INFOGRAPHIC: What social media are schools using?
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Learn how to become a connected educator
Connected Educators Month (CEM), an initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to help educators make better use of digital and social media tools for collaboration,…
What are educators talking about?
If you have ever tried to get through a meeting at school and struggled over the terminology that educators threw at you, you will share Liz Willen’s feelings…
INFOGRAPHIC: Readers’ poll results
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A new teacher asks: “How do I do this?”
He was a big man, a presence to be reckoned with on any football team, the Huffington Post reports.
Advice from teachers to parents
The Huffington Post reports: Like many teachers, I have a good relationship with the parents of my students.
What we can learn from the smartest kids in the world
In this excellent review of Amanda Ripley’s new book “Smartest Kids in the World,” Annie Murphy Paul highlights one of the biggest changes in how we perceive American…
Report: Public fuzzy on Common Core State Standards
At a time when most U.S. public schools are implementing the Common Core State Standards, a new report finds that Americans don’t know what the Common Core State…
“Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell
Want to see a public school system in its death throes? Look no further than Philadelphia, Salon.com reports.
Listen up, schools! Technology helps with parent participation
A new survey reveals that though most parents want to participate in their child’s school or district, not enough technology options exist to help them communicate with educators…
Arizona Common Core Standards spur focus on parent involvement
The Republic reports that school course material in Arizona will be more difficult this year, not only for students but for their parents.
Move over, Millennials: Why 20-somethings should fear teens
Forget about generational spats with Boomer bosses and trying to break free from overinvested parents, the cohort Millennials really need to worry about is Generation Z.
Watch: Chicago student slams school board for massive teacher layoffs
In less than two minutes, nine-year-old Chicago Public School student Asean Johnson on Wednesday unloaded a heartfelt plea to save teachers while excoriating the Board of Education that…
The amazing way teachers are helping their undocumented students
At International High School in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood, teachers always told their immigrant students to work hard, apply to college and receive scholarships, the Huffington Post reports.
State Rep. pens controversial letter to teachers
Washington State Rep. Liz Pike (R-Camas) sparked controversy last month when she posted an open letter to teachers on her Facebook page, the Huffington Post reports.
7 things educators want to tell Bill Gates
Just five years after leaving the day-to-day operations of Microsoft, Bill Gates has become a major player in education policy -- and some teachers are not pleased, the…
7 education facts that will anger, move you
Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old indefatigable advocate who was shot in the head by the Taliban, delivered a stirring speech at the United Nations on Friday.
20 people who changed tech: The internet pioneers
My father wasn't much for gardening, InformationWeek reports.
Barriers to girls’ education abound in rural schools
Today we visited the San Miguel School. It is an example of community dedication, responsibility and exemplifies a commitment to education that impressed me, Takepart.com reports.
How we created an app for our district—and why you should, too
When we discovered that more than 10 percent of our website traffic came directly from mobile devices, we decided it was time to go mobile.
Sugata Mitra: Build a school in the cloud
Ted.com reports that onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish.
Teachers pose with their guns
December’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut jarred parents and teachers around Ohio, CNN reports.
Poorly educated and poorly connected: The hidden realities of innovation hubs
When President Barack Obama decided to kick off his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tours” in Austin it highlighted once again the city’s reputation as a growth sector…
Reflections from a one-room schoolhouse
I built a one-room schoolhouse on 80 acres in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and completed a year of teaching students of various grades and ages in this…
Why millennials are the entrepreneur generation
VatorNews reports that the millenial generation, also known as Generation Y, consists, at least by some, of those born between 1982 and 1993.
Spelling Bee begins with 1st-ever vocabulary test
The sign outside the waiting room read: "Preliminaries Test, Quiet Please." Spellers emerged one by one, having taken the first vocabulary test in the history of the National…
NYC Spanish teacher claims she was fired for using “negro” word in class
The Epoch Times reports that a Spanish teacher in the Bronx said she was fired for using the word “Negro” in class.
Teacher’s resignation video: ‘Everything I loved about teaching is extinct’
In the video below, veteran teacher Ellie Rubenstein of Highland Park, Ill., resigns after eloquently explaining how teaching has changed over the past 15 years.
What we can learn from a dinner controversy in the desert
A few weeks back, I had the honor to emcee the closing awards dinner at the Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Michael Horn reports on Forbes.com.
What kind of ‘Little Free Library’ would you create for your community?
They look like trellises and fishtanks, spacesuits and mailboxes, the New York Times reports.
How to turn an urban school district around—without cheating
The Atlantic reports that the recent public school test-cheating scandals in Atlanta and Washington D.C. are insidious not only in their impact on their own communities, but also…
Stories of struggle and creativity as sequestration cuts hit home
The New York Times reports that facing the task of cutting 142 children from the Head Start program in Colorado Springs this fall, the teachers and administrators came…
New initiative for Detroit Public Schools: What will it mean?
Detroit Public Schools announced a groundbreaking initiative that should have broad-spectrum impacts for residents when fully implemented, Yahoo News reports.
Google execs say ‘The power of information is underrated’
Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen — coauthors of a new book, The New Digital Age — recently returned from a highly publicized trip to North Korea,…
Google’s Earth Day doodle reflects planet’s complexity
Google is marking Earth Day 2013 on Monday with what might be its busiest yet more subtle animated doodles. In fact, its level of involvement has led Google…
‘New tradition’ for Georgia students: Their first racially integrated prom
As Quanesha Wallace remembers, it was around this time last year when the idea first came up at Wilcox County High School, CNN reports.
Student auctions off future earnings, drops out of college
Fed up and sinking in college loan debt, Sarah Hanson decided to gamble on a novel idea, the Huffington Post reports.
Construction of world’s largest optical telescope approved
If you love eye-popping images of space, here's welcome news: the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources has backed building what's to be the world's largest, most…
Recipe for high-school success: be curious, work late, ignore the textbooks
I didnʼt start biomedical research to learn more about stem cells or skin regeneration back in ninth grade, reports The Globe and Mail.