$150K for schools and teachers
Designed to advance educational opportunities with technology across K-12 schools nationwide, the winning schools, individuals, and “Best Teacher in America” will receive more than $150,000 in money and…
Month: February 2012
Chance to see STEM ideas come to life
Entrants are asked to dream up a cool invention idea that makes life more awesome and demonstrate how science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) can make their ideas…
$150K for education’s game-changers
The 2012 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education seeks to acknowledge current and emerging leaders who are developing new ideas to address the major challenges currently facing…
News Literacy Project helps students sort fact from fiction in the digital age
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a national educational program that taps experienced journalists to help middle and high school students “sort fact from fiction in the digital…
Microsoft sees future in Windows 8 amid iPad’s rise
Microsoft is scrambling to preserve what's left of its kingdom, and it’s pinning its hopes on a new version of Windows that could spawn a new breed of…
Survey: Wired world to be boon, bane for Generation Y
There is a good chance young people growing up in today's always-wired world will eventually become bright, nimble decision makers-if they don't wind up intellectual lightweights unable to…
Many students could skip remedial classes, studies find
Even as policymakers struggle to reform remedial-education requirements blamed for derailing the aspirations of countless community-college students, two new studies suggest that many of those students would do…
Minn. Senate allows schools to fire teachers based on performance
The Minnesota Senate passed a bill Monday that would let schools lay off teachers based on their performance in the classroom rather than by seniority alone, the Huffington…
Opinion: Are virtual academies better than traditional public schools?
Are virtual or e-schools better than traditional brick and mortar public schools? In many ways the answer would be a resounding yes, says Tara Dodrill for Yahoo! News.
Watch: Years later, teacher sends hundreds of birthday cards to former students
Lois Hayes, 66, may have retired from her career at an elementary school, but she hasn't forgotten her former students, the Huffington Post reports.