Walton Family Foundation gives $157 million toward education reform
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…
Month: June 2011
Taking a spin on the Hudson, and earning course credit, too
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…
Google unveils latest social networking feat
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…
Demand for online learning increases
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…
ISTE conference is alive with social networking
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…
Colorado holds lotto to help underprivileged children pay for private schools
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.
More cheating uncovered in city schools
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…
Opinion: Are school librarians expendable?
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…
Brizard, Emanuel suggest CPS teachers make home visits
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…
Green literacy new graduation requirement in MD
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.