Study: Minority students get less critical feedback from teachers
Black and Latino students may be getting less critical, but helpful, feedback from teachers than their white counterparts, a new educational study indicates, LiveScience reports.
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Watch: High school principal accused of ‘spying’ on Facebook, resigns
It's a cardinal rule among educators: Interacting with students on social media, if it is allowed, requires caution and the same amount of professionalism that would be conducted…
Watch: Education Secretary Arne Duncan: Gay marriage should be legal
A day after Vice President Joe Biden said he was "absolutely comfortable" with gay marriage, signaling the Obama administration's evolving views on same-sex marriage, Secretary of Education Arne…
Game-based learning catching on in schools
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Schools chafe at effort to rate teacher preparation programs
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Will new federal rules kill off a beloved school tradition?
Is the tradition of school bake sales nearing an end? At a time when school communities are forced to increase fundraising efforts amid tighter budgets, one hugely popular…
Watch: Student heading to Harvard after being homeless, abandoned by parents
When facing homelessness, bullying, and being abandoned by family, many people might be tempted to give up hope. But for 18-year-old Dawn Loggins, who was just accepted into…
Guess when this warning about testing was written
The following, published in an American newspaper, warns about the dangers of attaching high stakes to standardized test results and about the growing dependence on these assessments in…
Don’t believe the outrage: First grader rightfully suspended
According to ABC News, a first grader in Aurora, Colo., was suspended for singing "I'm sexy and I know it" during school. , quoting a lyric from a…
Lenovo to spend $800M to develop mobile products
Lenovo, best known for its PCs, plans to get into mobile in a big way with an $800 million base in Wuhan, China, dedicated to developing mobile internet…
Ed-tech group IDs ways to help boost achievement
An initiative that uses research to identify ways to use educational technology successfully soon will launch a professional learning community with resources and collaborative opportunities to help school…
AP surges as a tool for schools raising standards
Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymore.
Arizona 15-year-old will graduate from college, then high school
An Arizona 15-year-old girl will don two different caps and gowns this month, but the first won't be at her high school graduation, Good Morning America reports.
Parents of boy forcibly tattooed sue school district
The parents of a New Hampshire teenager who was assaulted and forcibly tattooed on the buttocks by four older students during school hours have filed suit against the…
Experts unlike ruling in Facebook speech case
The "like" button on Facebook seems like a relatively clear way to express your support for something, but a federal judge says that doesn't mean clicking it is…
Striking new tone, Chris Christie says education reform is led by GOP
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, said Thursday that Republican politicians are leading the way for better educational opportunities for poor and minority children through voucher…
Illinois state Senate votes to end legislative scholarships
The Illinois Senate agreed Thursday to stop letting lawmakers hand out free college education to certain constituents, removing the final roadblock to ending a century-old practice plagued by…
Watch: NYC bans student-teacher interaction on social media
Should teachers in the digital age be allowed to Facebook friend and Twitter follow their students? The New York Department of Education (NYC DOE) says no, Mashable reports.
A state that just says ‘no’ to modern school reform
Quietly marching to its own drummer, Washington State has mostly turned its back on the education reform movement that is sweeping much of the rest of the country,…
Why the nation needs more female engineers
“Are you sure you want to be a software engineer? You are such a people person. Won’t you be stuck working alone, staring at a computer for hours…
Gay student faces expulsion for firing stun gun to fend off bullies
Darnell "Dynasty" Young, a 17-year-old gay student at Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, Ind., is facing possible expulsion after he fired a stun gun at bullies he…
Watch: Former, current Chicago mayors clash on longer school day debate
While former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has thrown some veiled criticism at successor Rahm Emanuel in the past, the man who led the city for 22 years…
Social media and video games in classrooms can yield valuable data for teachers
Social media, video games, blogs and wikis are playing increasingly important roles in classrooms across the country, according to the Hechinger Report.
Watch: Colbert on ‘don’t say gay’ in school bill
There is a bill now being considered by Missouri legislators that would come close to banning all conversations in public schools about sexual orientation as well as bar…
For some parents, leaving a private school is harder than getting in
In February 2011, Nicole Smolowitz’s son was admitted to the Mandell School on the Upper West Side. She signed a contract and paid the $7,500 deposit. By late…
Young student urinates on class MacBooks, costs school $36,000
An 11-year-old male student at Upper Allen Elementary School in Mechanicsburg, Pa., is facing serious consequences after he urinated on the school's MacBook computers, causing around $36,000 in…
Pontiac school district finances to be reviewed by Michigan Department of Education
The Pontiac school district took a step this week that may put the school system on the road to a state-appointed emergency manager, the Huffington Post reports.
New video game-themed high school may be a hard sell
Never mind video games getting in the way of homework or learning time. At one Florida school, video games are homework, the Huffington Post reports.
Kid cheats; Father sues school district
A high school sophomore supposedly cheated on homework. He was kicked out of his honors English class, and his father doesn't deny the cheating occurred. But that's not…
Students win $115,000 by doing the math on high-speed rail
Many high school students do math problems about trains. Fewer win $115,000 in college scholarships by calculating the possible future of U.S. high-speed rail, LiveScience reports.
Studying the Kentucky Derby: More than a horse race
Good teachers know how to wrap a lesson around almost anything (when they are allowed to), says Valerie Strauss, columnist for the Washington Post.
School district fights subpoena of Penn State victim records
A Pennsylvania school district on Monday moved to quash a subpoena asking for psychological and other records of one of the 10 boys Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky…
Groups advocate for mobile learning, 21st century education
Two working papers from educational technology stakeholder groups advocate for mobile learning and its ability to expand educational opportunities to students of all circumstances.
U.S. to fall short of 2025 college grads goal–by 24 million degrees
Despite persistent appeals from policymakers and politicians to increase the number of college graduates in the United States, a new report projects a shortfall of nearly 24 million…
Suspended high schoolers organize their own school
Students suspended for walking out of class at Detroit's Western International High School earlier this week to protest school closures and demand a better education, are holding a…
The challenge of the introverted student
One of my teacher interns at San Francisco State University wrote a paper a few years ago that reminded me of what I occasionally missed as a teacher,…
School cyberbullying victims fight back in lawsuits
When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her there was not much they could…
Watch: Sisters in trouble with school for shirts supporting father, paralyzed Afghanistan veteran
Two girls from James Master Elementary School in Converse, Texas, are in trouble after officials claimed their t-shirts, which bore logos of the non-profit Homes For Our Troops,…
InfoComm 2012 exhibitors prepare for record-setting show
InfoComm International, the trade association representing the commercial audiovisual industry, will hold InfoComm 2012, its annual commercial audiovisual show, in Las Vegas from June 13-15. InfoComm 2012 will…
ISTE 2012 will expand horizons
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) will hold its 33rd annual conference and exposition, with a theme of ... Read more