High-tech school bus extends learning
The Pope County, Ark., district is participating in a new program for rural schools believed to be the first of its kind: It's is playing math and science…
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Travel for high-achieving students
This program seeks 12 top public high school juniors and 12 dynamic educators to receive seven-day, all-expenses-paid scholarships to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 26 – July…
$120,000 for arts and humanities programs
Over the last 13 years, the Coming Up Taller Awards have recognized the accomplishments of exceptional arts and humanities after-school and out-of-school programs across the country. Its new…
Funding for community projects
This program aims to discover five inspiring people 45 and over with ideas to improve their communities. Each winner will receive $5,000 and resources and support from the…
Win a classroom laptop set from Acer
This program gives K-12 schools the chance to win notebooks and netbooks from Acer while learning more about mobile technology platforms that will best suit their students’ needs.…
iPod Touch and software for courageous essays
This grant program aims to help students find inspiration in reading and writing. The contest encourages students to explore and write about their own experience with courage and…
Prizes for superb district web sites
The SchoolE Awards recognize the very best in web strategy, design, and effectiveness within the K-12 sector.
$15,000 for literacy projects
These grants support service-learning projects focused on increasing young people's interest in reading and improving literacy in schools and communities. Successful projects will be youth-led and address an…
$500 or $1K to fight childhood obesity
These grants bring together students of all abilities to fight childhood obesity in their schools and communities. The program awards grants of $500 or $1,000 to help youth…
Prizes for teen driver safety awareness
This contest, part of National Youth Traffic Safety month, is a national teen-led and school-based activism competition to help spread the word about safe teen driving and encourage…
Wis. students chatted with gunman to keep him calm
Trapped in their classroom with a student gunman, a group of terrified Wisconsin high schoolers worked desperately to keep their captor calm by chatting and laughing with him…
Text messaging: a lecture hall epidemic?
College students say their professors would be “shocked” to know just how often they send text messages during lectures, and one researcher has offered a simple and stringent…
Netflix partner says Comcast ‘toll’ threatens online video delivery
Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts internet video companies at a…
EU launches antitrust probe into Google searches
European Union regulators will investigate whether Google Inc. has abused its dominant position in the online search market--the first major probe into the online giant's business practices, the…
Pa., N.J. legislators blast loss of charter aid
New Jersey and Pennsylvania legislators criticized the Christie and Rendell administrations on Monday for their states' failures to win federal aid for charter school start-ups, reports the Philadelphia…
Facebook co-founder launches social network Jumo for social good
Today, users can start connecting with all their favorite social causes in one online sphere, as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has launched his much-buzzed-about social network, Jumo, reports…
High school graduation rate is increasing, report shows
Higher standards, better data use, and more parent engagement are among the strategies responsible for the first significant improvement in America's high school graduation rate in 40 years,…
NYC schools chancellor pick will get waiver, official says
New York's state education commissioner will grant media executive Cathie Black a waiver to serve as chancellor of New York City schools, an official with knowledge of the…
Can a publisher run schools? The experts debate
Is it a sure thing that an expert manager in one field can succeed in another? The New York Times asked four prominent experts in business management what…
When the software is the sportswriter
StatSheet is working to endow software with the ability to turn game statistics into articles about college basketball games, reports the New York Times.
Opinion: Creating bipartisan education reform
The administration has an opportunity to show leadership and demonstrate a desire for bipartisan solutions with the new Congress by focusing on President Barack Obama’s American Graduation Initiative,…
5 holiday tech scams to avoid
The FBI, McAfee, the Better Business Bureau and F-Secure are all warning about cybercriminals who will try to take you for a ride this holiday season, reports PCWorld.
How online classrooms are helping Haiti rebuild its education system
While reconstructing the destroyed universities is a long-term task, University of the People is hoping to give Haitian students a way to continue their educations before it's completed,…
Babylon.com offers dictionary and translation services to schools free of charge
Babylon Ltd., a provider of language learning solutions and dictionary and translation software, has announced a new donation program for K-12 schools worldwide, called "Babylon in Every School."…
What the ultimate tablet might look like
As cool as some of the new devices are, we've yet to find one that offers everything we want in a tablet, PC World reports. Here are the…
Report finds low graduation rates at for-profit colleges
A new report on graduation rates at for-profit colleges by a nonprofit research and advocacy group charges that such colleges deliver “little more than crippling debt,” citing federal…
Nearly 1 in 3 kids want an iPad for the holidays
Not quite sure what your little ones want from Santa this year? Well, industry researchers drew up a list, checked it twice, and guess what red-hot, 9.7-inch gadget…
Let schools be creative with motivation
Two demographically similar and academically impressive local high schools — Northwood in Montgomery County (Md.) and West Potomac in Fairfax County (Va.) — have been debating grades. Both…
Emergency? Text 911
The Federal Communications Commission wants to bring the 911 emergency service into the 21st century with new technologies such as text messaging and automatic alerts, CNET reports. In…
The Great Education Conversation
The sky’s the limit at the National Conference on Education--the premier destination to learn new approaches and to challenge your thinking. At this conference, you will get a…
AASA’s 2011 conference will focus on innovative practices
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) kicks off its 2011 National Conference on Education on Feb. 17 in Denver, Colo. This year's conference will focus on the…
Researchers aim for earlier autism diagnoses
With autism diagnoses on the rise, autism awareness organizations are banding together to increase early detection and education practices for students with the disorder.
Multitasking, wireless printing come to iPad
Apple Inc. released new software on Nov. 22 that lets users of its iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad devices print wirelessly over Wi-Fi networks. The software addresses what…
Professor’s ‘yawn’ rant offers a lesson in viral video
Cornell University Professor Mark Talbert’s search for a student who yawned during class was first seen by about 200 students. The recorded rant had been viewed 218,000 times…
8 ways technology is improving education
Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways, reports Mashable.
At least 20% of Facebook users exposed to malware in their news feeds
Just how much malware is out there? Based on the scans that BitDefender has run so far, about one-fifth of Facebook users have some sort of infection in…
NJ lawmakers approve tough law to fight bullying
A law against bullying in schools, which advocates call the nation's toughest because it requires schools to develop anti-harassment programs, was approved Monday in New Jersey, reports the…
New social eReading platform allows real-time discussions, right on the eBook’s pages
Describing itself as "part online bookstore, part social network," and "the world's first truly social eReading platform," Copia has launched a platform designed to bring together book-buying, reading…
News Corp. buys education technology company
News Corp. said that it had agreed to acquire 90 percent of education technology company Wireless Generation for 360 million dollars in cash, reports the AFP.
Cyberthieves still rely on human foot soldiers
A small Michigan company, where an employee unwittingly clicked on an official-looking eMail, secretly gave cyberthieves the keys to the firm's bank account, reports the Associated Press.