted a…
Website combines project-based learning, social responsibility
A new partnership between Microsoft Corp., the Smithsonian Institution, and TakingITGlobal uses educational technology to help students solve real-world challenges through online collaboration with their peers around the…
New online tool helps teachers use primary source documents
The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore documents in a…
Barnes & Noble unveils color Nook eReader
Barnes & Noble Inc. is introducing a new Nook eReader with a color touch screen for $249 as competition in the fast-growing industry heats up ahead of the…
eMail spam falls after Russian crackdown
You may not have noticed, but since late last month, the world supply of Viagra ads and other eMail spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth, reports the…
Opinion: Community colleges must commit to change
A new report documents abysmally low student transfer and completion rates at California's two-year schools. Two L.A.-area campuses have already begun to make changes, say directors at the…
Study: Half of high school students admit to bullying
Half of all high school students say they have bullied someone in the past year, with nearly as many saying they have been the victims of bullying, according…
Needing students, Maine school hunts in China
Faced with dropping enrollment and revenue, a high school in a remote Maine town has fixed on an unlikely source of salvation: Chinese teenagers, reports the New York…
Dept of Ed: Some bullying violates federal law
The U.S. Department of Education is warning schools: Tolerating or failing to adequately address ethnic, sexual or gender-based harassment could put them in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws.
Online-instruction leader to make key changes
In a move that might trickle down to the rest of the for-profit education market, the University of Phoenix—the nation’s largest provider of online college classes—says it will…
Help stop bullying, U.S. tells educators
In a 10-page letter to be sent today to thousands of school districts and colleges, the Department of Education urges the nation’s educators to ensure that they are…
Police: Conn. woman gave son weapons for school
A woman in Connecticut is facing charges for allegedly sending her 12-year-old son to school with a BB gun and a folding knife so he could protect himself…
Firefox add-on can hijack Facebook, Twitter logins
Secured logins have been one of the most crucial issues pertaining to web security today. Eric Butler, a freelance web application developer showed how vulnerable current day websites…
Amazon Kindle will let you lend your eBooks. Once. Maybe.
Amazon's Kindle Team announced on Friday that it plans to make lending for Kindle available "soon," reports ReadWriteWeb.
Google ‘mortified’ over Wi-Fi data gathering
Google on Friday confirmed that its Street View cars had inadvertently captured e-mail messages and passwords during their image gathering missions, the result of WiFi sniffing software that…
Readers weigh in on Facebook in school, 21st-century skills
Recent eSchool News stories inspired readers to add their thoughts to important ed-tech issues and events. Here, we've assembled the latest reader comments to keep you up to…
