Think “Star Wars.” That’s how award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York frames her newest post on Year Two of New York’s controversial…
Stunned by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut, police and school officials in one Colorado county felt they had to do something to reassure students, the…
In a rundown Appalachian town, Deborah Hicks once dreamed of an education that would take her far away from the life she knew. She was a precocious little…
Despite the recent explosion in ed tech applications and services, adoption and use of data remains a significant challenge, says Christopher Dawson for ZDNet Education.
Federal officials have imposed sweeping changes designed to protect students’ online privacy … Publishers answer the call for more digital textbooks … Educators use popular video games as…
The ACT college admissions test overtook the SAT for the first time as the most popular college admissions exam by a margin of a few thousand students, the…
Under the Obama administration’s education policies, thousands of elementary and secondary schools are being held accountable for the academic performance of students who had been “invisible” under No…
Days before President Barack Obama outlines his agenda for the coming year, a think tank with close ties to the White House is outlining a plan that would…
With an overwhelming 25,000 educators participating in Digital Learning Day on Feb. 6, ed-tech supporters used technology-based projects, lessons, and enthusiasm to mark what they called a perfect…
Cheating on standardized tests in the District would be illegal under a bill introduced in the D.C. Council, and a teacher or principal found guilty of violating the…
Controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff," has enlisted action film star Steven Seagal to lead a training exercise for members of his…
California school districts have misspent tens of millions of dollars intended to provide subsidized meals to low-income students, according to a state Senate report released Wednesday, the Associated…
Students who are studying to become teachers use social media in their personal lives more frequently than in-service teachers do, and they want to use ed tech in…
Flunked, retained, held back. Whatever you call it, increasing numbers of states are not promoting students who are struggling to read at the end of third grade.
Presidential medals will be awarded posthumously to the six people who died protecting children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, officials said Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
Students in New York public schools can frolic in all the unprotected sex they want without fretting over the natural consequences, thanks to the largesse of the Bloomberg…
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