For the tablet generation, a lesson in digital citizenship
Parents pack into a gym at Cahuilla Desert Academy, a middle school in the southern California city of Thermal, NPR reports.
NPR
Raising kids in a digital age
Last week, the NPR tech team reported a series on kids and digital media, including school-issued iPads, stories about babies and screen time, teens and social media, the…
Newtown residents demolish a school, and violent memories
Demolition has begun at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman killed 20 students and six adults last December, NPR reports.
This board game aims to teach preschoolers how to code
These days, the effort to get more of us writing computer programs has become part of an "everybody should learn to code" ethos that folks like President Obama…
New computer school makes French students teach themselves
A new computer school in Paris has been overwhelmed by some 60,000 applicants, NPR reports.
Why aren’t more girls attracted to physics?
You don't need to be a social scientist to know there is a gender diversity problem in technology, NPR reports.
3D printer brings dexterity to children with no fingers
Richard Van As was working in his home near Johannesburg, South Africa, in May of 2011, when he lost control of his table saw, NPR 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,…
What’s different about the brains of people with autism?
Like a lot of people with autism, Jeff Hudale has a brain that's really good at some things.
School spankings still allowed in 19 states
While punishing students by spanking them with paddles at school seems like a scene from Little House on the Prairie , it's still a reality for students in…
Think you’re an auditory or visual learner? Scientists say it’s unlikely
We've all heard the theory that some students are visual learners, while others are auditory learners. And still other kids learn best when lessons involve movement, NPR reports.
A teacher leaves the classroom for Afghanistan
In Afghanistan's Helmand province, a Marine platoon had taken over an abandoned compound, NPR reports.
Arne Duncan: How Dream Act can cut deficit
During Obama's Twitter Town Hall meeting Wednesday, several questions focused on U.S. schools' needs and budgets, NPR reports.
Fight over education funding heads to state Supreme Court
The state constitution says it’s Washington’s “paramount duty to make ample provisions for the education of all children,” but is it failing to do that? This afternoon, the…
Lobbyists protest new standards that would limit pizza, french fries in schools
Some student food favorites are under attack in Washington, NPR reports.
Education programs assail ‘U.S. News’ survey
Amid criticism from education reform advocates who say many teacher preparation programs provide poor training, a national organization is conducting a review of more than 1,000 programs to…
Community Colleges: Where’s our $12 billion?
The Obama administration has touted community colleges as the one institution in higher education that can best adapt to the nation's economic realities and still deliver the education…
The story behind ‘Free Public WiFi’-It’s not
You've probably seen it a thousand times and even thought "Hey, why not?" but it never seems to work, says ReadWriteWeb.