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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning
Social studies teachers can help students personalize history by embracing individualized pathways and oral or local history projects
Georgia district implements virtual-world technology
A major metropolitan school district has announced that it will offer a 3D virtual-world environment to every classroom teacher in its 35 schools.
Developing sound social media policies for schools
In a world where three out of four teens have a cell phone, and roughly the same number have used ... Read more
Music lessons going digital: Live and online
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School targets achievement gap through methods of Socrates
Should the rich fix failing schools by donating more money? Should moms keep better tabs on their kids? Eighth-graders debated those solutions to the achievement gap—as part of…
Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms
Flipped learning has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures…
New ed-tech products and announcements: Spring 2012
The editors of eSchool Media have logged thousands of miles covering various ed-tech trade shows since the start of the year, from Florida and Texas to Washington, D.C.…
Digital textbooks get a boost with new offerings
Apple recently made a splash when it unveiled its iBookstore, featuring digital textbooks for high school math and science education from McGraw-Hill and others. Now, Discovery Education has…
New ed-tech products target classroom instruction
Software designed for touch-screen tablets, and new programs for teaching reading and math, were among the many products unveiled at recent ed-tech conferences. Some providers of curriculum software…
Dual-language programs growing in popularity across California
At Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School, students are taught lessons every week in a combination of Spanish, English and Mandarin, California Watch reports.
Free video lessons offered by leaders in innovation, thinking
In the vast realm of dogs hugging baby deer and toddlers laughing hysterically, it’s not always easy finding online videos that have a deeply profound impact--that is, until…
Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators
Eleven-year-old John Payne has been a student of the Titanic since kindergarten, the Associated Press reports.
LEGO picks six Wake County schools for new education program
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Tenn. bill allows teachers to argue against evolution
The Tennessee state Senate passed a bill Monday that protects teachers who allow student to question and criticize "controversial" scientific theories like evolution, the Huffington Post reports.
Students teach computer skills to older generation
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Study: Young people not so ‘green’ after all
They have a reputation for being environmentally minded do-gooders. But an academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today's young Americans are less…
School teaches standardized testing as literary genre
On the lesson plan for one Indiana school's students: historical fiction, poetry, nonfiction and ... standardized testing, the Huffington Post reports.
Khan Academy iPad app launches with free, educational videos on Apple tablet
Popular video education hub Khan Academy launched an iPad application featuring more than 2,700 free videos on March 11, the Huffington Post reports.
Watch: Encyclopaedia Britannica gives up on print edition
Encyclopaedia Britannica will stop publishing print editions and go digital-only -- a huge step for the encyclopedia which has been in print since 1768, Mashable reports.
TED offers free video lessons for high school and college students
Imagine you’re a high school biology teacher searching for the most vivid way to explain electrical activity in the brain. How about inserting metal wires into a cockroach’s…
The science of learning: This is your brain on music
Do you want to learn how to play an instrument but think that you "can't teach an old dog new tricks?" Then you'd be interested in what Gary…
Some teens start college work early via dual enrollment
Senioritis is said to sap the energy, dull the mind, and waste the time of high school students. But some teens have found a cure for the blahs:…
Gruesome assignment spells termination for D.C. teacher
A math assignment that required students to figure out how many Africans, Americans, and Indians to bake in ovens for Thanksgiving was a recipe for termination for a…
Utah lawmakers pass bill to curb sex education in schools
Utah would become the first state to ban public schools from teaching contraception as a way of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases under a bill given final…
Groups expand access to open educational resources
As educators push for more and better access to open educational resources (OER), or content that is available free of charge online, new efforts are helping classroom teachers…
Many students could skip remedial classes, studies find
Even as policymakers struggle to reform remedial-education requirements blamed for derailing the aspirations of countless community-college students, two new studies suggest that many of those students would do…
High schools partner with high-tech firms
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Sign of the times: Driver’s ed simulators focusing on dangers of texting and driving
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Maryland considers new rules for gifted and talented student programs
The Maryland State Board of Education is poised to adopt regulations for gifted and talented education this week that instruct local school systems on how to identify gifted…
Abstinence-only sex education bill in Utah prohibits teaching contraception
A bill requiring sex education classes to teach an abstinence-only curriculum moved closer to becoming a law in Utah Wednesday, the Huffington Post reports.
Alabama bill will allow churches to teach religion classes to public school students
A bill in Alabama would allow churches or ministries to teach a religion class to public school students off campus, so long as parents and school boards give…
Free websites help boost student engagement, teacher productivity
Cash-strapped schools can’t stop giving students the resources they need to learn and develop 21st century skills simply because budgets are tight. Luckily, educators can turn to free…
Michelle Obama, the Blues, and education
First lady Michelle Obama today hailed blues music as "deeply American" and "deeply human" at a workshop for several dozen middle and high school students in the State…
At Las Vegas charter school, iPads power project-based learning
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10 educational iPad apps recommended by Explore Knowledge Academy
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‘Mass Customized Learning’: The key to education reform?
