Beginning this week, nine states that were the runner-up finalists from last year's Race to the Top competition can apply for a portion of the $200 million Race…
National American organization Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment (TRUCE) announced on Wednesday the results of its "2011-2012 Annual Toy Selection Guide" naming this year's top ‘toys of value,'…
Several dozen elementary schools with scores higher than the state's target for academic success have been placed on a list of 1,000 "low-achieving schools." Being on the list…
For the children of Pili, a village high in the foothills between China, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, getting to school isn't just difficult, according to a report by The…
In a recent "Question of the Week," we asked our tech-savvy readers: “How do you get tech-reluctant teachers and administrators to use technology effectively?” Here are our readers'…
In this issue: • Painful lessons in social media use • New developments in instructional technology • Reinventing education: A progress report • eRate discounts to reach hundreds…
Learn how Wenatchee Valley College transformed its distributed silo-based storage into a comprehensive Scale-Out NAS infrastructure using Gridstore Scale-out NAS. Deploying Gridstore enabled Wenatchee to eliminate server and…
"Excited," "nervous," "terrified"--just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally, the AFP…
At Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, hazing during homecoming week is quite the tradition. Older students pelt freshmen with paint and, sometimes, assault them, the Washington Post reports.
Utah's State Office of Education is concerned about the growing number of dropouts in the state's high schools, the largest percentage of which are Hispanic students, according to…