Ohio governor’s budget plan includes union limits
In another move that would limit the influence of organized labor in the state, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has proposed exempting universities from a requirement that they pay…
Month: March 2011
Meteoric Twitter serving a billion tweets every week
Twitter is extremely popular. You know it. We know it. Another news story reiterating that fact perhaps isn’t necessary, The Tech Herald reports. That being said, certain major…
Claim: Google Apps for Education inaccessible to blind students
An advocacy group has filed a complaint with the federal government accusing New York University (NYU) and Northwestern University of discriminating against the blind by adopting Google’s eMail…
Mobile learning, online communities take the spotlight
During its annual conference in New Orleans March 15, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched two new initiatives: one to help school leaders understand how to lead…
Obama pledges crackdown on cyber bullying
President Barack Obama paved the way for victims of cyber bullying and their families to speak candidly about how school bullying has affected their lives in profound ways…
Experts: Use national budget crisis as an opportunity
In the opening session for the Consortium for School Networking’s annual conference, held this year in New Orleans, the theme was "Mastering the Moment," which referred to the…
$600K awards to strengthen STEM
This program aims to strengthen predominantly black institutions to carry out programs in the following areas: science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM); health education; internationalization or globalization; teacher…
Up to $1.8M for history education
This program supports the establishment of Presidential Academies for Teaching of American History and Civics (Presidential Academies) that offer workshops for both veteran and new teachers of American…
$1M to help parents of children with disabilities
This program helps to ensure that parents of children with disabilities receive training and information to help improve results for their children.
Funding for education and special education
The central purpose of the Institute's research grant programs is to provide parents, educators, students, researchers, policymakers, and the general public with reliable and valid information about education…
Free classroom robotics sets
To mark the unveiling of the RoboRescue Challenge, Pitsco Education is awarding eight event sets valued at $800 each: four to participating teams in each of the two…
Classroom books and prizes for participation in vocabulary webcast
The WordGirl Definition Competition from Scholastic is a way to engage your students with vocabulary words in an entertaining and interactive context. During the 30-minute, live webcast, students…
Student leaders needed for community projects
Thirty students, ages 17-20, from across the United States and Canada comprise the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. They are charged with helping State Farm design and implement…
As library eBooks live long, publisher sets expiration date
The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an eBook — is the subject of a fresh and furious debate in the publishing world,…
Today decides fate of emergency financial manager bill
Legislation that would give broad new powers to emergency managers appointed to guide financially struggling cities and schools in Michigan is close to becoming law, reports ClickOnDetroit.com. The…
Threats to traveling data
With small and fast laptops, powerful smartphones, tablets and readily available Wi-Fi, working on the road — on planes, in airports and hotel rooms — has never been…
AT&T puts broadband users on monthly allowance
AT&T broadband users will soon face a cap on the amount of internet data they can download a month, Wired reports. Traditional DSL users will be capped at…
Hewlett-Packard hikes dividend, outlines strategy
Hewlett-Packard Co. says it plans to increase its dividend for the first time in over a decade and one day soon sell "cloud computing" services to the public,…
How to handle campus crises in the digital age
Pepperdine University President Andrew Benton told higher-education officials March 7 in Washington, D.C. that they should be wary of contact with journalists covering campus emergencies such as fires…
Software helps personalize math instruction
K-12 math instruction is undergoing fundamental changes as individualized adaptive learning programs combine with lessons meant to keep students of all ages engaged and interested.
Obama pushing Congress on fixing education law
President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to rewrite the nation's governing education law in time for a new school year next fall, the Associated Press reports. It's…
March Madness: Which team is smartest?
As the NCAA college basketball tournament kicks off, The Daily Beast ranks all 68 teams based on their grades and graduation rates, from first to worst. The sports…
Computer science courses use mobile apps to make coursework relevant
A Virginia Tech software engineering class in 2009 was discussing world problems and how computer science might offer solutions when a student piped up with a personal gripe,…
Foreigners in Japan rely on Twitter for breaking news
Twitter has been a lifeline for Westerners both inside and outside of Japan as they try to keep up with fast-moving events following the March 11 massive earthquake…
It came from their lab. But how to take it to the bank?
There are a lot of smart people in universities. Some may even be geniuses. Many of them are certainly good at inventing technologies that will change our lives,…
$1.5M grant jump-starts teacher development
Tutor.com, which connects students with live tutors online for tutoring in math, science, social studies, and English, is the largest online tutoring and homework help service available—and, with…
Small campuses focus on retaining students with the help of technology
An Arizona community college and a New York campus with 1,000 students are using technology embraced by large research universities to stem alarming drops in student retention, especially…
Thousands gather for Ind. Statehouse union rally
Union workers, teachers, lawmakers and labor organizers said at a huge Statehouse rally Thursday that Indiana Republicans and GOP leaders nationwide have gone too far in pushing an…
Cuts to Head Start show challenge of fiscal restraint
The difficulty Senate Republicans faced voting this week for a bill full of spending cuts is best illustrated on the home page for the Alaska Head Start program’s…
As competitors pop up, iPad keeps price advantage
The new iPad model hitting stores Friday comes with several improvements over the original version but the same price tag, hobbling efforts by rivals at breaking Apple Inc.'s…
Opinion: How Bill Gates misinterprets ed facts
According to Richard Rothstein for the Washington Post, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates authored an op-ed published in the Washington Post late last month, “How Teacher Development could Revolutionize…
LinkedIn launches social news site for professionals
LinkedIn is unveiling another piece of its strategy to make LinkedIn a destination site for more than just job-seekers, with the launch of LinkedIn Today, reports ReadWriteWeb.
Fed rule could have ‘major chilling effect’ on online instruction
Colleges that offer online instruction nationwide would have to get approval from every state in which they operate, or those online courses could be shut down, after the…
Can GPS tracking devices help lower truancy rates?
Schools in the Anaheim Union High School District in California are the latest to try a novel way to improve attendance: monitoring students' whereabouts with GPS tracking devices.
5 ways to integrate technology into your child’s education
Most of us didn’t have today’s technology options when we were in school, so while parents realize technology has become an integral part of their child's education, they're…
Most public schools may miss targets, Education Secretary says
More than 80,000 of the nation’s 100,000 public schools could be labeled as failing under No Child Left Behind, the main federal law on public education, Secretary of…
Kansas schools try separate lunches for sexes
Middle school lunch periods can be a free-for-all of teasing, rough-housing and flirting among boys and girls trying to impress or intimidate, Reuters reports.
Memphis voters OK city schools merger with county
City voters chose Tuesday to dissolve the Memphis school system and force the county--whose students are accustomed to much more success in the wealthier suburbs--to take over its…
Half the game is mental; So is the other half
The students memorize all they can, usually in 15-minute stretches of tedious silence, reports the New York Times.
Wis. GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining
At least two dozen protesters spent the night just outside the Wisconsin state Assembly chamber in anticipation of a late Thursday morning vote on explosive union rights legislation…