Trigg County Public Schools Deploys ZeroEyes’ AI Gun Detection and Intelligent Situational Awareness Technology
Kentucky School District Integrates Leading Proactive Solution to Mitigate Gun-Related Violence
Panel: STEM education crisis stems from unsupported teachers
According to a panel of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education experts and industry leaders, the United States is still falling short of producing the number of…
Authors Guild sues universities over online books
Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Sept. 12, seeking to stop…
Sixty ed-tech products for the new school year
As the new school year gets under way, we’ve compiled a handy summary of new and noteworthy educational technology products available to educators this fall. From the latest…
Five characteristics of an effective 21st-century educator
We recently asked readers: “What are the qualities of an effective 21st-century educator?” Here are our readers' top responses.
Jobs plan would help modernize schools
Schools and teachers stand to benefit from an ambitious, $450 billion plan to boost jobs and put cash in the pockets of dispirited Americans, as President Obama responded…
Education secretary praises Toledo’s peer review system for teachers
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Textbook-free schools share experiences, insights
Nearly one year after a pilot program that put Virginia's fourth, seventh, and ninth grade social studies curriculum on an iPad, Virginia state officials say they have learned…
New teacher evaluation framework promises to serve students, and educators, fairly
Improved labor-management relations are in the best interest of every school district. Along those lines, the AFT and AASA have collaborated in the development of a framework to…
Online video service gives coaches new teaching tools
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Many U.S. schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
While iPads have rocketed to popularity on many college campuses since Apple introduced the device in spring 2010, many public high schools this fall will move away from…
Internet Archive shows Sept. 11 TV coverage
The Internet Archive, a California-based organization that collects audio, moving images, and web pages for historical purposes, has put together an archive of the television news coverage of…
Software helps treat concussions for high school athletes
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Incident response plans help district address student safety
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
What number of students should each teacher teach? How many is “too many”? It turns out that the right answer is: It depends.
AT&T, DOJ square off in a battle with implications for schools
The Justice Department’s rejection of AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA will test new federal guidelines on challenging mergers, as ... Read more
Social websites are latest sources for plagiarized material
Plagiarism is going social, according to Turnitin.com, which found that one-third of plagiarized material in student papers can be traced to social networking, content sharing, or question-and-answer websites.…
Wisconsin teacher retirements double after cuts to benefits and collective bargaining
When students return Thursday for the first day of school across Wisconsin, many familiar faces will be gone, as teachers chose retirement over coming back in the wake…
Hybrid approach drives retention success
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
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…
Detroit leads way in school security with high-tech scanning system
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‘Principal pipeline’ project targets six major districts
Six school districts will receive funding from a $75 million initiative that will help them develop a much larger corps of effective school principals and determine whether this…
New York spikes education software deal with Wireless Generation
New York’s comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with an education software firm owned by Rupert Murdoch because of the media mogul’s phone hacking scandal in Great…
Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools
Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic…
Closing the math skills gap and boosting achievement
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…
School superintendent gives up $800K in pay
Some people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County, Calif., School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's really giving back. As in $800,000—what would have been his compensation…
FCC ruling brings e-Rate funding to more applicants
Several hundred more e-Rate applicants will get funding for the wiring, routers, switches, servers, and other equipment needed to bring high-speed internet access into classrooms, thanks to a…
Missouri judge blocks Facebook limits for teachers
A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered a double setback Aug. 26. First, a judge blocked it from taking effect because…
15 ways more funding could change education
If money were no object, what would your "dream school" look like—and what it would offer students and teachers? Perhaps surprisingly, many readers responded with practical, common-sense ideas—which…
Jobs resigns as Apple CEO; educators ponder his ed-tech legacy
Though Steve Jobs wasn’t at Apple’s helm during the twelve years the company established itself as the leader in educational technology in the 1980s and 90s, it was…
Would you like to wow parents all year long?
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…
Recycling program helps schools snag new technology
At a time when many school districts are forced to cut technology spending, some schools are able to purchase laptops, digital cameras, and other classroom technology through a…
Conservative blogger launches site to reform ‘deplorable’ public education
Public schools and universities soon could face the same intense political scrutiny as left-leaning filmmakers and politicians after internet entrepreneur and controversial blogger Andrew Breitbart said his newest…
Free curriculum resource helps educators teach to Common Core standards
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…
Teachers prepare for 10th anniversary of Sept. 11
