Cash and computers for smart energy use
This competition engages teens nationwide to find new and innovative ways to conserve energy and reduce waste in their schools.
Month: February 2011
$50K for youth engagement grants
The Sodexo School Engagement Grant is designed to ensure that every child in the United States grows up with access to enough nutritious food. The programs funded through…
Foreign language and international studies funding
The Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) program provides grants to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.
$2M for history education
The Teaching American History (TAH) grant program supports projects that aim to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of traditional American history as a…
Up to $700,000 for Alaska Native education
The purpose of the Alaska Native Education program is to support innovative projects that enhance the educational services provided to Alaska Native children and adults.
Funding for school libraries and literacy
The purpose of this program is to improve student reading skills and academic achievement by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped, technologically advanced…
AUPs shape Web 2.0 use, guidelines
As educational technology transforms teaching and learning, many districts are finding that once-solid acceptable use policies (AUPs) must be updated to reflect students' and teachers' increasing use of…
Funding for overseas research centers
The American Overseas Research Centers Program makes awards to any American overseas research center that is a consortium of institutions of higher education to enable the center to…
Awards for charter school programs
The purpose of the CSP is to increase national understanding of the charter school model (1) by expanding the number of high-quality charter schools available to students across…
Funds for Native American and Alaska Native students
The purpose of this program is to provide grants for eligible entities to develop high levels of academic attainment in English among English learners, and to promote parental…
Free recycling bins to keep schools clean
Grant recipients receive both donated recycling bins and expertise on how to set up recycling programs from Keep America Beautiful.
Tech tool could take the guessing out of college fundraising
College and university fundraising officials might not have to wonder how alums feel about their alma mater thanks to a computer program that can tell just how much…
Labor protest draws tens of thousands in Wisconsin
A crowd estimated at more than 70,000 people on Saturday waved American flags, sang the national anthem, and called for the defeat of a Wisconsin plan to curb…
Higher education, lower blood pressure: study
According to the AFP, the more advanced degrees a person has, the lower their blood pressure, a study published online has found.
California headed for cuts for for-profit students
California's student aid commission said on Friday that aid funds going to students at for-profit schools should be slashed first when the state cuts its education budget, Reuters…
Comcast, NBC deal opens door for online video
To win government approval to take over NBC Universal last month, cable giant Comcast Corp. agreed to let online rivals license NBC programming, including hit shows such as…
British educators telling students: Go abroad
Caught between the rising cost of university tuition in England and the falling percentage of applicants offered places, one British school is giving its students some surprising advice,…
Three successful mobile learning projects
The Katy Independent School District in Texas has about 60,000 students. During the 2009-10 school year, the district used bond funds and federal e-Rate funding to create a…
Where are we going? A look at the future of mobile learning
The movement toward a one-to-one computing environment—that is, one device for every child—soon will be moot, says Phil Emer, director of technology planning and policy for The Friday…
Innovative learning content for mobile devices
Though many educators believe there needs to be more content developed specifically for mobile devices in order to take full advantage of mobile learning, some excellent sources of…
NSBA, AASA to combine national conferences
The National School Boards Association and the American Association of School Administrators will combine their annual conferences into a single event beginning in 2013, the two organizations announced…
Urban students lag in science learning: study
Students in schools in the largest U.S. cities, many from low-income households, trail their peers elsewhere in the country in a test of science proficiency, according to a…
Leader of teachers’ union urges dismissal overhaul
Responding to criticism that tenure gives even poor teachers a job for life, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, announced a plan Thursday to…
Harvard, Princeton reinstate early admissions
Harvard and Princeton say they are restoring their undergraduate early admissions programs, the Associated Press reports.
Providence faces shortfall, teachers to get dismissal notices
The school district plans to send out dismissal notices to every one of its 1,926 teachers, an unprecedented move that has union leaders up in arms, reports the…
Fixing higher ed: Lumina’s Jamie Merisotis
In a story that published Sunday in the Washington Post Magazine, I offer eight suggestions to "fix" higher education, says Daniel de Vise of the Washington Post.
Schools boost efforts to ID fake student addresses
Kelley Williams-Bolar, alarmed after her home was broken into, yanked her two daughters out of their urban Akron, Ohio, schools and enrolled them in her father's suburban school…
Federal broadband service map reveals need for connectivity
The National Broadband Map, released by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Feb. 17, reveals that while the majority of schools are connected to the internet, those…
New clicker technology allows a different look at student answers
The anonymity of lecture hall response systems has taken the awkwardness out of sensitive questions in Timothy Loving’s Introduction to Family Relationships course, and a new clicker software…
Google versus Microsoft: The battle for the K-12 cloud contract
North versus South. Rural versus urban. Add to those delineations now, as schools and government agencies across the U.S. move to the cloud, Google versus Microsoft, reports ReadWriteWeb.
Security to ward off crime on phones
More consumers are buying smartphones. So more criminals are taking aim at those devices, reports the New York Times.
Graduate schools quantify your potential
In July 2009, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nonprofit educational testing and research organization that administers the GRE, began offering the Personal Potential Index, according to U.S.…
Obama names Facebook, Intel and Comcast execs to new jobs council
President Obama named Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, venture capitalist John Doerr and Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts to his council on jobs and competitiveness, highlighting the…
Hands-on review: Motorola Xoom tablet
Come Thursday, a formidable new player in the budding tablet market—the Android-powered Motorola Xoom—will land in stores, Yahoo! News reports.
On prank call, Wis. governor discusses strategy
On a prank call that quickly spread across the internet, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was duped into discussing his strategy to cripple public employee unions, promising never to…
Maine laptop program offers lessons in ed-tech implementation
Nine years after it became the first state in the nation to initiate a 1-to-1 laptop program in its schools, Maine continues to innovate with technology and has…
Digital citizenship curriculum targets fourth and fifth graders
Common Sense Media has launched a new version of its free digital citizenship curriculum, Digital Literacy and Citizenship in a Connected Culture. The new version adds student, teacher,…
Court won’t let Conn. challenge education law
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday against hearing Connecticut's challenge to the federal No Child Left Behind law, ending the state's six-year lawsuit over how to pay for…
Ind. Democrats flee to Illinois, block labor bill
Indiana House Democrats who fled to Illinois like their counterparts in the Wisconsin Senate say they'll continue their boycott until Republicans assure them they won't debate public education…
Report: Apple to unveil iPad 2 on March 2
If the latest chatter is true, we may finally get our first glimpse at the next iPad in a little more than a week, reports Yahoo! News.