Risk assessments are awful, but necessary
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Task force proposes changes for preschool education
A task force charged with improving early childhood education in Kentucky is recommending the state develop a model curriculum for preschool programs and implement a screening tool for…
Infographic: Facebook vs. Twitter 2010 user stats
Facebook and Twitter are the big boys in the social networking space. This breakdown was put together by Digital Surgeons and shows demographic statistics (and a few fun…
Classroom license helps California Partnership Academy satisfy state requirements
The Westlake Information Technology Academy (WIT) is a California Partnership Academy that combines high quality academic instruction with work-based learning experiences. WIT is a unique “school within a…
Enhancing classroom instruction with collaborative technologies
Today’s students are raised in a completely different technology-rich world than previous generations. Typewriters are non-existent and cursive writing is becoming an art of the past. For our…
Immigration vote leaves Obama’s policy in disarray
The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students was a painful setback to…
Mental health needs seen growing at colleges
National surveys show that nearly half of the students who visit counseling centers are coping with serious mental illness, more than double the rate a decade ago. More…
‘Big App’ is watching you, with iPhone worse offender than Android
Your smartphone may be secretly transmitting to “outsiders,” such as ad networks, your name, your location, your age, your gender, your phone number, your unique device number and…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg starts China visit
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg started a visit to China on Monday with a tour of the offices of the country's top search engine, while his own…
Opinion: A nation being left behind
President Obama is absolutely right: America can’t afford to dither while other countries pass us by. But his message will be a hard sell to a House of…
Coach: iPhone app helped save a player’s life
A quick-thinking high school basketball coach and a $1.99 iPhone application called Phone Aid are being credited with saving the life of a Southern California teenager who collapsed…
IBM predicts five big tech innovations coming by 2015
We already know that tablets are going to take a bite out of PC sales and robots will take over social networks, but what else is happening in…
How Twitter use has changed, from 2009 to 2010
It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding, reports ReadWriteWeb.
Survey: Parents start to see TV, internet the same
No TV for a week, the time-honored punishment for misbehaving children, has been enhanced. Now, parents are also withholding internet access to punish their kids, further sign that…
Commerce Department tackles online privacy
Aiming to set ground rules for companies that collect personal data online and use that information for marketing purposes, the U.S. Commerce Department is calling for the creation…
Dan Domenech and the future of technology in schools
Daniel A. Domenech, AASA Executive Director, serves as national spokesperson and advocate for public education, superintendents and other school system ... Read more
Fla. school board shooter had turbulent life
Clay Duke held a Bay City, Florida school board at gunpoint Tuesday, saying he was prepared to die. He fired at board members, missing them by inches, and…
College-educated and illegal: Immigrants pin job hopes on DREAM Act
The DREAM Act would offer legal status and a path to citizenship to children and young adults who were brought to the US illegally and who attend college…
Home labs on the rise for the fun of science
Some people who set up home laboratories are serious hobbyists in search of better tools; others are home-schooling parents equipping their children; and others are just curious, report…
Edmodo: A free, secure social networking site for schools
Teachers seeking online communication and collaboration opportunities with students and other educators have another free resource at their disposal: Edmodo, an education-based social networking site.
U.S. public wants an easier way to fire bad teachers
An overwhelming majority of Americans are frustrated that it's too difficult to get rid of bad teachers, while most also believe that teachers aren't paid enough, a new…
Gunman fires at Fla. school board, kills self
A 56-year-old ex-convict calmly held a school board at gunpoint and said he was seeking redress for his wife's firing before shooting at the superintendent at short range…
Purdue and Verizon partner to bring 4G to campus
Purdue University will join the 38 major metropolitan areas and more than 60 commercial airports that Verizon plans to cover in the first large-scale 4G Long Term Evolution…
U.S. gov’t worker pleads guilty to accessing student files
According to PCWorld, a former employee of the U.S. Department of Education has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing confidential loan files of several hundred college students on an…
Report: Only one percent of ‘bad’ schools turn around
A study out Tuesday underlines just how hard it is to actually turn around a failing school, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
Obama: U.S. needs ‘Sputnik’ moment to boost competitiveness
Warning of a future where America could lag other nations, President Barack Obama on Dec. 6 called for more spending on education, innovation, and infrastructure to ensure that…
Education fills big space on Brown’s chalkboard
As Gov.-elect Jerry Brown prepares to take office, major headwinds are buffeting the biggest component of his upcoming budget: California's schools, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Obama signs child nutrition bill
President Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of child nutrition standards Monday, enacting a law meant to encourage better eating habits in part by giving the federal government more…
Where education reform is heading: From extreme to extremum
If you want to understand where public education reform is heading, look south and east to Florida, where the governor-elect, Rick Scott, is talking about a new funding…
Teacher-tenure standards raised
The city Department of Education changed its tenure policy yesterday with new rules designed to weed out its bad teachers and reward its best ones with jobs for…
Microsoft to announce new slates aimed at the iPad
Next month, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will present a slew of new slates that it hopes will offer some competition to the…
Scandal and a schism rattle Atlanta’s schools
Did any school district in the country have a tougher week than the one in Atlanta? Criminal investigators began digging anew into accusations of widespread cheating on state…
New challenges for Obama’s education agenda in the face of a G.O.P.-led House
With Republican deficit hawks taking control of the House next month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will no longer have billions of dollars to use at his discretion, reports…
Facebook wrestles with free speech and civility
Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, likes to say that his web site brings people together, helping to make the world a better place. But…
Memo to Facebook: Face up to security responsibilities
Based on the importance of safe social networking, maybe it's time for Facebook and its staff to spend a little more time understanding what may be the most…
What U.S. schools can learn from abroad
U.S. students once again placed near the middle of the pack in the latest international comparisons in reading, math, and science—and the program's organizers have issued a list…
Technology helps save college fundraising
