Nine templates to help educators leverage school data
Educators and administrators are collecting an enormous amount of data about the progress of their students and schools. Now that this information has been collected, how can it…
Month: January 2013
Online classes target high school dropouts
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eSchool News January 2013
• Lawsuit targets 'locator' chips in student IDs • Comparing the leading classroom observation tools • How to help today's wired students learn to focus • Schools eye…
eSchool News – November/December 2012
• Duncan: Make textbooks 'obsolete' • Wireless experts: Time to move beyond the device • Special Feature: How to make BYOD work for your schools • Our annual…
How school design heavily affects students
Great teachers, stable families and a school's location have long been said to be key to student success. But a new study out of the United Kingdom suggests…
Bill to help foster youths with school records
Federal lawmakers have passed a bill that will give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve dismal education outcomes for foster children, the…
Ontario Liberals impose contracts on teachers; unions call it ‘disgraceful’
Students across Ontario face more uncertainty when they head back to class next week, after the province's cash-strapped Liberals outraged unions by forcing two-year contracts on 126,000 public…
Which universities are more highly ranked by high school counselors than by colleges officials?
Do high school counselors and college officials view universities differently? To answer this question, U.S. News is publishing a first-ever analysis of colleges in our National Universities rankings…
Commission recommends core changes to education
Students seeking admission to SUNY schools of education should be required to have grade-point averages of at least 3.0, with the aim of boosting teacher quality, a blue-ribbon…
Four key parts of successful online education programs
Progress monitoring tools and proper training in online teaching are critical factors in supporting and sustaining successful online education programs, according to a survey of school leaders.
Schools embrace graphic novels as learning tool
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The science of the sudden school turnaround
New research helps to unveil the science of the school turnaround, revealing that improving schools dramatically isn’t about working miracles—it’s about having the right tools and the right…
Encourage greater interaction and engagement with classroom management software
NetSupport School is a classroom management software program that gives teachers the ability to instruct and visually or audibly monitor, as well as interact with, their students—either individually,…
What U.S. schools can learn from Russia
There is a tendency to beat up on our public schools based on the performance of American students on international tests. The impression that is created is that…
Share With 911: Empowering the school community to keep kids safe
Sharewith911 may just be the best solution I've seen for improving school safety, says Christopher Dawson for ZDNet Education.
An idea promised the sky, but India is still waiting
The idea was, and still is, captivating: in 2011, the Indian government and two Indian-born tech entrepreneurs unveiled a $50 tablet computer, to be built in India with…
Column: Why schools used to be better
It’s one of the ironies of education reform that despite wave after wave, schools are seen by many as in worse shape as before all the changes, says…
Report: Apple testing new iPhone, iOS 7
Apple Inc has started testing a new iPhone and the next version of its iOS software, news website the Next Web reported.
Teaching compassion: Education and volunteerism around the world
While many people believe that kids these days are lazy and self-obsessed, there is reason to believe that they are becoming increasingly empathetic and altruistic, the Huffington Post…
Student video documentary competition
C-SPAN's StudentCam is an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think seriously about issues that affect our communities and our nation. Students are asked to…