Gone are the days of traditional school pen pals and classrooms mailing packages back and forth—today’s students and teachers are using ed-tech to have virtual conversations with classrooms…
Weiling Zhang, a sophomore at the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, yearned to communicate with more conviction and verve than her peers back home — the “American way,” she…
When the sense of personal competition has gone, when time has passed, the memories become more acute and more accurate, CNET reports. During Bill Gates' interview Sunday night…
Wisconsin's budget surplus grew by $500 million Thursday, leading to a bipartisan call by state lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to put some of the money toward public…
For some years now, teachers and parents have noted something about boys and girls. Starting in elementary school, young girls often score better on reading and math tests…
In a move that will surprise precisely no one who's been paying attention to the state of streaming media, YouTube announced a pilot program that will herald a…
ISTE 2013 kicks off on June 23 in San Antonio, and this year's conference promises informative and interactive sessions on mobile devices, digital learning tools and strategies, the…
We don’t know about you, but sometimes the eSchool News editors are amazed to hear about the ed-tech students use to learn in schools these days: mobile gaming…
The flipped classroom is an education trend that has generated a lot of buzz, but some educators have struggled to create or find videos that are both short…
Creating social networks to help kids share books. Data-mining to pinpoint potential dropouts from online courses. Sending digital "nudges" about good study habits to the smartphones of college…
The Atlantic reports that the recent public school test-cheating scandals in Atlanta and Washington D.C. are insidious not only in their impact on their own communities, but also…
What does it take to be an effective school leader, and how can school principals best support teaching and learning in their buildings? A new video series, built…
There’s been a lot of talk lately of college- and career-readiness for high-school graduates, but according to a study released Tuesday, what community colleges actually require is less…