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…
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…
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 mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla’s Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies to stop collecting…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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