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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
Albuquerque schools embrace ‘techbooks’ instead of textbooks
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New online portal features outstanding public media resources from the last decade
WNET, New York City’s flagship public TV station, has pulled together more than 800 interactive educational resources from public media projects from the past 10 years and housed…
How classroom games can help build reasoning skills
While most students enjoy games, even the simplest kind—such as tic tac toe—can help children develop important 21st-century skills such as critical thinking and mathematical reasoning, experts say.
Will.i.am to debut new song on Mars, promote science education
From the files of what will they think of next, singer-songwriter-producer will.i.am will debut his next song on Mars. NASA announced the news itself via press release on…
New graphing calculator lets students plot on top of real-world images
A new graphing calculator from Casio lets students plot mathematical equations on top of real-life images and user-uploaded photos—adding relevance to math concepts that many students find abstract…
Opinion: Algebra isn’t necessary and STEM is overrated
Whenever I meet anyone who wants to talk about education, I immediately ask them to tell me the quadratic equation. Almost no one ever can. (Even the former…
High school students get dual-enrollment discount
Montana colleges say they are making it cheaper and easier for high school students to take some college classes, the Associated Press reports.
Students publish ed-tech textbook on iBookstore
At Georgia College, educational technology could spawn more educational technology.
Dictionary.com: A back-to-school resource for all your language needs
Once solely a reference source, Dictionary.com has evolved into a comprehensive online and mobile learning destination that offers a blend of free and subscription-based personalized vocabulary and writing…
Opinion: Eight problems with Common Core Standards
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.’s book, “Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know,” was published March 1, 1987. So it was probably in March of that year when, sitting…
Gardens blooming at schools teach nutrition, science, teamwork
Gathered in the large garden behind an elementary school here, a group of kindergartners watched as their teacher snipped some basil, let them smell the leaves, and then…
Math education: What’s the problem?
A new report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) tackles the U.S. algebra and mathematics dilemma and is the latest to suggest that not all students should be…
Free algebra course helps teachers address Common Core requirements
SAS Curriculum Pathways has launched a free Algebra 1 course that provides teachers and students with all the required content ... Read more
Eight problems with Common Core Standards
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.’s book, “Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know,” was published March 1, 1987, the Washington Post reports.
How to fix our ‘mediocre to awful’ science standards
Americans have grown accustomed to bad news about student performance in math and science. On a 2009 study administered by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 15-year-olds…
Carnegie Mellon spinoff’s toys teach technology by making it fun
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‘Facts’ students will learn under Louisiana voucher program
Under Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s sweeping new school voucher program, tens of millions of Louisiana taxpayer dollars will be used to offer vouchers to more than half of…
Three core values of science, engineering and how ed reform contradicts them
President Obama and countless reports all say that improving science and engineering literacy and ensuring a next generation of U.S. scientists and engineers are vital to our future,…
Utah withdraws from consortium developing Common Core tests
The Utah state school board on Friday voted 12-3 to withdraw from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium -- one of two state-based consortia working off of $360 million…
Watch: In major expansion, Kno adds K-12 to digital education platform
In a big leap into a new but adjacent market, Silicon Valley digital education start-up Kno said it is entering the K-12 space, expanding from its college-only focus,…
Teachers put to test by digital cheats
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Group pushes more federal, state dollars for geography education program
The political push by a group of geographers has managed to unite a bipartisan group of governors that normally don't agree, the Huffington Post reports.
J.K. Rowling webcast will promote new Harry Potter Reading Club
J.K. Rowling’s next book is for adults, but she will be on hand this fall to help promote a new reading club for kids, the Harry Potter Reading…
How one California school uses iPads to support its PE programs
By combining SPARK’s movement-based curriculum with the user-friendly iPad, our PE department has been able to work more efficiently and effectively during a time when budget cuts and…
D.C. at-risk students paid $5.25 an hour to attend summer school
The District of Columbia is paying more than 300 students $5.25 an hour to attend summer school, the Washington Examiner reports.
New high school is latest to focus on project-based learning
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Graphic novels, eBooks on students’ summer reading list
Tom Miley, a media specialist for Baltimore County Public Schools, relayed something of an odd desire to a group of summer school reading students at Ridgely Middle School…
Some scary training for teachers
On July 5, T he Answer S heet published a post I wrote about the Relay Graduate School of Education. That began a lively discussion about the Relay…
NBC launches new educational video series about the Summer Olympics
