Mystery Skype Calls Connect Your Classroom to The World
Mystery Skype sessions engage every student in the classroom as they search for clues and try and try and solve a mystery--where the other class is located.
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8 simple tools for creating engaging infographics
Human beings are visual and adept at identifying patterns and trends quickly. Infographics can aid our understanding of otherwise dense, multifaceted, or complicated material.
6 Characteristics of Great PD (And Great Classrooms)
For nearly a dozen years I’ve traveled to various schools and districts to deliver professional development workshops and presentations. Over the years, I’ve also sat in on many…
Induced labor linked to higher autism risk
Artificially stimulating labor is associated with a slightly higher risk of autism, but researchers caution that the link may be complicated, TIME reports.
Ten of the best virtual field trips
To help educators save time, we've chosen these 10 virtual field trips based on their relevancy, depth and quality of resources, and potential for student excitement.
From innovation to marketing: Understanding technology cycles
It seems as though the past year I’ve heard a lot of early adopters — especially the tech media — complain about the lack of innovation coming from…
What happens to the kids when charter schools fail?
Terri Griffin made herself a promise when her youngest daughter was ready for kindergarten: the little girl would never set foot in an Akron public school. Griffin, an…
Opportunity Nation highlights a lack of upward mobility
Kevin Jennings knows a thing or two about the American Dream. He came from a trailer park in Lewisville, N.C., where he was raised by a single mother…
In Brazil, a plan to send students to world’s top colleges
With their economy booming, their currency at a level that makes even London prices seem cheap and their foreign policy one of the world's most ambitious (President Dilma…
Where did all the male teachers go? France worries that boy students may be suffering
There are too many women in English schools, declared British Prime Minister David Cameron. In order to restore authority in the classrooms, Cameron thinks that the presence of…
Charter school smackdown
Is it the best of times or end times for public charter schools? Asks TIME.
No Child Left Behind: Can Obama revamp the education law?
The Obama Administration is doubling down on its push to overhaul the federal No Child Left Behind Act, reports TIME.
Professor commissions creepy robot that looks exactly like him
This isn't eerie at all: Geminoid DK, in conjunction with Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark, has created a robotic version of the associate professor that…
No junk food for you! Parents and principals not pleased about coming school lunch guidelines
Many school lunch items could be gone now that the federal government has issued new restrictions on fat and sodium offered during the school day, reports Time.
States’ rights and states’ wrongs on school reform
We shouldn't lionize states when they're too often failing to fix our schools, Time reports
Jackson Browne: Singer, L.A. charter school board member
Jackson Browne is a commercially successful and critically acclaimed musician. He is also a longtime activist on causes ranging from Tibetan independence to opposing nuclear power. And now…
Is the golden age of education spending finally over?
As America starts to grapple with its out-of-control spending habits, we as a nation really should reckon with our education costs, says Andrew Rotherham for Time.
Does income-based school integration work?
Economic integration, a concept first floated by early public-school crusaders like Horace Mann, is a compelling idea with intuitive appeal: reduce the preponderance of high-poverty schools by spreading…
Charter Schools: The good ones aren’t flukes (or cherrypickers)
Charter schools are all the rage these days. The public is increasingly smitten with them - in this year's Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup education poll, 68% of respondents said…
Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama as prepared for delivery (Jan. 8, 2009)
Throughout America’s history, there have been some years that simply rolled into the next without much notice or fanfare. Then ... Read more