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Colleges awarded Presidential Honor for Community Service

March 13, 2012 by ESchool News Staff

The Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S. Department of Education honored the nation's leading colleges and universities, students, and faculty members, and staff for their…

Teaching Trends

Kmart Latina Smart Fund scholarship winners announced

March 13, 2012 by ESchool News Staff

Kmart announced the names of 2011 Latina Smart Fund scholarship recipients. The Latina Smart Fund was created in 2011 as a means to make higher education more accessible…

Teaching Trends

Esri selects winners of ArcGIS Online Grant Program for Educators

March 13, 2012 by ESchool News Staff

Esri has awarded five grants to select university and college faculty members to create exemplary higher education course materials and implementations of ArcGIS Online. Grantees receive $10,000 each,…

District Management

Florida rejects ‘Parent Trigger’ bill for failing schools

March 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Florida's state Senate narrowly killed a bill on Friday that would have allowed parents with children in failing public schools to leapfrog their local school boards and take…

District Management

Mass. panel backs school dropout age of 18

March 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Massachusetts high school students would be required to stay in school until age 18 under a bill approved Thursday by a legislative panel hoping to reduce the number…

Some teens start college work early via dual enrollment

March 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Senioritis is said to sap the energy, dull the mind, and waste the time of high school students. But some teens have found a cure for the blahs:…

District Management

School threatens to drop student from honor society for community service done at church

March 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology faces a federal lawsuit after reportedly threatening to drop a 17-year-old student from the National Honor Society after she…

District Management

Saudi women students boycott classes in rare protest

March 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Thousands of students at an all-female university in Saudi Arabia boycotted classes on Saturday, protesting against poor services, witnesses said, in a rare display of dissent from women…

District Management

Virtual schooling’s popularity challenges policy makers

March 13, 2012March 12, 2012 by By Nora Carr, APR, Fellow PRSA

With student enrollment increasing rapidly, virtual schooling is experiencing some growing pains. From high dropout rates to concerns about academic rigor, virtual schooling is generating a litany of…

Responsible electronics stewardship: A guide to purchasing and recycling equipment that makes the grade

November 6, 2013March 12, 2012 by By Steve Skurnac

Technology is essential to the modern classroom: computers, tablets, and eReaders give educators and students extraordinary access to interactive resources that connect, inform, inspire, and entertain. Unfortunately, technology…

District Management

eLearning event hotel and symposium registration now open

March 9, 2012 by Laura Ascione

Hotel and symposium registrations are now open for the eLearning Strategies Symposium. Recognizing the continued rise in online and blended ... Read more

District Management

Diane Ravitch to discuss perils, promise of technology at 2012 CUE Conference

March 9, 2012 by Laura Ascione

Diane Ravitch, historian of education at NYU, will speak on technology and its potential in education in her opening keynote ... Read more

District Management

NSBA 2012: Investing in today’s children

March 9, 2012 by From staff reports

The National School Boards Association celebrates its 72nd annual conference, April 21-23 in Boston, and attendees will be able to see first-hand how technology transforms learning and improves…

District Management

Opinion: Since when is being patriotic racist?

March 9, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

I am absolutely appalled a high school basketball team would be called out for a "U.S.A." chant. Being patriotic is not being insensitive. In fact, America needs more…

Community-oriented architecture in schools: How ‘extroverted’ design can impact learning and change the world

November 5, 2013March 9, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

You’ve considered every detail: re-thought the spatial configurations of the classrooms to account for over 40 students, ensured that the noise from outside doesn’t drown out the teacher,…

District Management

Florida prep school copes with shock and loss

March 9, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Stretching out along the banks of the St. John’s River, the Episcopal School of Jacksonville is where the city’s elite send their children for academic success steeped in…

Teaching & Learning

Okla. audit questions secret Education Dept. fund

March 9, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Some former officials of the Oklahoma's Department of Education used secret bank accounts to spend more than $2 million on such things as beer, wine, food and entertainment…

District Management

Parent-teacher ‘school governance council’ requirement divides Connecticut, New Haven

March 9, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

In a dispute that will determine whether New Haven must overhaul the way it engages parents, Superintendent Reggie Mayo said he was "shocked" to find out that the…

District Management

How can research inform ed-tech decisions?

March 12, 2012March 9, 2012 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

Education stakeholders often ask for research to justify ed-tech purchases. But instead of using research to rationalize a large-scale, expensive purchase, school leaders first should identify the problem…

District Management

Survey: Teacher morale at its lowest in decades

March 9, 2012March 8, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

Teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades, but parent engagement with their schools has increased, according to the MetLife Survey of the…

District Management

Cash-poor schools raid rivals in bid to boost student rosters

March 8, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

As American public school administrators look to bring in more money by recruiting students overseas, they are also hunting closer to home-hoping to poach pupils from rival schools…

Gruesome assignment spells termination for D.C. teacher

March 8, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

A math assignment that required students to figure out how many Africans, Americans, and Indians to bake in ovens for Thanksgiving was a recipe for termination for a…

District Management

Utah lawmakers pass bill to curb sex education in schools

March 8, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Utah would become the first state to ban public schools from teaching contraception as a way of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases under a bill given final…

District Management

Arizona House votes to repeal gun-free school zones

March 8, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives has voted to repeal the state's gun-free school zone laws, setting up a potential battle that only Gov. Jan Brewer (R) may…

District Management

Justice Dept. may sue Apple, publishers on eBook pricing

March 8, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of…

Apple unveils new iPad with sharper screen

March 8, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

Apple Inc. has given the latest version of its iPad tablet several new features but no new name. And in a move that could prove useful for schools,…

District Management

How to rekindle a love of learning in school

March 24, 2012March 8, 2012 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

What would a high school classroom look like if the students were all like kindergartners, eagerly learning everything they could about the world? What makes this idea seem…

Teaching Trends

Online tool helps teachers evaluate open educational resources

March 7, 2012 by Jeff Festa

While free resources for teaching and learning can be found all over the internet, it's often hard to assess the quality of a resource or whether it aligns…

District Management

Watch: South Carolina high school dropouts could lose driver’s licenses under new bill

March 7, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Playing hooky? Fine, but South Carolina students shouldn't expect to be doing it while cruising around town, the Huffington Post reports.

Feds buying 7 million pounds of ‘pink slime’ for school lunches

March 7, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Pink slime--that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade--may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King, but is being brought in…

New iPad expected with faster chip, sharper screen

March 7, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Apple is holding an event Wednesday in San Francisco, and has hinted that it will reveal a new iPad model, the Associated Press reports.

District Management

California schools establish ‘early warning system’ to identify potential dropouts

March 7, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Some school districts in California are working to establish an "early warning system" to identify middle grade students who are at risk of dropping out, and then to…

Groups expand access to open educational resources

November 5, 2013March 7, 2012 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

As educators push for more and better access to open educational resources (OER), or content that is available free of charge online, new efforts are helping classroom teachers…

eClassroom News

Children’s publisher developing app for eReading

March 7, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

A leading publisher of children's books is taking a big step into the electronic market: Scholastic Inc. is developing an app called Storia, which includes around 1,300 eBooks…

When school fights land on YouTube

March 6, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

In an era of ubiquitous social networking, adolescent cruelty is more enduring than ever, reports the Washington Post.

Report: Minority students face harsher punishments

March 6, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to a report to be released March…

District Management

Verizon launches wireless broadband for homes

March 6, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Verizon Wireless has announced a version of its wireless broadband service that's designed for use in rural and remote homes that can't get DSL or cable, the Associated…

Teaching & Learning

Minn. school district settles bullying lawsuits

March 6, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Minnesota's largest school district on March 5 voted to settle a pair of lawsuits over a policy that was criticized for failing to protect gay students from bullying,…

District Management

Plato Learning to buy Archipelago for $291M

March 6, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Plato Learning is buying Archipelago Learning Inc., which sells subscriptions to the online test-prep service Study Island, for about $291 million in cash as the education software maker…

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