Youth Service America has launched the first annual Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards to recognize two young female social entrepreneurs, ages 14 to 17, whose initiatives serve the common…
Karissa Snow won $5,000 in scholarship money just by blogging and winning her peers' approval. She's among 40,000 students vying for tuition cash every week on CollegeNET, a…
Karissa Snow won $5,000 in scholarship money just by blogging and winning her peers' approval. She's among 40,000 students vying for tuition cash every week on CollegeNET, a…
The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies is offering a series of free online tours that invite educators, families, and students to learn about America’s diverse cultural…
Every child around the world should be entitled to a primary education, but many are not receiving a full or even a partial primary education, say the creators…
Students, be careful what you post about yourself online: That's the key lesson taken from a recent survey suggesting that many college admissions officers are looking at students'…
Successful Video ProductionKnowing how to produce, edit, and distribute video gives high school and college graduates a valuable and much-in-demand skill.
David J. Malan's Harvard University computer science students completed projects last fall that would have proved difficult -- if not impossible -- without cloud computing. Malan secured a…
David J. Malan's Harvard University computer science students completed projects last fall that would have proved difficult -- if not impossible -- without cloud computing. Malan secured a…
The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has provided unprecedented levels of federal funding for education, and it has prompted most grant writers across…
Educators and students now can give presentations using the power of cloud computing, while possibly saving thousands of dollars compared to other online presentation services. Slidelive is an…
Universal Response to Intervention Response to Intervention (RTI) helps teachers identify struggling learners and adjust instruction accordingly, so that student do not fall behind.
ING will provide 50 $2,000 grants to schools that desire to establish a school-based running program or expand an existing one. The grant program was created in an…
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) is providing grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language…
eInstruction and Knowledge Delivery Systems is inviting educators to tell them what online resources they have or would like to use that contribute to the success in their…
The Calypso School First Foundation will award three school-wide classroom sound-field reinforcement systems (up to 35 classrooms) beginning in the 2009-2010 school year. The grant awards will be…
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides a $12.8 million one-time appropriation to California for equipment assistance grants to school food authorities (SFA) participating in…
National libraries from more than a dozen countries, in coordination with the United Nations' education agency, put some of humanity's earliest written works online April 21 with their…
The global swine flu outbreak worsened April 28 as authorities said hundreds of students at a New York school have fallen ill and federal officials confirmed the first…
On April 1, 2009, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that $44 billion for states and schools is now available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…
PandemicFlu.gov provides comprehensive government-wide information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems,…
A never-before-seen strain of swine flu has turned deadly in Mexico and is causing milder illness in the United States and elsewhere. While authorities say it's not time…
Since 2002, the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) has worked to improve math and science teaching throughout the state, most recently by piloting the new SPARK…
Mary Furlong, Mary Furlong & Associates; Tracy Gray, National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI) (Moderator); Larry Grossman, Digital Promise Project; Noel Gunther, WETA-TV-FM; Marshall Raskind, Schwab Learning &…
A South Carolina high school student on Thursday asked the state's highest court to quickly clear the way for millions of federal stimulus dollars to flow to schools…
What happens to the waste we all produce? When does it make sense to recycle? Can trash become energy? Teachers and their students can find answers to these…
Education Secretary Arne Duncan on April 17 released nearly $4 billion to California, the first state to benefit from a special fund for states that was created by…
President Obama's planned commencement speech at Notre Dame's May 17 graduation has sparked an online movement calling for the university president's ouster, and has prompted social networking groups,…
President Obama's planned speech at Notre Dame's May 17 graduation has sparked an online movement calling for the university president's ouster and has prompted social networking groups, filled…
Information technology company Oracle Corp. announced April 20 it is buying Sun Microsystems Inc. in a cash deal the company valued at $7.4 billion, after IBM abandoned its…
The American Civil Liberties Union has asked public school officials in Tennessee to stop blocking students' access to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender web sites on school computers…
Default Lines for eSchool News, print edition, May 1, 2009 -- A carnivorous creature has been seen skulking about the internet henhouse, and frankly, it's making certain chickens…
Parents, school districts, and law-enforcement officials have been grappling with what to do with teenagers who take sexually explicit photos of themselves with their cell phone cameras and…
Once a concept only well known in special-education circles, Response to Intervention (RTI)--which responds to individual students' needs by taking a data-based approach to instruction--has taken hold in…
The easy availability of digital video clips through video-sharing web sites such as YouTube and others is changing the nature of recruiting for college athletics, something that has…
The easy availability of digital video clips through video-sharing web sites such as YouTube and others is changing the nature of recruiting for college athletics, something that has…
Privacy and security concerns are among the many barriers holding back the use of social networking tools in schools, new research suggests--but a number of child-friendly applications have…
In an important change that comes two months after schools already applied for FY2009 e-Rate discounts, intranet web hosting has been classified as e-Rate eligible beginning with the…
The ING Unsung Heroes Program is searching for education professionals who are using creative and unique educational programs or who would like to use those types of programs…
