Month: September 2013
Is it time to redefine “gifted and talented”?
Manhattan mom Heather McFadden is grateful that entrance into the prized New York City Gifted and Talented program has worked out for her two kids, Mind/Shift reports.
Go ahead and freak out about the school with no books
The Atlantic Wire reports that an all-digital school means no more books, no more heavy backpacks full of textbooks, and no more lockers to store those books.
Should public libraries be welcoming homes for ingenuity?
Public libraries are about books, right? Yes, books, PCWorld reports.
Expecting the best yields results in Massachusetts
Conventional wisdom and popular perception hold that American students are falling further and further behind in science and math achievement. The statistics from this state tell a different…
How engineering is moving up in science classes
After two years, the final Next Generation Science Standards arrived in April, and along with a focus on rigor and real-world application, the standards include a focus on…
App of the week: Tales2Go
Tales2Go is a kids' mobile audiobook service that gives teachers and parents unlimited access to thousands of name-brand audio titles from publishers and storytellers.
SC online schools fear becoming “dumping ground’
Leaders of the state’s charter school district fear its fledgling online schools are becoming a “dumping ground” for the state’s most at-risk students, The State reports.
Science, brains, & learning languages
We’ve known for several decades that there is a critical period for learning language: children are more likely to reach native (or native-like) fluency in language(s) that they…
No child left untableted
The New York Times reports: Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don’t want this thing…
Technology will not replace teachers
There, I said it, Karen Cator writes on LinkedIn. And with these words, I am jumping with both feet into a debate that has alternately raged and simmered…
A State-By-State Look at Top Ed-Tech Initiatives
Sometimes, an ed-tech initiative grabs national headlines. Other times, a technology initiative quietly spreads throughout a school building or district as it connects teachers with mentors, helps administrators…
INFOGRAPHIC: Readers’ poll results
As part of eSchool News' mission to engage our readers with current hot-button topics in education, eSN editors are including polls in most of our daily stories. From…
What is America’s broadband agenda?
The Huffington Post reports that as the birthplace of the internet, there are those who continuously clamor for the United States to be "Number One" when it comes…
Loud voice fighting tide of new trend in education
Diane Ravitch made her name in the 1970s as a historian chronicling the role of public schools in American social mobility, The New York Times reports.
Report: Race to the Top isn’t delivering big results
The Obama administration’s signature education initiative, Race to the Top, can’t deliver much educational improvement in America’s public schools because there is a huge mismatch in its mandates…
Intel Foundation: Changing attitudes is key in STEM education
Several studies have reported that during the next 10 years, there will be millions of open jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields – also known as…
The best tweets of the week for education
Here are the education-related tweets that we found most enlightening, helpful, or interesting this week.
Tablets for education: Fewer iPads?
As more tablets emerge in the ed-tech marketplace, including Intel's new education-focused tablets designed with science inquiry and online collaboration in mind, tablet users are moving into two…
Sequester hits special education like a ‘ton of bricks’
Since the first day of class for most schools in Michigan last week, Marcie Lipsitt’s phone has been ringing nonstop with parents distraught about cuts to their children’s…