Group claims anti-bullying day promotes ‘homosexual agenda’
A conservative evangelical group is encouraging parents to boycott “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” on Oct. 30 by keeping their children home from school, the Huffington Post…
Month: October 2012
Project Lead The Way: Promoting engineering in schools
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Florida officials want more than $400M to expand digital learning
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Buick Achievers awards 1,100 scholarships nationwide
The Buick Achievers Scholarship Program, funded by the General Motors Foundation, today announced scholarships totaling approximately $4.2 million to 1,100 recipients during the NBC News Education Nation Summit…
Ed-tech firms shaping education policy
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Teaching for the Future: Steering girls to science
The pizza has been cleared away and the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls in Mawiayah Fields' classroom at South Shore School are ready to learn how to write…
Do Not Track? Advertisers say ‘Don’t tread on us’
Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla’s Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies to stop collecting…
Chicago schools chief out after run-ins with Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Nearly four weeks since the end of the first teachers strike in 25 years, and 17 months after being recruited from Rochester, N.Y., by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel…
Northern Virginia schools open; surging enrollment projected
Student enrollment in Fairfax County schools surged past 180,000 for the first time as classes resumed Tuesday, a development that poses major logistical and academic challenges for the…
Against accelerating the gifted child
A quarter of a million people have watched the premiere episode of the new YouTube show Prodigies, about 9-year-old Tanishq Abraham, the youngest student at American River College…
$175K for STEM teachers
These highly competitive fellowships are awarded to new teachers committed to teaching STEM in high schools nationwide.
Scholarships for game, puzzle design
Students will be challenged to come up with their own games for the MASTERMIND BrainTwister Challenge. Those can be puzzles, word problems or games with a solution or…
Grants for math study
The I CAN Learn Program, the only middle school math and algebra software to have received the U.S. Dept. of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse’s highest rating of “Positive…
Experts’ views about Obama and Romney on education
The Los Angeles Times compiled edited excerpts from telephone interviews and eMail exchanges with leading education analysts, writers and researchers regarding the policies and positions of the presidential…
What’s worth investing in? Criteria for choosing technology for learning
The promise of technology in the pursuit of learning is vast — and so are the profits, MindShift reports. The SIIA valued the ed-tech market at $7.5 billion.…
Crazy enough to work
It's a desktop. It's also a tablet, CNET reports. By slapping a battery inside a 20-inch touch-screen all-in-one to make the Sony Vaio Tap 20, the company has…
Apple iPad mini rumors hum along
Apple didn’t send out invitations for an iPad mini launch event on Oct. 10, as had been expected, but that’s been barely a hiccup in the rumor mill,…
Iowa education task force seeks higher teacher salaries
Officials at the Iowa Department of Education released 13 recommendations that include raising teacher pay and changing the way teachers move up through the teaching ranks, reports KCRG.com.…
Readers: Digital textbook implementation just a dream
According to readers, though digital textbooks sound good in theory, not all students would have access to these materials from home as well as school. Also, many schools…
Parents may be teaching teens to be bullies
When Wisconsin news anchor Jennifer Livingston was called fat by a viewer, she got a firsthand taste of the kind of bullying many high school students confront on…
Former teacher: Unions are bad for teachers
During my years as a teacher, I witnessed more harm than good as a result of the stranglehold my union had on the district where I worked. This…
Michigan school elects special needs homecoming king
Fall in high school means one thing perhaps more than others: football. And with football comes the ritual homecoming king and queen selections. In Linden, Michigan, a small…
Acer unveils Windows 8-powered Aspire V5 and M5 Ultrabooks with all-day battery life
With Windows 8′s launch quickly approaching, Acer (2353) is not going to rest on its laurels and the company announced two new Windows 8 notebook series on Thursday,…
Romney says hiring teachers won’t help the economy
Days after he declared that he wants to put "more teachers" in schools, Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama's plan to do just that, the Huffington Post reports.
Teachers make money selling materials online
Kristine Nannini spent her summer creating wall charts and student data sheets for her fifth grade class—and making $24,000 online by selling those same materials to other teachers.
Why a Scalable BYOD Access Strategy is Critical for K-12 Districts
School districts that adopt Bring Your Own Device programs can lower their overall cost of running IT, enable new ways ... Read more
Education Dept. helps teachers combat bullying
In recognition of Bullying Prevention Month this October, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has released a free, two-part training toolkit designed to reduce incidents of bullying, for…
Destiny Solutions awards scholarship to two non-traditional students
Moon Soe, 25, and Virginia Wilson, 58, have each been awarded a $2,500 scholarship as the 2012-2013 recipients of the Mary Cone Barrie Scholarship Award. The scholarship is…
Classroom portraits from around the world
Julian Germain began his "Classroom Portraits" series in northeast England in 2004, but the project's scope has since expanded globally, the Huffington Post reports.
Can Adderall fix bad schools?
Here's a modest proposal: Let's dose up kids stuck in low-income schools with Adderall, even if they don't have A.D.H.D, to compensate for the advantages enjoyed by kids…
Watch: Are Big Data approaches the answer to K12 educational pain points?
It seems to me that big corporations have it all figured out: They've been using business intelligence and data analytics for years to drive businesses. For schools, though,…
Could Rick Santorum be Romney’s Education Secretary pick?
As we hurtle toward Election Day, it's time to take a closer look at some of the more detailed repercussions of its potential outcomes, says the Huffington Post.
Md. students gather data for gas-drilling study
Some high school students in Frostburg, Md. are monitoring the quality of the area's drinking water in anticipation of natural gas drilling, the Associated Press reports.
Smart phones require smart communication strategies
With as many as 49 percent of all U.S. adults using smart phones, according to Nielsen reports, it’s time to get smart about school communications as well.
One-to-One Solutions: Where Are We Today?
School leaders are faced with deciding how best to make the transition to a digital learning environment. Will they provide ... Read more
Number of college applications affected by social media triples
College applicants shouldn’t shut down their various social media accounts, experts said, but they should heavily edit their online comments, photos, and videos, as thousands of applications were…
Nickelodeon TV says Romney skipped kids’ questions
Mitt Romney may want to reconsider his campaign strategy involving the pint-size voters of tomorrow, the Associated Press reports.
Survey: Romney’s education message in debate beat Obama’s
Most political and policy “insiders” are of the belief that the Chicago Teachers Union won last month’s strike, and that Gov. Mitt Romney out-performed President Barack Obama when…
Special education in the U.S. has a long way to go—here’s what schools can do about it
In 1965, Congress passed legislation that created a bureau to examine the problems facing special needs students in the nation’s public schools, TakePart reports.
Turnaround school takes history class to the streets
Students led their teachers out of school, onto a city bus, and to a housing complex they call “Skittles,” as they got a start rewriting a local history…