By James McElligott, Author at eSchool News

Incident response plans help district address student safety

September 20, 2011September 5, 2011 by By James McElligott

Following the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the East Coast, U.S. Homeland Security determined that schools and hospitals…

Viewpoint: A rational approach to student-teacher ratios

October 27, 2011September 1, 2011 by By Mickey Revenaugh

What number of students should each teacher teach? How many is “too many”? It turns out that the right answer is: It depends.

Hybrid approach drives retention success

November 6, 2013September 1, 2011 by By Angela Naginey

In 2007, when California Lutheran University (CLU) campus leaders noticed a drop in freshman return rates, they charged me with serving as CLU’s retention champion. As the first…

Universal Service reform: What it means for schools

September 1, 2011August 30, 2011 by By Cynthia Schultz, Contributing Editor

Changes to the government's Universal Service programs will result in new broadband options for schools—but they'll also create new compliance challenges as the web of federal programs supporting…

Closing the math skills gap and boosting achievement

November 6, 2013August 29, 2011 by By Gil-Rey Madrid

As with so many other schools around the country, it was apparent that too many of our students, at all grade levels, were struggling with math and were…

Would you like to wow parents all year long?

November 6, 2013August 25, 2011 by eSchool News Contributor

You won’t likely wow parents by sharing the classroom rules and procedures. You will, however, wow them by sharing valuable information about their child. How do you do…

Free curriculum resource helps educators teach to Common Core standards

November 5, 2013August 23, 2011 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

A popular online education resource now provides interactive curriculum tools specially tailored to correspond with both state standards and the Common Core standards—and U.S. educators can use the…

The digital natives are restless

November 6, 2013August 22, 2011 by By Alan Rudi

We believe many American schools today provide an effective education, but that the bar is rising, requiring new ways to think about how to educate today's students. A…

Our digital natives are immigrating

November 5, 2013August 18, 2011 by By Karl Ochsner, Ed.D.

Marc Prensky eloquently coined the metaphor of the “digital immigrant” to define an adult who has “immigrated” into the use of technology. This is opposed to a “digital…

Report: Federal action needed to expand digital learning

April 26, 2012August 15, 2011 by By Raishay Lin, Contributing Editor

As schools increasingly embrace digital learning, a new report says more federal action is needed to encourage the effective use of educational technology.

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