Recycling program for schools
The Coca-Cola Company and Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) today announced a call for entries for the newly expanded 2012 Coca-Cola Recycling Bin Grant Program, a program designed…
Month: January 2012
Tablets and more for elementary school students
This contest partners with PBS stations nationwide to encourage children grades K-3 in communities across the country to celebrate the power of creating stories and illustrations by submitting…
Free curriculum each week in February
This grant will award one school in need a 4th Edition Kelso’s Choice Conflict Management Skills curriculum kit each week in the month of February. Grant winners will…
Awards of up to $1,000
This contest is designed to inspire children to create their own KTP Day event. The theme of this year's contest is "Explore outdoors, the parks are yours!" which…
Awards for digital media skills
This award empowers youth from underserved communities with digital media skills so they can comment on their world, share their ideas and take action on issues that are…
$750K for social or environmental solutions
University students are invited to share their innovative ideas for solving a social or environmental problem and compete for $750,000 in prizes and awards.
$1K awards for medieval studies
This award recognizes excellence in designing and teaching lessons in medieval studies, including but not limited to such areas as history, literature, and art history, in K-12 schools.
$5K for dedicated teachers
The Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Awards Program honors teachers who have demonstrated their capacity to change the outcome of students’ lives and communities where they teach.
$500 for active students
New York Road Runners (NYRR) seeks to make running a part of every child's school day by providing free running programs and resources to schools and communities in…
Lenovo is inspiring students to Dream to DO great things – and helping schools with a chance to win a Technology Makeover valued at $50,000!
Enter the Lenovo DREAM TO DO CONTEST and help your school win!
What happens to the kids when charter schools fail?
Terri Griffin made herself a promise when her youngest daughter was ready for kindergarten: the little girl would never set foot in an Akron public school. Griffin, an…
School bans fuzzy boots used to hide cell phones
Singer Nancy Sinatra may have had boots made for walking, but she never attended Pottstown Middle School, Reuters reports.
Toddlers subjected to palm-reading assessments in China
Several kindergartens in a province in northern China are charging parents 1,200 yuan ($190) for a palm-reading test that they claim can predict their toddlers' intelligence and potential,…
Opinion: ‘Gilded Cage’ of bureaucracy affixes stereotypes to teachers
The Daily Caller reports a millionaire public school teacher in New York is keeping his lucrative paychecks and adding to his pension despite being kicked out of the…
Reading is not a race: The virtues of the ‘slow reading’ movement
Go to just about any elementary school in this country and you will see teachers with stopwatches assessing “nonsense word fluency,” says Thomas Newkirk, a former high school…
ED: States applying for NCLB waivers should do more to reach students
In its initial review of No Child Left Behind waiver requests, the U.S. Education Department highlighted a similar weakness in nearly every application: States did not do enough…
$3M gaming project could help spark STEM education
A $3 million Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant will help the MIT Education Arcade build a massively multiplayer online game to help high school students learn math…
Teacher: I won’t ‘teach and shut up’
I remember the moment I stopped resenting the deduction in my paychecks that went to my union. It took me three years, and happened suddenly, says Eric Shieh,…
Antioch College waiving tuition for students enrolling in next 3 years
Four years after Antioch College suspended operations due to financial problems, the private liberal arts institution in southwest Ohio is recharging its system by extending full scholarships to…
High school graduation: Four students discuss obstacles to success
Rafiat, 19, says that five years from now, she hopes to be “heading into my first year of getting my master’s degree.” She hasn’t always been as committed…
Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log
The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled…
Digital divides and the future of the Chicago Public Library
Wednesday it was announced that Chicago Public Library (CPL) commissioner Mary Dempsey is resigning, Gapers Block reports.
Homebound students use robot to continue learning from home
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Column: It’s time to strengthen the P-16 continuum
If we are to realize President Obama’s goal of leading the world in the percentage of citizens who are college graduates, we will need to break down the…
Teachers: Budgets block classroom technology access
Despite advances in digital learning tools and efforts to close the ed-tech access gap, school budgets remain one of the biggest barriers to classroom technology access, according to…
Obama unveils plan to stem rising college tuition costs
President Barack Obama is announcing a plan to shift some federal dollars away from colleges and universities that don’t control tuition costs and new competitions in higher education…
Opinion: Teachers should use social networks to inform, not socialize
On the question of students, teachers, and social networking, CNN's Schools of Thought blog posed this question on Jan. 20: Do you think there are more benefits or…
U.S. Department of Education announces teacher ambassador fellowship openings
The U.S. Department of Education announced its acceptance of 2012 Teaching Ambassador Fellows applications in a Jan. 23 post on its official blog, Homeroom, Yahoo! News reports.
Pentagon Robot Program: Government to help Bay Area students build tech gadgets
With an eye toward revolutionizing how defense systems and vehicles are made, the Pentagon has tapped a team of Bay Area-based scientists, engineers and hackers to create a…
Police arrest Utah students accused of school bomb plot
Police in Utah have arrested two high school students accused of making detailed plans to bomb a school assembly and then escape in a plane they planned to…
The most, least literate big U.S. cities
Washington, D.C., is the most literate big city in the United States, and Bakersfield, Calif., the least, in the newest annual rankings that consider factors including the population’s…
Inquiry-based approach to science a hit with students
John Scali’s class at Concord High School in Wilmington, Del., doesn’t look like your typical honors chemistry class.
Microsoft Imagine Cup grants awarded to students to help stimulate global change
Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the inaugural year of the Imagine Cup Grants program, a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs.
Teradata names Commitment to Caring award winners
Teradata, an analytic data solutions company, has named three individual associates, one team, and one office as 2011 Teradata Cares Celebration of Caring recipients for exemplary dedication to…
DemandTec crowns Retail Challenge winners
DemandTec, Inc., the collaborative analytics cloud for retailers and consumer products companies, announced that Kunal Sangani and Elliot Tan from Fayetteville-Manlius High School in Fayetteville, NY have won…
Kellogg’s and Action for Healthy Kids announce Share Your Breakfast grant recipients
Kellogg's and Action for Healthy Kids announced winners of nearly 100 Share Your Breakfast grants to schools across the country. Awarded for the 2011-2012 school year, the grants…
Five practices of effective principals
Strong leadership is essential to a positive school culture and student success, and effective principals use five key practices to ensure that their schools are successful, according to…
John Kline’s No Child Left Behind bills strike at values of Brown v. Board, coalition writes
A broad coalition of 38 civil rights, education reform and business groups sent House education chairman John Kline a scathing letter Wednesday, describing his No Child Left Behind…
Youth unlikely to pursue science, technology, engineering jobs, survey finds
Though President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address stressed the need for a competitive workforce, especially in more technical fields such as energy, young Americans see massive…
Watch: Parents demand school teach about ex-gay therapy
A group of conservative Christian parents are demanding Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District teach "ex-homosexual" therapy and "gay-related-immune deficiency" (or "GRID"), the Twin Cities Daily Planet reports.