Occupy Wall Street spills into classrooms
While on Wall Street many protesters decry economic inequality, and in Washington, D.C. debates continue over federal education policy, teachers across the country are occupying their classrooms, the…
Month: October 2011
Study: More than half of young children use digital media
Fifty-two percent of children ages 5-8 use smart phones, video iPods, iPads, or similar devices, and four in 10 2- to 4-year-olds use the same devices, according to…
School fires up iPads to fine-tune phys-ed skills
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Opinion: Should Halloween parties be held at public schools?
Political correctness is ruining school celebrations once again. It seems like there is at least one story every October in recent years relating to Halloween parties at public…
Students compete to design better lunches
Instead of pizza and hotdogs, high school students in six U.S. cities are trying to serve up healthier lunch options to their classmates as part of a national…
Suburban high school eliminates class rankings, valedictorians
In 2007, Hinsdale Central High School eliminated class rankings. Now, the affluent suburban Chicago high school, which has been consistently named one of the best schools in the…
Opinion: The impact of Michelle Rhee’s ‘culture of urgency’
It is an almost universal tribute offered about Michelle Rhee’s 3 1/2 -year tenure of the Washington D.C. school district—that if she accomplished one thing, it was to…
Missouri repeals law restricting teacher-student internet and Facebook interaction
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Friday repealing a contentious law that had limited online chats between teachers and students and caused a judge to warn that it…
iNACOL updates its online teaching standards
As online learning becomes more ubiquitous in schools and districts across the nation, a leading online-learning organization has updated its national standards intended to help shape high-quality online…
Study: Student progress can be tied to teacher education
The academic progress of public school students can be traced, in part, to where their teachers went to college, according to new research by the University of Washington…
Ten ways schools are using social media effectively
To understand how social media, an almost integral part of our current culture, can benefit K-12 schools and districts, we asked eSchool News readers: “Name one way you…
Warren Buffett’s free financial literacy lessons
With the country wallowing in deep economic troubles that serve as testament to how little Americans understand about money, super investor Warren Buffett just launched a financial literacy…
First Lady Michelle Obama sends her first tweet
First lady Michelle Obama has officially joined the Twittersphere with her very first tweet sent Oct. 19 from the MLB World Series, Mashable reports. Her tweet went out…
Laid-off Philadelphia teacher sets sights on rebuilding school libraries
The library at Rowen Elementary School is musty and outdated - a locked room used for storage and occasional meetings, a repository of yellowing, untouched books, the Philadelphia…
New version of Gmail coming soon
A new version of Gmail featuring a revamped look, redesigned conversation threads and improved search is slated for pending released, according to an official video that was mistakenly…
In Brooklyn charter school, a focus on co-teaching and inclusion
Allison Keil and Sara Stone, young and idealistic teachers, founded the Community Roots Charter School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, six years ago. The school has 300 students in…
States rewrite education rules, with or without Race to the Top
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Senate rejects spending to hire more teachers
A $35 billion measure that included $30 billion for state and local governments to hire teachers and other school workers fell short of the 60 votes it needed…
Student: How I know trainees aren’t highly qualified teachers
I traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., for the first time in my life last May. It was exciting to visit the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington…
Feds to hear Va Tech appeal in Dec.
The U.S. Department of Education has scheduled a December hearing to take up Virginia Tech's appeal of fines it received for failing to notify campus sooner during a…
Listen: Why teachers cheat and how to deal with the problem
In response to the profusion of cheating scandals surfacing across the country, the Washington Post in July created a digital roundtable of experts to discuss their views on…
Study: can school nurses help teens quit smoking?
Counseling sessions with a school nurse may help some high school students, especially boys, quit smoking--but only for a little while, according to a U.S. study, Reuters reports.
School district caught banking federal food funds
A Los Angeles-area school district accused of misspending $1.5 million in federal meal money for needy students is planning to meet with state administrators this week in an…
Report: Mobile app use exploding on campus
Colleges and universities have made significant gains in deploying mobile applications over the past year, according to the 2011 Campus Computing Survey, the largest continuing study of higher-education…
FTC seeks comment on important online privacy changes
Possible changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) are on the horizon as the Federal Trade Commission has proposed updating the law to reflect how technology…
Tools help districts avoid cyber attacks
To help district leaders prioritize and measure their cyber security readiness, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) released version 2.0 of its cyber security planning tools. The updated…
Teaching in the world’s most isolated classroom
Last summer, I spent a month teaching academic English skills to North Korean university students at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the country’s first privately funded…
Bob McDonnell’s ed dept. admits Obama’s policies saved or created 7,715 teacher jobs
President Obama's decision to separate his jobs bill into individual pieces and push for funds to hire teachers and first responders first has so far failed to convince…
Veteran teacher on what ‘highly qualified’ really means
As Congress wrestles with the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), they have a chance to address the issue of teacher quality, once again, says…
Mother lies to school, says daughter’s rival has STD
Forget spending days on an application essays and laboring over character references. One mother from Queenstown, New Zealand has admitted to taking drastic, and illegal, measures to ensure…
George W. Bush to speak at Get Smart Schools education reform event in Denver, Thursday
Former President George W. Bush will be taking part in a discussion about education with non-profit Get Smart Schools as well as Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver Public…
Feds, companies work to close digital divide
According to a recent residential broadband survey, 35 percent of all Americans and 17 million U.S. children live without access to broadband service—and while these statistics are alarming,…
Oklahoma school district launches its own mobile app
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5 new ways colleges are reaching high school students
Each fall, the recruiting season seems to be the same process for colleges and universities: Send recruitment mailers to prospective students who signed up online or at college…
Teacher aid is first piece of Obama’s jobs plan to get Senate vote
Senate Democratic leaders have settled on which piece of President Barack Obama's jobs plan they want to move on first: $35 billion for state and local governments to…
Opinion: What “no excuses” model really teaches us about reform
“Apollo 20” is a Houston pilot program in which a group of low-performing regular public schools are implementing the so-called “no excuses” education model common among high-profile charter…
Group to protest school board over teacher’s anti-gay Facebook comments
Gay rights activists are calling on community members to protest at a New Jersey school board meeting to take action against a Union Township high school teacher who…
California school spending among lowest in the nation
Budget shortfalls have pushed California's spending on public schools to a historic low, relative to the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by the…
Education, technology groups collaborate to leverage student data
A new collaboration among three prominent education and technology groups will aim to help schools meet growing demands to leverage student data to boost achievement while highlighting best…
To balance budgets, schools allow ads
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