Putting Apple iPads in the hands of every student and professor on a PC-based campus required some convincing, but a year later, Seton Hill University officials said the…
On Thursday, the Rhode Island legislature passed HB 5941, an "anti-bullying" measure that, among its other provisions, imposes a blanket ban on the use of "social networking sites"…
According to the Daily Caller, minority parents in New York have a message for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the United Federation…
Don't disconnect your kids: teenagers who spend time on the web are more digitally literate during a time when technological proficiency is increasingly important, a recent report suggests,…
This weekend, Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) signed into law a budget that scrapped $800 million in education funding following an earlier law that reduced collective bargaining rights to…
Hundreds of New York City teachers recruited from Jamaica, Trinidad and other Caribbean countries a decade ago say city officials have not followed through on promises to help…
While schools around the country are dealing with major budget cuts, one supply warehouse manager has figured out how to put money back into the hands of his…
One of the largest sources of free teaching and learning content on the web, Curriki.org now offers more than 43,000 learning assets contributed by educators and available under…
The state constitution says it’s Washington’s “paramount duty to make ample provisions for the education of all children,” but is it failing to do that? This afternoon, the…
New York's new teacher-evaluation system--designed to rate them based in part on student scores in reading and math--is in jeopardy after the state teachers union filed a lawsuit…
The numbers are in: the Walton Family Foundation invested $157 million in grants for K-12 education reform in 2010, a $23 million increase over its 2009 total of…
By the end of this week, some 51,000 seniors will have graduated from New York’s public high schools, each with a minimum of 44 credits broken down in…
Online search leader Google Inc. is taking yet another stab at social networking, as it tries to go up against Facebook in this wildly popular and lucrative segment…
In just three years, the number of high school students who have access to online learning has tripled, while twice as many middle school students are now learning…
What better place to use social networking technologies to connect with fellow educators and school leaders than at the nation's largest ed-tech conference? That's what was happening at…
Douglas County School District officials say their controversial pilot scholarship is going to move forward until a court orders it to stop, the Huffington Post reports.
The Baltimore Sun broke a story revealing that an egregious level of cheating had taken place during state assessment testing at two city schools, and one of the…
My feeling--as someone who works in a local tech education center that shares its library with the high school next door--is that this situation is more complex than…
In a press conference coordinated with the United Neighborhood Organization (UNO)'s announcement that their organization, which oversees a network of charter schools, is adding instructional days to their…
Maryland public school students will need to know their green to graduate under a new policy adopted today by the state board of education, reports the Baltimore Sun.