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Gates Foundation launches $20 million program to expand technology use

November 5, 2013October 11, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Oct. 11 announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges, a collaborative, multi-year initiative that aims to help dramatically improve college readiness and…

Teaching & Learning

Utah schools chief urges investments in early childhood, technology

October 7, 2010 by Laura Ascione

During his annual State of Education speech Oct. 6, state Superintendent Larry Shumway said Utah schools have achieved a lot with limited funding, but more money should be…

Teaching & Learning

Texas sues feds over $830M in education aid

September 27, 2010 by Laura Ascione

Texas officials filed a lawsuit Sept. 23 against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to overturn the federal agency's rejection of the state's application for more than $830…

District Management

e-Rate gets facelift with wireless pilot, community access

November 5, 2013September 23, 2010 by From staff and wire services

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Sept. 23 voted to upgrade and modernize the federal $2.25 billion-a-year e-Rate program by allowing schools to make e-Rate funded, internet-enabled computers…

District Management

Newark, NJ, schools to get $100M Facebook donation

October 29, 2010September 23, 2010 by Laura Ascione

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old wunderkind behind Facebook, is making a move to become a player in philanthropy just before the opening of a film that portrays him as…

Teaching Trends

Federal grants target education ‘from birth through college’

October 13, 2010September 22, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Organizers in distressed communities from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., soon will begin plans to create what the federal Education Department (ED) envisions as “Promise Neighborhoods,” where children…

District Management

Intel awards $1 million to schools

September 20, 2010September 16, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Things are looking up for America’s innovative and dedicated STEM schools, thanks to Intel Education’s over $1 million donation to six math and science schools as part of…

District Management

Publishing giant makes $400M commitment to ed tech

November 5, 2013September 14, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Educational publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is making a $400 million investment to back up the company's increasing emphasis on putting more technology into classrooms. The reason,…

Teaching & Learning

Public schools face lawsuit over fees

September 13, 2010 by Laura Ascione

Public schools across the nation, many facing budget shortfalls, have been charging students fees to use textbooks or to take required tests or courses. Now, a civil liberties…

Teaching Trends

Business group urges support for early childhood programs

October 13, 2010September 9, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The Institute for a Competitive Workforce, a nonprofit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has issued a new report called “Ready, Set, Go: How Business Should Support…

Gates Foundation to invest in next-generation instructional tools

November 5, 2013September 8, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to invest up to $250 million over the next eight years to develop ... Read more

District Management

New grant program seeks solutions to toughest classroom challenges

October 29, 2010September 8, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The U.S. Department of Education has partnered with the nation’s largest teachers union and its charitable foundation to launch a grant program encouraging public school educators to identify…

District Management

Education’s less-than-certain windfall

September 3, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

There's $10 billion for schools in the state aid bill Congress passed last month, but some school systems have reason to wonder whether they are going to see…

District Management

States given millions for new assessments

February 28, 2013September 2, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Sept. 2 announced the recipients of millions of dollars in federal grants to provide new state assessment systems to test students’ 21st-century skills.…

District Management

Texas governor offers school grants to spur sharing

September 1, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

Texas schools that cut bureaucratic costs by sharing services—from accounting to transportation—would get grants worth 10 percent of their savings under a plan Gov. Rick Perry proposed Aug.…

Ed tech is one focus of Maryland’s Race to the Top funds

November 5, 2013August 31, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

Maryland recently became one of 10 winners of the second round of federal Race to the Top grants, and Charles County officials are ready to get the ball…

District Management

New Jersey schools chief fired after Race to the Top gaffe

August 30, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired his education commissioner on Aug. 27, days after it was revealed that a simple mistake on an application form might have cost…

Teaching Trends

Fate of Early Learning Challenge Fund remains in doubt

October 13, 2010August 27, 2010 by By Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor

Advocates of early childhood education continue to fight for a federal initiative that was intended to challenge states to develop effective, innovative models that promote early childhood programs.

District Management

Did Race to the Top help or hurt the push for a common curriculum?

August 25, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

States were working on a common set of education standards before the Obama administration decided to make adoption of them part of its Race to the Top competition.…

District Management

$3.4B for 9 states, D.C. in Race to the Top grants

November 8, 2010August 24, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

More than 13 million students and 1 million educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" grant competition, the U.S.…

District Management

What’s more important: School buildings or the teachers who fill them?

August 8, 2012August 23, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

A new public school building in Los Angeles that cost more than $500 million to build--at a time when the city has laid off more than 3,000 teachers…

District Management

Math, science teachers get paid less than others

August 20, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that lawmakers and other Washington state officials have talked a lot about focusing more on science and math education, but researchers at the University…

District Management

Fighting Obama education plans, colleges boost lobbying

August 19, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

Academia might be a bastion of liberal thought, but in the past two years, the higher-education industry often has lined up opposite the White House and congressional Democrats—and…

District Management

Given money, schools wait on rehiring teachers

August 18, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

The $10 billion in new money that Congress just approved for schools to rehire teachers, counselors, and support workers is instead being set aside by school districts worried…

District Management

Education Department to boost anti-fraud efforts

August 17, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

The federal government will hire more investigators to prevent fraud by for-profit colleges in such areas as student financial aid, Reuters reports.

eClassroom News

Companies turn to social media for grant-giving

August 18, 2010August 17, 2010 by By Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor

As celebrities, politicians, and students alike increasingly use social media to stay connected, education experts say they have noticed a growing number of companies turning to social media…

District Management

More than $300 million cut from federal broadband grants

August 13, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

The new legislation that President Obama signed this week to stave jobs losses among teachers will cut $302 million in federal broadband grants to help pay for the…

District Management

Schools get $10 billion to save education jobs

November 18, 2010August 11, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Summoned back from summer break, the House on Aug. 10 pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police, and other…

District Management

Lesson plan in Boston schools: Don’t go it alone

August 9, 2010 by Maya Prabhu

Earlier this year Massachusetts enacted a law that allowed districts to remove at least half the teachers and the principal at their lowest-performing schools, reports the New York…

District Management

Sowing the seeds of creativity

November 21, 2010August 5, 2010 by Laura Ascione

Joaquin Horton, 19, who just graduated from Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, credits a new online resource called Seedplay for helping him take his company to the…

Teaching Trends

Jobs bill to stop teacher layoffs nears approval

August 5, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Legislation to provide billions to save the jobs of teachers and other public workers is on track to pass the U.S. Senate, helped along by the votes of…

Teaching Trends

States slash early childhood programs as budgets bleed

October 13, 2010August 4, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

States are cutting hundreds of millions from their early childhood education budgets, undermining years of working to help young children—particularly poor kids—get ready for school.

Republicans decry stimulus funds for student iPods

August 3, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports

A million-dollar purchase of iPods for high school students in Utah is among the many uses of federal stimulus money cited in a 74-page report put out by…

Teaching Trends

Advance planning is the single biggest key to grant-seeking success

August 23, 2010August 1, 2010 by By Deborah Ward

About eight years ago, I wrote a column that described what I considered to be the top 10 grant-writing mistakes. I recently read the list again, and it…

District Management

Last-minute funding for education jobs looks grim

November 18, 2010July 29, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

The fate of additional funding that might save thousands of teachers' jobs remains uncertain after a $10 billion education jobs bill failed to pass in Congress, leaving many…

Teaching Trends

Seven proven ways to save on school budgets

February 21, 2012July 28, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury

Despite some small signs of an economic recovery, states continue to struggle with their budgets—and districts are still finding it necessary to cut costs wherever possible. But such…

District Management

Race to the Top program spurs school-reform debate

November 8, 2010July 28, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

The U.S. Department of Education has named 18 states and the District of Columbia as finalists in the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" (RTTT)…

District Management

How to survive the school budget crisis

July 29, 2010July 27, 2010 by From staff reports

Times are tough, and that’s especially true for education. To help school leaders in this time of need, we’ve put together a special section at eSchool News Online,…

Teaching & Learning

Law allows ads on school web sites, but few districts selling space

July 21, 2010 by Laura Ascione

Arizona school districts can offer bus and web site space for advertising, but it appears few in the East Valley are seeing a big impact from the state's…

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