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District Management

Why support for Common Core is sinking

January 27, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
“Hit the delay button.” That was the message New York’s senators sent to state Education Commissioner John King during last week’s hearing, the Washington Post reports.
IT Management

Teaching the essential skills of the mobile classroom

January 27, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Think back 20 years, Edutopia reports.
IT Management

50 reasons it’s time for smartphones in every classroom

January 27, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
There are many ways to use a smartphone in the classroom, but it continues to be a touchy subject, TeachThought reports.
IT Management

Low-income California Latinos get computers from Latino Community Foundation for health, education

January 27, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
As part of a campaign to help increase low-income and monolingual Latinos' access to online education, as well as health care information, some groups in California are providing…
Teaching Trends

The impact of Google on our memory

January 24, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
What is the last time you memorized something? do you still retain it in your memory or has it faded away? Memorization, though severely undermined in progressivists works,…
Teaching Trends

Md. schools need $100 million in technology upgrades for new testing

January 24, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Maryland schools will be scrambling to make $100 million in technological and other upgrades to give new state tests aligned with the Common Core standards next year, according…
Best Practices for Chromebook Adoption

Chromebooks take other mobile devices to school

October 5, 2015January 24, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Chromebooks have come from nowhere to grab nearly a fifth of U.S. school purchases of mobile computers, posing problems for Microsoft Corp. and possibly even Apple Inc., the…
IT Management

Erased answers on tests in Philadelphia lead to a three-year cheating scandal

January 24, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
The first sign that something was wrong appeared more than two years ago when a company grading student tests from Philadelphia noticed that erasures from wrong to right…
IT Management

Bill Gates: I assume my phone’s not being tapped

January 23, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
In some fascinating comments about privacy and security, the Microsoft co-founder admits that he does use e-mail to send confidential messages. And he expects a level of security…
IT Management

The defiant parents: Testing’s discontents

January 23, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Anna Allanbrook, the principal of the Brooklyn New School, a public elementary school in Carroll Gardens, has long considered the period of standardized testing that arrives every spring…
IT Management

Will “disease-like” Facebook lose 80 percent of users by 2017?

January 23, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
There’s some non-peer-reviewed “research” (PDF) going around that claims Facebook will have lost 80 percent of its users in a few years’ time, based on the idea that…
STEM & STEAM

For your child’s sake, don’t hate on math

January 23, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Admit it – given the choice between reading a book and solving some algebraic equations, you’d pick the book, according to this Teach for American blog post.
District Management

Why Eton, Britain’s 574-year-old high school, is embracing ed-tech

January 22, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
What does a nearly six-century-old private school that charges $54,000 a year in tuition do when confronted with start-ups with bright ideas about how education should work? If…
District Management

Ex-NC Gov. Perdue unveils education tech effort

January 22, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Former North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue says she wants to jump start collaboration among teachers, students and entrepreneurs to develop electronic technology that improves learning for adults and…
District Management

Beware Chinese data: Its schools might not be so great

January 22, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
For much of my life, I have been obsessed with China, Jay Mathews reports for the Washington Post.
Blended Learning

Welcome to the wild, wild web? Fewer parents enforcing internet rules for kids

January 22, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Canadian children are increasingly being left to their own devices – both literally and figuratively – when it comes to accessing the internet, according to a major new…
Teaching Trends

7 crippling parenting behaviors that keep children from growing into leaders

January 21, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
While I spend my professional time now as a career success coach, writer, and leadership trainer, I was a marriage and family therapist in my past, and worked…
Curriculum

5 reasons you should be teaching digital citizenship

January 21, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Students buzzed about the latest uproar on Instagram, TeachThought reports.
IT Management

L.A. Board of Education approves next phase of iPad plan

January 21, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
The Los Angeles Board of Education approved the next phase of a $1-billion effort to provide computers to every student, teacher and administrator, reports the Los Angeles Times.
District Management

Around the world, net neutrality is not a reality

January 21, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Net neutrality—the idea that all Internet traffic should generally be treated equally—suffered a setback last week when a federal court struck down the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s latest…
District Management

5 Newark principals suspended indefinitely, allegedly for opposing One Newark plan

January 20, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Five Newark public school principals were suspended indefinitely on Friday, including four who spoke at a community meeting opposing proposed changes to the state-run school district, according to…
District Management

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley blasts Common Core, wants state to scrap it

January 20, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Gov. Nikki Haley urged South Carolina lawmakers to scrap the national Common Core curriculum that is being phased in at schools throughout the state, KnowNews reports.
District Management

Joy & rigor: The And-Both solution

January 20, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Is it possible to create a high-engagement school where students do interesting and relevant work and meet high expectations? Erin Mote and Eric Tucker are a smart duo…
District Management

Fon raises $14 million from Qualcomm to boost sharing of Wi-Fi, music

January 20, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Spanish Wi-Fi sharing company Fon has raised $14 million from Qualcomm Ventures, VentureBeat reports.
District Management

Apple settles with FTC after kids blow millions on the app store

January 17, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Apple agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday after a formal complaint said the company was billing customers for millions of dollars worth of App…
IT Management

Technology is not driving us apart after all

January 17, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
In September 2008, two graduate students working for Keith Hampton, a professor at Rutgers, raised a camera atop a 16-foot tripod to film down into Bryant Park, the…
IT Management

New York wants to give special education kids easier tests

January 17, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Should students with disabilities be held to the same academic standards and tests as other kids their age? asks the Huffington Post.
Teaching Trends

Some schools need $100 million for online Common Core tests

January 17, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
A new report from Maryland’s Education Department to the legislature says that the vast majority of schools in many of the state’s counties are not technologically prepared to…
District Management

Does middle school need an image makeover?

January 16, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Middle school has a terrible reputation, The Atlantic reports.
IT Management

62 interesting ways to integrate iPad in your classroom

January 16, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
iPad is making huge inroads in education with more and more school districts embracing it as a learning and teaching device, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning reports.
District Management

NYC wants to teach kids how to not ruin their lives on Facebook

January 16, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
The New York City Department of Education (DOE) wants to make sure teens know how to use social media responsibly, the Huffington Post reports.
District Management

A real school reform agenda for 2014

January 16, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
If you remember your No Child Left Behind history, 2014 is the year that all children were supposed to be scoring proficient on standardized tests, the Washington Post…
District Management

Blackboard acquires MyEdu to retool the LMS

January 15, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Ask students what they remember from their learning management system (LMS) in college, and they’ll likely recall a clunky interface used to register for classes, download course PDFs…
Curriculum

LeVar Burton’s plan to revolutionize reading with tech

January 15, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
LeVar Burton is no stranger to CES. Although he's best known for his work in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roots and Reading Rainbow, the actor, director and…
Teaching Trends

America’s oldest working teacher turns 100 years old

January 15, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
"See my two legs?" Agnes Zhelesnik, America's oldest working teacher, asks. "They still move." The home economics teacher, better known as "Granny," celebrated her 100th birthday on Sunday,…
Teaching Trends

Funding formula shows potential to help disadvantaged

January 15, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Weighted student budgeting comes and goes in American school districts, the Washington Post reports.
Curriculum

11 note-taking tips for the digital classroom

January 14, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
With less books, paper, and pencils and more laptops, smartphones, and tablets gracing our classrooms these days, it would be logical to say that the nature of note-taking…
District Management

Governors include digital learning initiatives in State of the State addresses

January 14, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
With the start of the new year, governors across the country are delivering their State of the State addresses, which outline their priorities for the upcoming legislative sessions,…
Curriculum

7 things we should start teaching in schools ASAP

January 14, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Americans typically learn a lot of things in school--spelling, math, why plants are green--that are actually useful in our day-to-day lives, the Huffington Post reports.
Teaching Trends

America’s most challenging high schools

January 14, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
America's Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools through an index formula that's a simple ratio, reports the Washington Post.
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