high school
Wisconsin launches online CTE school
Online learning provider K12 Inc. announced the opening of Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin, an online career and technical education (CTE) high school in Wisconsin using the curriculum…
TED-ED clubs give students a platform for sharing ideas
The clubs are fashioning the next generation of TED speakers one big idea at a time One of Mitzi Stover’s ... Read more
The real reasons later school start times are effective
Two researchers explain how tardiness and discipline problems are linked to start times in high schools.
The project-based STEM curriculum that’s big on real-world rigor
Project Lead the Way is a STEM-centered curriculum that introduces students to engineering and robotics with a real-world twist..
Editor’s Picks 2015, No. four: 4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates
Forward-thinking practices from districts in Digital Promise's League of Innovative Schools focus on college and career readiness, and ultimately help increase the overall graduation rate.
New Va. high school to focus big on coding
That's the consensus of a growing number of educators who say how and what students are taught must change in order to better prepare them for a rapidly…
Vernier opens 2016 engineering contest
Vernier Software & Technology is now accepting applications for its 2016 Engineering Contest that recognizes engineering, science, and STEM teachers for their creative use of Vernier sensors to…
TeachCS zeroes in on computer science
As the nation focuses on Computer Science Education Week, December 7-13th, computer science curricula developers and professional development providers joined forces to announce TeachCS, a platform for high…
Every Student Succeeds Act shifts more power to states
While a "new and improved" version of the hotly-debated No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) would still require reading and math testing in grades 3-8 and once in…
How to use video and Google Forms to encourage deeper learning
One educator's video and Google forms take on the classic document-based question activity turns students into mentors and instructors and encourages deeper discussion.
What Google’s virtual field trips look like in the classroom
Last spring, Hector Camacho guided his high school economics class on comprehensive tours of the New York Stock Exchange, Federal Reserve banks, and the Treasury Building. Students swept…
7 reasons why your school should teach robotics and game design
I love every aspect of programming—the frustration, the creativity, everything. I taught myself and now I’m lucky enough to teach students how to code, build robots, and design…
Three Ways Digital Badges are Used in Education
As children, our accomplishments were recognized with trophies, plaques, a pat on the back or cloth badges sewn on to a Girl Scout or Boy Scout sash. In…
Why teach computer science in high schools?
Derek Acosta is a junior at Cristo Rey New York High School, an innovative school in Harlem where students work to finance their education. He has good grades…
South Portland ‘university’ promotes high school STEM education
The transparent gelatinous alginate strands South Portland High School junior Jackeline Zarate and Portland High School junior Bailey Ruesch pulled from a test tube last week at Fairchild…
How to stop high school from stifling creativity
“Education is not the learning of facts,” said Albert Einstein, “but the training of the mind to think,” The Globe and Mail reports.
School encourages homophobic humiliation as student punishment
Two Arizona high school students who were caught fighting faced a controversial punishment concocted by their principal: Either endure a suspension, or sit in the school courtyard holding…