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.