By Georgia Mariani, Author at eSchool News

10 tips for success with analytics, information management, and reporting projects

November 6, 2013November 29, 2012 by By Georgia Mariani

Launching information management, reporting, and analytics systems can be difficult. Sustaining them – and creating enthusiastic users – is even trickier. In a series of interviews, technology leaders…

District Management

How the government can drive school innovation

November 16, 2012 by By Michael Horn

Most of the funding and decision-making around education in this country occur at the state and local levels. The federal government has limited ability to effect change. That…

Curriculum

Driven to distraction: How to help wired students learn to focus

November 13, 2012November 13, 2012 by By Larry Rosen

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District Management

How applicants would change the eRate, if they could

November 12, 2012November 2, 2012 by By Brian Stephens

Sensing that demand for eRate funding would continue to outpace available funding nearly 2 to 1, last spring Funds For Learning set out to gather the perceptions, predictions,…

District Management

Social learning networks promote student engagement, global awareness

November 6, 2013November 1, 2012 by By Troy Tenhet

One of the goals of a social studies curriculum is to ensure that students are aware of different cultures and geographies—including how these are similar to or different…

Curriculum

Teachers: Involve parents in the flipped classroom, too

March 11, 2014October 26, 2012 by By Graham Johnson

At the beginning of each semester I spend time speaking to my students about what the flipped classroom is: a significant change over the way students have previously…

Best Practices in School Technology: Winter 2013

Data: It’s more than test scores

January 24, 2014October 25, 2012 by By Jennifer Medbery

It’s pretty common these days to hear the term “data-driven decision-making” in education and assume it is synonymous with standardized test scores. But we all know that students…

Best Practices in School Technology: Winter 2013

Making gains with real-world science connections

November 6, 2013October 8, 2012 by By Noe Granado and Seth R. Hawkins

Helping middle school students grasp abstract science concepts can be a challenge. Many times, when we teach something in class, students have nothing to relate it to in…

Best Practices in School Technology: Winter 2013

How to have assessment without testing—and without losing valuable instructional time

November 6, 2013September 26, 2012 by By Chiae Byun-Kitayama

Most educators can agree that frequent progress monitoring is critical to achieving a data-driven culture. However, under my direction at Cahuenga Elementary School in Los Angeles, we employed…

District Management

Education is a public good, not a commodity

September 5, 2012 by By Christopher Malone

Education is the great equalizer, the bedrock of the American Dream. Despite the highest levels of income disparity since the Great Depression, at a time when the personal…

District Management

Romney calls for smaller federal role in education

September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 by By Michael Coulter

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has offered a program of education policy goals that calls for a smaller federal role in both K-12 and higher education, modifying but…

District Management

Tired of the same old professional development? Try Edcamps

January 8, 2014August 31, 2012 by By Michelle Luhtala

As educators gear up for a new school year, they’ll be doing some learning of their own in professional development workshops and sessions. Unfortunately, district and school-based professional…

Helping Students Learn with Reliable Wireless Connectivity

Public-private partnership transforms school bus into mobile learning lab

November 6, 2013August 14, 2012 by By Thelma Jarrett

With nearly 500,000 school buses transporting students daily in this country, one in particular stands out at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. Instead of the familiar…

District Management

Delaware bans colleges from requiring students’ social media passwords

August 9, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Should a university be able to edit a student’s Facebook profile or check his private tweets? Absolutely not, said the Delaware state legislature, as it recently passed the…

District Management

ACT to launch college and career testing for elementary school students

June 12, 2014August 3, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Standardized testing is under increasing scrutiny, as proponents tout its potential for bringing accountability to education while opponents deride it as misguided and exhausting. How much testing is…

District Management

Five key roles for 21st-century school librarians

August 6, 2012August 2, 2012 by By Michelle Luhtala

Given the unprecedented quantity of information learners are exposed to, the librarian’s role is more important than ever. Librarians help all students gain access to, evaluate, ethically use,…

Curriculum

How one California school uses iPads to support its PE programs

November 6, 2013August 1, 2012 by By Danielle Cherry

By combining SPARK’s movement-based curriculum with the user-friendly iPad, our PE department has been able to work more efficiently and effectively during a time when budget cuts and…

District Management

Veteran superintendent brings turnaround model to schools nationwide

August 1, 2012July 31, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Can turnaround results in one troubled school district be replicated in another? A new partnership between an education intervention provider ... Read more

District Management

New ed-tech service aims to boost parent engagement

November 5, 2013July 30, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

A simple text message could clue in parents to the perfect conversation starters with their kids: The Parent Connection, a new feature of Channel One News InterActiv (C1Ni),…

STEM & STEAM

New math software targets ‘perceptual learning’

November 5, 2013July 24, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

As schools struggle to balance conceptual learning and recall of simple facts, a new series of online math education products proposes a different focus: pattern recognition.

District Management

New online safety curriculum helps schools document CIPA compliance

November 12, 2012July 20, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Starting this month, schools receiving federal e-Rate funding must have updated internet safety policies that show how they will educate minors about appropriate online behavior. Now, a new…

Getting the Most out of Your Ed-Tech Investment

To support ed tech, schools need to rethink budgets, infrastructure

January 4, 2013July 17, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

As schools seek to provide more interactive, engaging, and personalized learning, newly released survey results reveal they need to radically ... Read more

District Management

Virtual foreign exchange program will give students global skills

July 17, 2012July 16, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Today’s students need to prepare for a globalized world, business leaders often say—but sending students abroad is usually too expensive for cash-strapped schools or parents. One Michigan school…

District Management

How Twitter can be used as a powerful educational tool

November 5, 2013July 13, 2012 by By Alan November and Brian Mull

Think Twitter is just a waste of time? Think again. Its organizational structure makes it an effective tool for connecting with students and others online.

District Management

New program prepares educators for blended learning

August 7, 2014July 11, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Many brick-and-mortar schools want to incorporate more online instruction—but how should teachers prepare for the newly popular blended classroom? An update to a national certification program for educators…

District Management

Column: Why our kids hate math

July 10, 2012July 10, 2012 by By Patrick Welsh, USA Today

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Curriculum

New course is like traffic school for sexting

July 10, 2012July 9, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Students who send explicit photos on their cell phones wouldn’t have to be branded as sex offenders, if a new curriculum developed by Yahoo! Inc. catches on.

Choosing the Right Devices for Your Schools

Seven iPad alternatives for schools

March 4, 2014July 6, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

With their interactive touch screens, easy portability, and quick boot-up time, tablets are increasingly becoming schools’ classroom computers of choice. And while many schools have invested in Apple’s…

Curriculum

Project to evaluate use of tablets in schools

June 29, 2012June 28, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Tablets—with their lightweight portability and interactive touch screens—have been hailed as the next “must have” as schools move toward mobile computing. But questions linger: How much network access…

District Management

District ‘Race to the Top’ rules spur mixed reaction

June 28, 2012June 27, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Proposed guidelines for school districts to vie for $400 million in new federal grants have elicited mixed reaction from education groups—from concern among ed-tech groups over how “personalized…

IT Management

‘Data center in a box’ could ease virtual computing

November 5, 2013June 18, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

A new disruptive technology aims to help schools cut costs and streamline the deployment of virtual computing by combining servers, storage, and virtualization in a single box.

District Management

Ed-tech leaders schooled on interoperability standards

November 5, 2013June 14, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

When school technology directors purchase an innovative product from one vendor and an exciting upgrade from another vendor, schools can find themselves in a tangle of incompatible formats.…

District Management

Computerized searches help identify non-resident students

November 5, 2013June 11, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

“Boundary hoppers”—parents who falsify their residency so their children can attend a particular school—can strain already cash-strapped districts. Now, a new technology-based solution claims it can help.

District Management

Three ways to improve your college’s recruitment program

November 5, 2013June 7, 2012 by By Todd Gibby

In today’s competitive climate, institutions face a significant conundrum: the need to simultaneously increase student enrollment and reduce student recruitment costs. This challenge has motivated institutions to stretch…

IT Management

New concussion-management service targets schools

November 5, 2013June 1, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

Sports concussions have captured public attention in recent years, with high-profile NFL players and other professional athletes stepping forward about the long-term effects of sports-related head injuries. Now,…

District Management

The truth about flipped learning

March 11, 2014May 31, 2012 by By Aaron Sams and Brian Bennett

A flipped classroom is all about watching videos at home and then doing worksheets in class, right? Wrong!

District Management

Why teacher merit pay can’t work today–and what can be done about this

May 31, 2012May 29, 2012 by By Seth Rosenblatt

When asked why it’s so hard to pay public employees based on their merit, you often hear a number of answers. Some point to union resistance, while others…

District Management

Web literacy: Where the Common Core meets common sense

July 10, 2012May 25, 2012 by By Alan November and Brian Mull

Are you as worried as we are that the overall impact of technology on our children’s ability to solve complex research problems is negative? Have you heard a…

District Management

School groups craft seven-part plan for improving teaching

May 25, 2012May 24, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

National, state, and district education leaders have convened at a conference this week focused on establishing better labor-management collaboration to ensure that teachers are respected, supported, and equipped…

District Management

Report calls for more broadband access in schools

January 16, 2014May 22, 2012 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

School districts should provide a minimum of 100 megabits per second of bandwidth for every 1,000 students and staff members within the next two years, and federal lawmakers…

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