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Teaching Trends

Funding for education and special education

March 15, 2011 by ESchool News Staff

The central purpose of the Institute's research grant programs is to provide parents, educators, students, researchers, policymakers, and the general public with reliable and valid information about education…

Teaching Trends

Free classroom robotics sets

March 15, 2011 by ESchool News Staff

To mark the unveiling of the RoboRescue Challenge, Pitsco Education is awarding eight event sets valued at $800 each: four to participating teams in each of the two…

Teaching Trends

Classroom books and prizes for participation in vocabulary webcast

March 15, 2011 by ESchool News Staff

The WordGirl Definition Competition from Scholastic is a way to engage your students with vocabulary words in an entertaining and interactive context. During the 30-minute, live webcast, students…

Teaching Trends

Student leaders needed for community projects

March 15, 2011 by ESchool News Staff

Thirty students, ages 17-20, from across the United States and Canada comprise the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. They are charged with helping State Farm design and implement…

As library eBooks live long, publisher sets expiration date

March 15, 2011 by Laura Ascione

The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an eBook — is the subject of a fresh and furious debate in the publishing world,…

District Management

Today decides fate of emergency financial manager bill

March 15, 2011 by Laura Ascione

Legislation that would give broad new powers to emergency managers appointed to guide financially struggling cities and schools in Michigan is close to becoming law, reports ClickOnDetroit.com. The…

Threats to traveling data

March 15, 2011 by Laura Ascione

With small and fast laptops, powerful smartphones, tablets and readily available Wi-Fi, working on the road — on planes, in airports and hotel rooms — has never been…

AT&T puts broadband users on monthly allowance

March 15, 2011 by Laura Ascione

AT&T broadband users will soon face a cap on the amount of internet data they can download a month, Wired reports. Traditional DSL users will be capped at…

District Management

Hewlett-Packard hikes dividend, outlines strategy

March 15, 2011 by Laura Ascione

Hewlett-Packard Co. says it plans to increase its dividend for the first time in over a decade and one day soon sell "cloud computing" services to the public,…

District Management

How to handle campus crises in the digital age

March 15, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Pepperdine University President Andrew Benton told higher-education officials March 7 in Washington, D.C. that they should be wary of contact with journalists covering campus emergencies such as fires…

Boosting Math Skills Through Personalized Instruction

Software helps personalize math instruction

April 25, 2011March 14, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor

K-12 math instruction is undergoing fundamental changes as individualized adaptive learning programs combine with lessons meant to keep students of all ages engaged and interested.

District Management

Obama pushing Congress on fixing education law

March 14, 2011 by Laura Ascione

President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to rewrite the nation's governing education law in time for a new school year next fall, the Associated Press reports. It's…

District Management

March Madness: Which team is smartest?

March 14, 2011 by Laura Ascione

As the NCAA college basketball tournament kicks off, The Daily Beast ranks all 68 teams based on their grades and graduation rates, from first to worst. The sports…

District Management

Computer science courses use mobile apps to make coursework relevant

March 14, 2011 by Laura Ascione

A Virginia Tech software engineering class in 2009 was discussing world problems and how computer science might offer solutions when a student piped up with a personal gripe,…

District Management

It came from their lab. But how to take it to the bank?

March 14, 2011 by Laura Ascione

There are a lot of smart people in universities. Some may even be geniuses. Many of them are certainly good at inventing technologies that will change our lives,…

District Management

$1.5M grant jump-starts teacher development

April 22, 2012March 11, 2011 by By Jennifer Nastu, Contributing Editor

Tutor.com, which connects students with live tutors online for tutoring in math, science, social studies, and English, is the largest online tutoring and homework help service available—and, with…

District Management

Small campuses focus on retaining students with the help of technology

August 10, 2012March 11, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

An Arizona community college and a New York campus with 1,000 students are using technology embraced by large research universities to stem alarming drops in student retention, especially…

District Management

Thousands gather for Ind. Statehouse union rally

March 11, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Union workers, teachers, lawmakers and labor organizers said at a huge Statehouse rally Thursday that Indiana Republicans and GOP leaders nationwide have gone too far in pushing an…

District Management

Cuts to Head Start show challenge of fiscal restraint

March 11, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

The difficulty Senate Republicans faced voting this week for a bill full of spending cuts is best illustrated on the home page for the Alaska Head Start program’s…

As competitors pop up, iPad keeps price advantage

March 11, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

The new iPad model hitting stores Friday comes with several improvements over the original version but the same price tag, hobbling efforts by rivals at breaking Apple Inc.'s…

District Management

Opinion: How Bill Gates misinterprets ed facts

March 11, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

According to Richard Rothstein for the Washington Post, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates authored an op-ed published in the Washington Post late last month, “How Teacher Development could Revolutionize…

District Management

LinkedIn launches social news site for professionals

November 5, 2013March 11, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

LinkedIn is unveiling another piece of its strategy to make LinkedIn a destination site for more than just job-seekers, with the launch of LinkedIn Today, reports ReadWriteWeb.

District Management

Fed rule could have ‘major chilling effect’ on online instruction

March 11, 2011March 11, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Colleges that offer online instruction nationwide would have to get approval from every state in which they operate, or those online courses could be shut down, after the…

District Management

Can GPS tracking devices help lower truancy rates?

March 11, 2011March 10, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor

Schools in the Anaheim Union High School District in California are the latest to try a novel way to improve attendance: monitoring students' whereabouts with GPS tracking devices.

5 ways to integrate technology into your child’s education

November 5, 2013March 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Most of us didn’t have today’s technology options when we were in school, so while parents realize technology has become an integral part of their child's education, they're…

District Management

Most public schools may miss targets, Education Secretary says

March 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

More than 80,000 of the nation’s 100,000 public schools could be labeled as failing under No Child Left Behind, the main federal law on public education, Secretary of…

District Management

Kansas schools try separate lunches for sexes

March 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Middle school lunch periods can be a free-for-all of teasing, rough-housing and flirting among boys and girls trying to impress or intimidate, Reuters reports.

District Management

Memphis voters OK city schools merger with county

March 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

City voters chose Tuesday to dissolve the Memphis school system and force the county--whose students are accustomed to much more success in the wealthier suburbs--to take over its…

Half the game is mental; So is the other half

March 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

The students memorize all they can, usually in 15-minute stretches of tedious silence, reports the New York Times.

District Management

Wis. GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining

March 10, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

At least two dozen protesters spent the night just outside the Wisconsin state Assembly chamber in anticipation of a late Thursday morning vote on explosive union rights legislation…

Featured Funding News

Schools to get $9M for off-campus wireless access

April 5, 2012March 10, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

Government officials are handing out $9 million for projects that will help schools extend wireless internet connections beyond the classroom.

District Management

Obama highlights $90M ed-tech agency

November 5, 2013March 9, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

Educational technology advocates applauded President Obama’s focus on college and career readiness and his call for a new federal agency devoted to ed-tech innovations, which he expanded on…

Teaching Trends

Arcademic Skill Builders releases free educational video games

October 10, 2013March 9, 2011 by Jeff Festa

Arcademic Skill Builders, a free online resource that began as a side project at the University of Kansas' School of Education, has released 40 web-based video games that…

District Management

Obama to GOP: Don’t cut education spending

March 9, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

Placing a limit on his own willingness to slice spending, President Barack Obama issued a not-too-veiled warning at Republican budget cutters Tuesday and characterized any reductions in money…

District Management

Students learn the ethics of cell phone snapshots

March 9, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

A new cell phone photography class at a suburban Philadelphia university focuses on both the quality of the images and the ethical responsibilities that come with taking and…

Obamas take anti-bullying message to Facebook

March 9, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have posted a video on Facebook to promote a bullying prevention conference they'll host at the White House, reports the…

Tardy students get rude awakening with sunrise robo-calls

November 5, 2013March 9, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

Chronically tardy and truant high school students in Fall River, Massachusetts may think they're having a nightmare when they are aroused at sunrise on Wednesday by their principal's…

District Management

Idaho passes Republican bill to curb union rights

March 9, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

The Idaho state legislature approved a bill on Tuesday to strip public school teachers of many of their collective bargaining rights while protesters in five states rallied against…

District Management

Carole Hankin, Syosset Superintendent, takes home $500,000 in pay and perks

March 9, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

As the debate over education budget cuts escalates across the country, one New York Superintendent, Carole Hankin, has garnered attention for the amount of zeros on her paycheck,…

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