The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday pledged to give up to $1 million to help equip high school students in the tornado-ravaged city of Joplin with laptop computers…
Hong Kong's biggest teachers' union on Wednesday called on city officials to block a proposal to usher in mandatory classes about Chinese patriotism, the AFP reports.
Researchers at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have developed a new method to create high-resolution, 3D images using a portable apparatus, which previously could have only…
Eighteen children filed into a small church one evening last week to learn about the principles of American liberty—including lessons on the failures of communism, the Constitution's biblical…
It's back to school season, and we're guessing you're dragging your feet to hop back on the learning wagon (yes, teens, we've seen your Tweets about dreading the…
After nearly 200 years, the House page program that allowed high school students to serve as messengers and learn about Congress is ending, rendered obsolete by the internet…
“MAKING fun of Wikipedia is so 2007,” a French journalist said recently to Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation that runs the Wikipedia project, reports the…
The Obama administration and four states are accusing a private for-profit college corporation of illegally paying recruiters to enroll students, the latest action in an examination of the…
With incidences of reported autism increasing exponentially, educators are struggling to accommodate the needs of this growing population of students. But some key steps, including individualized assessments and…
Ben Barnhard had reason to be optimistic this summer: The 13-year-old shed more than 100 pounds at a rigorous weight-loss academy, a proud achievement for a boy who…
Fewer things seem out of place at the rough-hewn DefCon hacker convention than a swarm of kids. For the first time, this year's DefCon included discussions and tutorials…
With a growing number of states rebelling against the No Child Left Behind law and stalled efforts in Congress to reform it, the Obama administration says it will…
That Facebook is hugely distracting is hardly stop-the-presses kind of news, but parents might be dismayed to learn that the social-media site can hobble learning and make kids…
During a stop in Iowa August 4th, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that "schools indoctrinate our children," the Des Moines Register reports.
Apple and education have always gone hand in hand, from the first Apple IIs gracing libraries across the nation to the countless aging machines now in place at…
One month after Atlanta was rocked by revelations of a widespread school cheating scandal—nearly 200 teachers and principals admitted to tampering with standardized tests to raise students’ scores—Ms.…
The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) announces the Institute's FY 2012 competitions for grants to support education research and special education research. The Director takes…
The MSEIP is designed to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority…
NIFA announces the availability of grant funds and requests applications for the People's Garden Grant Program (PGGP) for fiscal year (FY) 2011 to facilitate the creation of produce,…