You won’t likely wow parents by sharing the classroom rules and procedures. You will, however, wow them by sharing valuable information about their child. How do you do…
At a time when many school districts are forced to cut technology spending, some schools are able to purchase laptops, digital cameras, and other classroom technology through a…
With students constantly online, whether in the computer lab, on smart phones, or at home, the topic of cyber security has never been more important. Yet, even though…
Pets in the Classroom now offers four different grant opportunities for elementary school teachers. The program's original grant is the Rebate Grant, which provides teachers with the opportunity…
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! are excited to offer $15,000 Let's Play Playground Construction Grants to qualifying organizations using the KaBOOM! Community-build model. Grantees will plan their…
The UnitedHealth HEROES Program is a service-learning, health literacy initiative developed by UnitedHealthcare and YSA. The Program awards grants to help youth, ages 5-25, create and implement local,…
Public schools and universities soon could face the same intense political scrutiny as left-leaning filmmakers and politicians after internet entrepreneur and controversial blogger Andrew Breitbart said his newest…
The Idea Fund, a grant opportunity funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is currently seeking applicants for its 2011-2012 program. Ten Texas-based artists will…
Toshiba America Foundation's mission is to provide teachers with additional funds to support classroom projects. After school and summer projects, and independent study projects are not eligible. The…
The founder of The American Lawyer magazine and Court TV tells the story of a coalition of unlikely allies in the fight to change a school system that…
Hundreds of nominations have been received for outstanding teachers in grades preK-3 for the prestigious 2012 Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching! Administrators, teachers, counselors, parents and…
The White House established the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) Program. The Program, administered on behalf of the White House by the…
Americans are spending more and more on education, but the resulting credentials—a high-school diploma and college degrees—seem to be losing value in the labor market, reports the New…
Projects supported by the foundation should: Disseminate economic thinking and knowledge by all available means, to the end that greater happiness and prosperity may come to all through…
California's system for measuring improvement in schools was always better than the federal government's, and a bill by state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) would enhance it in…
The Department of Education on Tuesday announced the guidelines governing the $500 million in Race to the Top grants that it sees as a tool to reshape preschool…
The Humane Society of the United States announces the availability of grant funds for innovative humane education opportunities in K-12 classrooms. Mini-grant applications are judged according to a…
After Hulston Poe started taking the appropriate ADHD medication, his mother said she was able to "see a light" in her son's eyes again, reports the Huffington Post.…
A popular online education resource now provides interactive curriculum tools specially tailored to correspond with both state standards and the Common Core standards—and U.S. educators can use the…
Many schools across the country have rules about tech in the classroom, but they’re not the rules you might think. Teachers instruct students to take out their smartphones,…
The city's embattled schools superintendent abruptly left the district Monday with $900,000 promised in severance, capping a tumultuous tenure that saw increased test scores and graduation rates but…
Here is everything you ever wanted to know—even things you didn’t know enough to know that you wanted to know—about the back to school season, compiled by our…
Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot? If you haven't worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do list, the…
As the nation prepares to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, many teachers are struggling with how to teach…
From the NCSS, a variety of resources and lesson plans on 9/11 and the war in Iraq: http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/moments From PBS, ... Read more
Greg Green, Principal, Clintondale High School in Clinton Township, MI, discusses his school’s redesign and very significant improvement in student ... Read more
Teachers Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergmann from Woodland Park High School, Woodland Park, CO, discuss their “flipped class”in which homework ... Read more
A Florida high school's "Teacher of the Year" has been suspended for an anti-gay post he wrote on his Facebook page last month, the Huffington Post reports.
When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District returned to school this week, they found a lot of old friends, teachers and familiar routines awaiting them.…
Gov. Rick Perry might make a case for his presidential potential around the country, but critics in his home state question his leadership on education, CBS 19 reports.
Buh-bye, Touchpad…and buh-bye to the perennial back-to-school pallets of HP hardware. Time to look elsewhere for tech refreshes, no matter how cheap HPs might be (or might become),…
A problem that has plagued schools in Atlanta, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere could further erode confidence in public education—just when schools need all the support…
We believe many American schools today provide an effective education, but that the bar is rising, requiring new ways to think about how to educate today's students. A…
A Missouri teachers' union said Aug. 19 that it is challenging a controversial new state measure that restricts teachers' use of social networking sites and their contact with…