Most American teens may see a pool as a chance for a swim or lazy summer relaxation, but one group of California high school students envisions swimming pools…
The challenges facing the well-to-do New York City parent never end! If it's not combating the trials of having a child born in the summer, it's dealing with…
Lou Pugliese, CEO of Moodlerooms, said Blackboard’s purchase of his company and another firm that hosts and supports the popular open-source learning management system (LMS) Moodle should be…
When the Harry Potter books finally went on sale in electronic form on March 27, it was as if Harry himself had cast the "Alohomora" spell on them—the…
The educational leadership organization ASCD (formerly known as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) has teamed up with Pearson to launch a new online school leadership program,…
Following a media firestorm prompted by outcry from parents and students at schools in Chicago's Noble Street Charter Network, Illinois legislators are now considering a bill that would…
Should the rich fix failing schools by donating more money? Should moms keep better tabs on their kids? Eighth-graders debated those solutions to the achievement gap—as part of…
With the proliferation of social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, graduate school applicants can gain unfiltered insights on graduate school life, U.S. News reports.
The largest charter school network in the United States is operated by people in and associated with the Gulen Movement (GM), a secretive and controversial Turkish religious sect,…
After an online petition and calls from celebrities failed to change the minds of the motion picture ratings board, the Weinstein Co. is moving past the "R" rating…
Flipped learning has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures…
In an earlier post, I made a case for taking a broader perspective about the causes of U.S. school learning challenges, rather than simply focusing on its teachers,…
Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting classes, the city's education secretary said Thursday,…
High school students today are reading books intended for children with reading levels far below those appropriate for teens, according to a recent report, the Huffington Post reports.
Students using the computers at Camdenton High School here in central Missouri have been able to access the Web sites for Exodus International, as well as People Can…
Difficult. Clunky. Frustrating. Those were three words often used by administrators, teachers, and staff to describe our previous data warehouse. Because the system was complicated, people didn’t use…
The editors of eSchool Media have logged thousands of miles covering various ed-tech trade shows since the start of the year, from Florida and Texas to Washington, D.C.…
Apple recently made a splash when it unveiled its iBookstore, featuring digital textbooks for high school math and science education from McGraw-Hill and others. Now, Discovery Education has…
Software designed for touch-screen tablets, and new programs for teaching reading and math, were among the many products unveiled at recent ed-tech conferences. Some providers of curriculum software…
As more schools make the shift to a digital-based teaching and learning environment, a number of new products and services have emerged to help ease this transition.
For many of the companies exhibiting at recent educational technology conferences, a key selling point was how their software or services could help schools save money during a…
School audio-visual solutions seem to be converging, with major suppliers of AV products releasing their own versions of solutions offered ... Read more
Possibly the most awesomely geeky thing in history: a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator, constructed in the garage by a bunch of Bay Area high school kids, funded…
A New York school district acted properly in suspending a 10-year-old boy who during a class exercise wrote in crayon that he wanted to "blow up the school…
Science experiments devised by teenage students, one from Egypt and two from the United States, will be conducted in space as part of a move by YouTube and…
At Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School, students are taught lessons every week in a combination of Spanish, English and Mandarin, California Watch reports.