How long can students stare at a frozen screen before their minds wander off? How long can they wait for a webpage to load during testing before losing…
Classrooms have had computers for decades, but in the past few years the buzz about “education technology” (or edtech) has become persistent, especially in America, The Economist reports.…
Younger kids typically love to draw and aren’t too worried about the outcomes of their artwork — until they get older, Mind/Shift reports. By the time they’ve learned…
It's an amazing experience when little things in a product can make a huge difference in the human reaction, Mac Observer reports. I recall watching a Top Gear…
The Texas Board of Education delayed final approval of a widely used biology textbook because of concerns raised by one reviewer that it presents evolution as fact rather…
According to a recent PEW Research Study, 66 percent of Americans say either that the education system in this country needs to be completely rebuilt or that it…
Where do you get your information on content or ideas that you present in the classroom? Some of you educators may say the classroom text book, most of…
A school superintendent has been indicted on charges of obstructing justice and tampering with evidence by a grand jury investigating the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville,…
Take a look around your classroom, We Are Teachers reports. What do you see? Future scientists? Mathematicians? Writers and lawyers? Artists and singers?
In his new book To Sell is Human, author Daniel Pink reports that education is one of the fastest growing job categories in the country, Mind/Shift reports.
Tens of thousands of high school freshman and seventh graders were slated to get brand new, high tech hardware this fall as the Miami-Dade school district prepared to…
The 2020 Science report released in 2005 observed that science was changing in a subtle but fundamental way--from the use of computing to support scientific work, to integrating…
Principals and their protégés from around the country participated in an inaugural event at Fort Leavenworth Nov. 13-15 to learn more about how the Army develops leaders so…