College’s policy on troubled students raises questions
Many people had a glimpse of the deep delusions and festering anger of Jared L. Loughner, but none seemed in a better position to connect the dots than…
Year: 2011
Former student sues college over stay in a mental ward
At Brooklyn College, in 2008, Sophia Chinemerem Eze went to the security staff there, saying she had experienced problems with her off-campus roommates and suspected that her landlord…
Fifty free Samsung document cameras
Through this grant program, Samsung is looking to award a total of 50 Samsung SAMCAM 860 digital presenters to those schools who could best utilize a document camera…
Free classroom books for students
The Literacy Empowerment Foundation invites schools or other literacy projects to apply for FREE books for Read Across America Day. During the past year, LEF has distributed over…
$10K in scholarships for high school students
Students interested in participating should submit up to a 300 word essay answering the question: “Is technology critical to a live presentation? Or is it just a crutch?”…
$340,000 for science teachers
The Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence (AASTE) is an annual awards program that recognizes extraordinary contributions by K-12 educators across the United States and Canada who are…
Awards for organizations’ performance excellence
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. The award focuses on performance in…
Up to $25,000 for science and tech projects
The Christopher Columbus Awards is a national, community-based science and technology program for middle school students. The program challenges the students to work in teams of three to…
Up to $5,000 for early childhood development
Organizations with specific, identifiable needs primarily in these areas of support are urged to apply: early childhood education and development that is directly related to creativity, and technology…
$10K for teachers who integrate agriculture into lessons
The Realize Science Technology Grant for Agriculture in the Classroom will award $5,000 worth of cutting edge science education equipment to K-12 teachers across the U.S. this spring.…
$20,000 awards for supporting students studying psychological science
This program provides financial support for efforts aimed at improving the quality of education in psychological science and its application in the secondary schools. Proposals for programs must…
Ed tech vs. larger class sizes: Worth the trade-off?
Thrusting his state into the center of the debate over education reform, Idaho public schools chief Tom Luna called for more educational technology in the classroom and a…
Game-show challenge puts artificial intelligence to the test
Artificial intelligence is about to be put to the test in a trial that could reveal just how far researchers have come in designing computers that can “think”…
Adaptive learning tool helps spur individual success
Undergraduate professors employ myriad techniques to motivate their students to arrive prepared for active discussion. Despite our efforts, students often fall well short of our preparation expectations and…
States’ rights and states’ wrongs on school reform
We shouldn't lionize states when they're too often failing to fix our schools, Time reports
Governor thrusts New Jersey to fore on education
Gov. Chris Christie’s tough-on-schools approach in a state that has zealously protected its public schools--and its teachers--has already put him at loggerheads with legislative leaders, unions and some…
Putting the APP in Apple: Does Apple own ‘app store’?
Apple (AAPL) iPhone may “own” the smartphone market by virtue of being the market leader in sales. And it may “own” the app market because hundreds of thousands…
PCs sales in 2010: Tale of the tablet
The story of the personal computer industry in the second half of 2010 could well be called "The Tale of the Tablet," the Associated Press.
Facebook to start sharing AMBER Alerts
Facebook has teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Department of Justice and the Virginia State Police to make it easier to spread…
Report shows high school graduates enter college unprepared
High school students should be exposed to college-level courses early on, and they should learn in technology-rich classrooms that redesign the learning process to emphasize problem-solving, critical thinking,…
New resource gives teachers free access to educational tools
Teachers are faced with daily challenges like: What standards am I required to teach? Where can I find quality education resources? How do I implement these resources in…
Poll: Value-added model for teachers
The so-called value-added model is an “imperfect, but still informative” measure of teacher effectiveness, especially when it is combined with ... Read more
Verizon to start selling iPhone on Feb. 10
Verizon Wireless made the long-awaited announcement Tuesday that it will start selling a version of the iPhone 4 on Feb. 10, giving U.S. iPhone buyers a choice of…
Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy
The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And…
NY archdiocese to close 27 schools, saving $10M
The Archdiocese of New York says 27 Catholic schools that received heavy subsidies due to declining enrollment will close at the end of the current academic year, the…
Editorial: Too many education cooks
For the two decades that California has had a secretary of education, the position has never made much sense. Appointed by the governor, with a staff of a…
College help-desk services lagging in tech use
University help-desk services need a technological makeover, according to a recent report that shows students and faculty at seven out of 10 schools can’t hold online chats with…
At one school, a push for more play time
Some kindergarten parents at Public School 101, a graceful brick castle in Forest Hills, Queens, wanted more free play time for their children; so they decided to do…
Should student test scores be used to evaluate teachers?
The so-called value-added model is an “imperfect, but still informative” measure of teacher effectiveness, especially when it is combined with other measures, according to the preliminary results of…
For minorities, new ‘digital divide’ seen
When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began…
Worst products of CES 2011
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show was full of game-changing technology--think Verizon's 4G LTE network and Motorola's Atrix smartphone--but there were more than a few tech flops as well,…
Obama’s internet plan sounds an awful lot like a national internet ID
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announce to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research on Friday that President Obama intended to turn over development of a national…
Red flags at a college, but tied hands
Jared L. Loughner is accused of trying to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona on Saturday, reports the New York Times.
60 first graders, 4 teachers, one loud new way to learn
Instead of assigning one teacher to roughly 25 children, the New American Academy began the school year with four teachers in large, open classrooms of 60 students, reports…
RI school district that fired teachers wins $1.3M
A Rhode Island school district that fired all the teachers at an underperforming high school has been awarded $1.3 million to continue its reform process, the Associated Press…
‘Whitewashing’ of literary classics paints controversy
The internet is abuzz with reaction to a publisher’s controversial decision to replace the N-word with "slave" in Mark Twain's classic novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in an…
Faster, cheaper color printing coming soon
For a long time, the two choices in desktop printers have been inkjet and laser. This year, a significant twist on the inkjet is hitting the market and…
Six girls arrested for Facebook invitation to attack a teacher
Six girls have been arrested in connection with a Facebook invitation to take part in what the poster called “Attack a Teacher Day” at two Nevada middle schools.
Fire rips through West Philadelphia charter school
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a five-alarm fire that raged for more than an hour and a half early Sunday caused "substantial" damage to the 400-student Global Leadership…
Rift in Arizona as Latino class is found illegal
Classes in the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American program have been declared illegal by the State of Arizona — even while similar programs for black, Asian and American…