Kevin Huizenga's alter-ego Glenn Ganges returns in his latest collection of spiky, intellectually adventurous stories -- drawn in friendly, styli...
4 September 2010, 4:42 am
When Rhoda Janzen was 9, her mother busted her for reading the thriller 666 during an incredibly dull sermon at their Mennonite church. To this d...
3 September 2010, 2:00 am
In his new book, The Grand Design, the British physicist says unraveling a complex series of theories will explain the universe. The book, writte...
2 September 2010, 3:57 pm
Mark Schatzker, a lifelong steak lover, was disappointed in the steaks he was eating. So Schatzker set off on a quest to find the very best piece...
2 September 2010, 10:50 am
Now in its 219th year, the newest Old Farmer's Almanac makes its debut with weather predictions, gardening advice and mouthwatering recipes for D...
1 September 2010, 10:00 pm
The former prime minister of the United Kingdom's memoir, My Life: A Political Journey, is on sale in the U.S. Blair spoke to Steve Inskeep about...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
For more than seven years, Americans learned about the war from news reports. But between headlines, many also turned to books to understand the ...
1 September 2010, 10:00 am
Plenty of folks are wary when it comes to self-help, but if you're not going to help yourself, then who will? Writer Lisa Unger says: Silence you...
1 September 2010, 5:50 am
John McCain's daughter says in a new book that Sarah Palin brought drama, stress and uncertainty to her father's failed bid for the presidency in...
31 August 2010, 4:16 pm
Two recent books resurrect the debate over universities and the supposedly pampered people who teach there.
3 September 2010, 10:00 pm
Though many students are liberals on social issues, the weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties.
3 September 2010, 1:15 pm
We've summarized and linked everything teachers, parents and students can do on our site. Please, pass this post along!
3 September 2010, 10:22 am
A new curriculum at N.Y.U. is intended to foster more personal relationships between medical students and patients.
3 September 2010, 8:44 am
The Los Angeles Times and an education economist set out to create a consumer guide to education.
3 September 2010, 8:38 am
Student Opinion | What does the new look of the president's office "say" to you?
3 September 2010, 4:46 am
6 Q's About the News | What have the people in this photo agreed to do?
3 September 2010, 1:51 am
Could the bubble be on the way out? In the near future, students may take their tests on computers.
2 September 2010, 11:30 pm
A recent Chicago forum on for-profit colleges made pertinent points about the state of American eduction but ignored some important issues.
2 September 2010, 11:20 pm
It's back-to-school time, which means some in the media have gone back to asking: "What's wrong with our schools? And how can we fix it?"
2 September 2010, 1:29 pm
Alabama schools have been having a rough time of it, and it only looks like it's going to get rougher. The Cotton State recently came in last pla...
31 August 2010, 11:10 am
What if students attended school all year? One Wisconsin teacher thinks that could be a way to improve student grades and fix the nation's publi...
31 August 2010, 10:13 am
Palestinian children in East Jerusalem are being put at a disadvantage because of a dire shortage of classrooms in the east side of the city, acc...
24 August 2010, 2:21 pm
More children are crowding into classrooms in Modesto, Calif. Parents are paying extra to send their kids to full-day kindergarten in Queen Creek...
20 August 2010, 4:21 pm
Dear Annie: I hope you can settle an argument. My parents are saying that with my college major (English), it will probably be hard for me to fin...
26 July 2010, 4:26 pm
The District of Columbia public school system announced Friday that it is letting 226 employees go for poor performance under the education asses...
23 July 2010, 7:38 pm
The arrest of 19 protesters at a rancorous school board meeting Tuesday brings the issue of busing and diversity in education into the national s...
21 July 2010, 3:30 pm
More than 16,000 U.S. medical school graduates are awarded M.D. degrees each year, and many enter their residency programs at teaching hospitals ...
8 July 2010, 12:44 pm
Through a federal grant, California will join 43 other states in replacing oft-maligned standardized exams.With a federal award of $330 million, ...
3 September 2010, 12:00 am
The group, including the presidents of the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Greater L.A., urges the use of student test score data...
2 September 2010, 12:00 am
Most members say the current way of evaluating teachers needs to be reworked; some add parents deserve more information about instructors. Some c...
1 September 2010, 12:00 am
An audit finds that the founding principal at NEW Academy Canoga Park allegedly misused or misappropriated money, depositing funds into an Amerit...
31 August 2010, 12:00 am
A panel recommends increasing contributions by employees, raising the retirement age for new hires and reducing some benefits.The University of C...
31 August 2010, 12:00 am
The Times made public an analysis of L.A. Unified third- through fifth-grade teachers based on student test scores.National and local teachers un...
30 August 2010, 12:00 am
Many schools are holding orientations for anxious mothers and fathers of freshmen, attempting to teach them a lesson not contained in any traditi...
29 August 2010, 12:00 am
Chancellors say that without a state budget, 'We are operating with a blindfold on.' The delay has already forced campuses to borrow money and th...
28 August 2010, 12:00 am
In another year of budget cuts, Cal State students are left to plead, strategize and guilt their way into critical coursesMy daughter has snagged...
28 August 2010, 12:00 am
North Carolina is poised to make sweeping changes in the way it evaluates students and high schools by requiring students to take the ACT.
3 September 2010, 12:20 pm
Scholars worry that two high-profile controversies over sharing data on teachers could make it harder to do research on schools.
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Just days before the deadline, some in line for federal innovation grants still must find the private funds needed to secure their money.
2 September 2010, 6:58 pm
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A third state consortium that applied for a smaller Race to the Top grant to build high school exams failed to garner an award.
2 September 2010, 7:00 am
The case opens as federal officials, in a separate ruling, determine that state ELL practices violate federal civil rights law.
2 September 2010, 6:55 am
The releasing of criminal arrest records of licensed teachers amounts to a misdemeanor, frustrating officials who say more transparency is needed...
2 September 2010, 6:28 am
A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".
4 September 2010, 4:56 am
Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests.
3 September 2010, 5:39 pm
One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.
3 September 2010, 5:52 am
President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia, is now 12 years old and 5ft 9in (1.75m). But what's it like to be a young girl who's taller than the re...
3 September 2010, 1:48 am
A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries.
3 September 2010, 1:13 am
England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer child...
2 September 2010, 4:49 pm
Dame Ellen MacArthur tells how sailing around the world taught her how finite the planet is.
2 September 2010, 7:20 am
Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that in one in nine Scottish primary schools at least 60% of places are unfilled.
2 September 2010, 4:41 am
School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey carried out in England for the School Food Trust suggests.
1 September 2010, 4:15 pm
The Freakonomics movie that premiered this spring at the Tribeca Film Festival is released to the public today -- but only on iTunes (and on some...
3 September 2010, 12:04 pm
We've had some old unwanted gold jewelry lying around for a long time. With gold at $1,237 per ounce, we figured it was time to sell it. We are...
3 September 2010, 7:30 am
A reporter for the Canadian newspaper The Star handed out five pre-paid credit cards to panhandlers, asked the panhandlers to return the card whe...
3 September 2010, 6:49 am
New research indicates that older people are "more likely to choose to read negative articles about those younger than themselves. They also tend...
2 September 2010, 11:32 am
Two years ago, I asked for suggestions for the most memorable movie lines of recent years, to help with the next edition of The Yale Book of Quot...
2 September 2010, 10:00 am
We recently solicited your questions for Sonia Shah, author of The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years. Her responses cover ...
2 September 2010, 7:30 am
A new literature review, summarized in the BPS Research Digest, concludes that "the vast majority of studies find that lay people, police officer...
2 September 2010, 6:30 am
It's not quite Minority Report, but the L.A. Times reports that the LAPD is working with UCLA mathematicians to pursue a sophisticated form of pr...
1 September 2010, 12:00 pm
University students are returning to campuses throughout the country. It is a migration that raises my spirits - seeing the energetic, eager fac...
1 September 2010, 10:00 am
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has spent much of the back-to-school season talking with teachers and parents. His department recently oversa...
2 September 2010, 10:00 am
Unmarried women between the ages of 22 and 30 are making 8 percent more than men in the same demographic, according to a new analysis of governme...
1 September 2010, 12:55 pm
BYU says it is leaving the Mountain West Conference and will go independent in football while joining the West Coast Conference in all other spor...
31 August 2010, 4:49 pm
The Los Angeles Times has published a controversial database giving ratings for individual teachers in the huge L.A. Unified School District. Tea...
30 August 2010, 2:31 pm
In the city's public schools, test scores are climbing, charter schools are opening all the time, and facilities are being upgraded. But the popu...
30 August 2010, 12:45 pm
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Donald Martin, superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District in North Carolina, which has been ...
30 August 2010, 12:00 pm
Everyone agrees teacher performance is crucial to student achievement, but there is no consensus on how best to evaluate educators. The Los Angel...
30 August 2010, 10:00 am
Northern Arizona University has installed electronic devices that record student attendance in an effort to boost freshmen grades and lift laggin...
29 August 2010, 9:01 pm
The Los Angeles Times has promised to release the names of elementary teachers in Los Angeles, along with data showing how much their students im...
26 August 2010, 9:00 pm
If you were to walk into my office, I’d have a pretty decent sense of your gender, your age, your race, and other identity markers. My know...
26 August 2010, 2:32 pm
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Carmen and her mother are close. As far as Carmen’s concerned, she has nothi...
23 August 2010, 8:40 am
I have been writing about social divisions between Facebook and MySpace for some time now, focused exclusively on American teenager dynamics. Ye...
17 August 2010, 10:34 am
I’ve changed my name twice. First, I took my (now ex) stepfather’s last name when I was a child. At 18, I started the process to ta...
16 August 2010, 3:22 pm
Eszter Hargittai and I just published a new article in First Monday entitled: “Facebook privacy settings: Who cares?”
Abstract: With ...
28 July 2010, 2:20 pm
(This post was written for Blogher and originally posted there.)
Every time I dare to talk about race or class and MySpace & Facebook in the ...
21 July 2010, 10:30 am
Growing up as a white girl in Pennsylvania, I was taught that being tan was beautiful. My wealthier classmates would go on vacations to Florida ...
20 July 2010, 5:00 pm
First, I commend Facebook for taking child safety seriously. When I was working with them as part of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, I...
15 July 2010, 2:56 pm
Yesterday, G and I were sitting at a concert being curious about the throngs of people at Great Woods and we got to musing about the variety of j...
11 July 2010, 9:41 am
Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan announced a national coalition to enroll five million children in Medicaid and CHIP within five years.
3 September 2010, 9:40 am
Alabama, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Tennessee are among the states that will receive funding to support education jobs.
3 September 2010, 5:35 am
Read Secretary Duncan's remarks to state leaders about Race to the Top Assessment winners and the next generation of assessments.
2 September 2010, 11:36 am
Secretary Duncan and other Obama administration officials announced a $1.8 billion agreement to help renovate and rebuild schools in New Orleans.
27 August 2010, 3:08 pm
Secretary Duncan is taking a bus tour to visit schools, honor and listen to teachers, meet with parents and students, and highlight success. See ...
27 August 2010, 6:18 am
Secretary Duncan discussed his Back to School Tour and the Obama Administration's education agenda, and he thanked America's teachers -- "our uns...
25 August 2010, 4:00 pm
ED grants will help 98 school districts strengthen their emergency response plans.
19 August 2010, 7:57 am
Charter school grants to state agencies in AR, CA, CO, DC, GA, IN, MI, MO, NH, RI, SC, and TX will help increase public school options.
18 August 2010, 3:04 pm
New York and California are among the states that will receive additional Recovery Act funds to support jobs and drive education reforms.
17 August 2010, 12:30 pm
As alumni donations to US universities plummet, Canada and Asia forge ahead. Hannah Fearn writes
3 September 2010, 5:00 pm
The vice-chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton is to retire next summer as she feels it is “time to do something else” after 40 years...
2 September 2010, 5:00 pm
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Many universities set to lose income overall if cap is lifted, researcher warns. Simon Baker reports
1 September 2010, 5:00 pm
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Seventh annual survey draws on robust new methodology and 13 performance indicators. Phil Baty reports
1 September 2010, 5:00 pm
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Australian critics launch attack on 'cargo cult' of university corporatisation. Simon Baker reports
1 September 2010, 5:00 pm
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Earlier this week a friend sent me a couple of links to articles on intellectual property and students. One was about piracy (Future Tense: Pirac...
3 September 2010, 2:51 am
Dr. James Parrish is on the faculty at the University of Arkansas Little Rock and has recently started a blog. (James Parrish blog) It looks like...
2 September 2010, 2:19 am
I’ve talked about DreamSpark before of course but the start of the school year seems like a great time for a reminder. The Microsoft DreamS...
1 September 2010, 2:33 am
Or is it “mind” the data? Last week I read a blog post by Stacey Armstrong (CS News – Video Game Data Mining) that linked to an...
31 August 2010, 5:14 am
One of the things I tell people when they ask me about why I came to work for Microsoft is that the company has grown up in many ways over the ...
30 August 2010, 2:04 am
The most interesting error message I ever saw read something like “Unexpected error – installation dying in disgrace” It was the “dying i...
25 August 2010, 7:54 am
Announcing the first part of a series of educational resources for learning to create games for Windows Phone 7. Get introduced to Windows ...
24 August 2010, 2:28 am
Happy Monday! Are you back to school yet? A lot of teachers are. If you are back I hope it is going well. If not yet, are you working out to get ...
23 August 2010, 2:54 am
Recently my friend and co-worker Dan Waters was giving a presentation about XNA Game Studio as a development platform for the new Windows Phone 7...
20 August 2010, 2:23 am
Podcast Generator is an open source content management solution specifically customized for podcasting.* Since it's open source, it's free but yo...
2 September 2010, 11:04 am
Yesterday during our second class of "Computers in the Classroom" for pre-service teachers at the University of North Texas, I showed students th...
2 September 2010, 10:10 am
What a great lineup of educators and presentations! http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=603 It all begins October 11th, and it's all free. If you h...
1 September 2010, 7:56 pm
The two minute video on Oklahoma City's KOCO.com Channel 5 website, "Grant Provides Laptops for Students," shares information about the exciting ...
31 August 2010, 3:16 pm
The power of video to inspire and move us in less than three minutes is amazing. This video by Nick Vujicic ("Are You Going To Finish Strong?) ca...
31 August 2010, 1:34 pm
The news article, "Internet Meme Turns Headline into iTunes Hit" shares the inspiring story of crime victims turned empowered entrepreneurs in Al...
31 August 2010, 6:00 am
This semester for my undergraduate "Computers in the Classroom" course I've setup a class blog on the website 21classes. Since the free version i...
30 August 2010, 9:41 pm
The Great Book Stories project continues to be one of the most successful wiki-based collaborative initiatives I've helped start. Its focus is sh...
30 August 2010, 9:17 pm
It's about time! How long till our university and K-12 texts make the digital switch?! Via http://mashable.com/2010/08/30/oxford-english-dictiona...
30 August 2010, 5:46 pm
A Houston charter sends all of its grads, many underprivileged, to four-year colleges.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
What can you do to set yourself apart in your application? Admissions officials have the answers.
2 September 2010, 5:30 am
Many of these issues can be avoided, if students and parents recognize them. Here are some tips.
1 September 2010, 11:07 am
If you're interested in engineering, you can still opt to take the liberal arts route.
31 August 2010, 10:06 am
Choose the writer carefully and provide him or her with the information to craft a quality letter.
30 August 2010, 4:00 am
Tech, nursing, and liberal arts college students are among the top repayers of loans.
30 August 2010, 3:30 am
Some high-priced schools feature in the best payers list.
30 August 2010, 3:30 am
U.S. News has published new lists on which colleges are the most and least ethnically diverse.
26 August 2010, 6:38 am
Avoid these common mistakes students make when tackling writing assignments.
25 August 2010, 6:16 am
by Mary BeardI wouldn't have wanted to spend much time with her. She was far too histrionic, too satisfied with her own cleverness and even more ...
3 September 2010, 4:06 pm
It's been three years of confusion and distress, but Andrew Penman has finally found a secondary school for his son. Why is it so hard, he asksI ...
3 September 2010, 4:05 pm
Bad advice or unrealistic goals meant thousands of degree hopefuls had no margin for error in their A-level gradesThousands of teenagers have mis...
3 September 2010, 4:01 pm
Private schools are three times more successful than state schools at helping pupils gain the top two GCSE gradesClose to a third of all GCSE ent...
3 September 2010, 4:01 pm
Ever wondered what it's like to take charge of raising London's Tower Bridge? Charles Lotter, who's job it is, gave Jill Insley the chance to fin...
3 September 2010, 4:01 pm
Exclusive: Education secretary had claimed that more than 700 'free schools' could be established due to high demandMichael Gove, the education ...
3 September 2010, 1:30 pm
There are bargains to be had for netbook shoppers on a budget, says Marc LockleyLast week's article regarding the Apple MacBook sparked a fiery d...
3 September 2010, 12:56 am
Poverty affects grades less among non-white children with social divide noticeable from primary schoolA child's social class is more likely to de...
2 September 2010, 4:05 pm
Middle-class families still dominate best schools despite attempts to close class gapMiddle-class families monopolise the best schools even when ...
2 September 2010, 4:01 pm
(Rice University) Theoretical physicists from Rice University have created a new model that helps define the subatomic origins of ferromagnetism ...
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
(Carnegie Mellon University) Scientists who are pioneering the use of gigapixel imagery will discuss how they are leveraging this new technology ...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
(University of California - San Francisco) UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a dev...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
(Elhuyar Fundazioa) Sociologist Ms. Lucia Merino presented her Ph.D. thesis titled, "Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation ...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
(American Society for Cell Biology) The old joke is a joke no more. In a special September issue of the ASCB's online journal, CBE-Life Sciences ...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
(Florida State University) The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects -- English, math, science, hi...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
(University of Houston) The rare book, "India Illustrated" is now digitally preserved and available online for students, historians and others ar...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
(SAGE Publications UK) Faith based schools are on the rise in the UK, apparently boosting educational standards. But are religious values at odds...
31 August 2010, 9:00 pm
(University of Cambridge) "Mindfulness," the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolesc...
31 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Our "Students 2.0" mini-series continues on Tuesday, April 27th, with a live and interactive interview with Dr. Jackie Gerstein on "User-Generate...
26 April 2010, 11:02 am
Our "Students 2.0" mini-series continues Wednesday, April 28th, with a live and interactive interview with Anya Kamenetz on her book, DIY U: Edup...
26 April 2010, 9:19 am
Our "Students 2.0" mini-series starts tonight with a live and interactive interview with Dr. Robert Epstein on his encyclopedic book, Teen 2.0: ...
26 April 2010, 7:55 am
Join me for a Conversations.net live and interactive interview with Scott Rosenberg, author of Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What...
10 April 2010, 8:38 pm
Below are this coming week's public, free, and interactive webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I wo...
10 April 2010, 8:16 pm
Below are this week's public, free, and interactive webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on f...
6 April 2010, 10:23 am
We're in day four of our week of social networking experiments. :) Today, Aula 2.0.Tomás Chaskel from Bogotá, Colombia, has be...
1 April 2010, 11:50 pm
So, while yesterday's "experiment" wasn't really that new or from scratch, today's certainly qualifies. "Students 2.0" is a brainstorm that...
31 March 2010, 8:13 pm
This is day two of a week of experimenting with social networking projects, and I'm cheating a bit. But for a good cause.Library 2.0 was st...
30 March 2010, 10:24 pm
You've mailed the big tuition check and packed your kid off to college, but will you and your offspring get your money's worth? Here are three bo...
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
A history class in Prince George's County got an unexpected lesson this week.
Middle school - Education - K through 12 - Educators - Person...
3 September 2010, 11:02 am
Some men get buildings named after them; others, streets. Ron Hillyer is getting a hallway.
United States - Education - Honor Societies - S...
2 September 2010, 6:15 pm
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The federal government awarded $330 million Thursday to two groups that are developing new student assessment systems for the District, Maryland ...
2 September 2010, 5:44 pm
Jeannie Kauffman and her three children represent two distinct generations of Garrett Park Elementary schoolers. Kauffman attended the school as ...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Spurred by increasing elementary school enrollment, officials in St. Mary's County are preparing a request for state assistance to construct anot...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
The D.C. Youth Orchestra Program has operated for nearly a half-century at Coolidge High School in Northwest. Last month, the nonprofit music pro...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
When Sheena Rose went to register her son for kindergarten at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School , she was told there was no room. She was given ...
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
The Los Angeles Unified School District board has endorsed the controversial system of using student scores on standardized tests as a way to mea...
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A Microsoft official argued Jan. 13 that the U.S. Congress should create rules and regulations for cloud computing, a burgeoning technology that ...
21 January 2010, 2:31 pm
Some grant-giving entities have had to make adjustments in their award programs owing to the economic downturn, affecting both educators and stud...
21 January 2010, 3:43 am
The National Labor College will make about 20 online courses available for the AFL-CIO's 11.5 million members next fall in an effort to help work...
20 January 2010, 12:50 pm
Open scholarly content will become more commonplace in higher education in the next year as online universities and textbook companies organize a...
20 January 2010, 3:09 am
Combining text, audio, and video chat with features like drag-and-drop documents and interactive polls, Google Wave is a free web program that co...
19 January 2010, 2:41 am
To help meet schools' technology needs, several educators and web professionals volunteered their expertise during the Martin Luther King Day Tec...
18 January 2010, 1:20 pm
To help provide broadband access to more citizens, the Federal Communications Commission should expand the eligible uses of e-Rate discounts to i...
18 January 2010, 7:24 am
Technological innovations might be categorized along a continuum from sustaining to disruptive. In education, a sustaining technology might be a ...
18 January 2010, 7:09 am
Drexel University engineering student Jeffrey Dowgala says real-time information recorded by electronic sensors has helped him and his classmates...
15 January 2010, 2:53 am
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Un equipo de científicos grabó cómo chimpancés salvajes de Guinea son capaces de desmontar las trampas de los cazadores.
3 September 2010, 7:36 pm
Descubren razones para la relación entre la edad de las mujeres y la producción de óvulos anormales, vinculados a defectos genéticos.
3 September 2010, 7:13 am
Científicos descubrieron un compuesto químico que logró, con apenas una administración, curar la enfermedad en ratones.
3 September 2010, 3:38 am
En IFA, la feria de tecnología de consumo más grande de Europa, Samsung y Toshiba se lanzan tras el iPad de Apple.
3 September 2010, 3:37 am
Cientos de miles de peces aparecieron muertos en las riberas de varios ríos, provocando una alerta ecológica.
2 September 2010, 5:14 pm
Los rascacielos apagan sus luces para evitar que las aves migratorias se estrellen contra estos edificios de gran altura.
2 September 2010, 3:46 pm
Los lectores opinan sobre si la idea de Dios puede ser eliminada por los descubrimientos de la física contemporánea.
2 September 2010, 8:06 am
Crean el primer submarino ecológico en Francia. Tiene capacidad para una persona, y hace falta llevar tanque de aire comprimido.
2 September 2010, 7:36 am
Una "vaca artificial" que elimina a la mosca de la enfermedad del sueño, es nombrada uno de los mejores inventos británicos.
2 September 2010, 7:07 am
A Microsoft official argued Jan. 13 that the U.S. Congress should create rules and regulations for cloud computing, a burgeoning technology that ...
21 January 2010, 2:31 pm
A tablet computer from Apple could threaten Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, but the Kindle, which now accounts for 70 percent of electronic reader ...
21 January 2010, 7:12 am
Open scholarly content will become more commonplace in higher education in the next year as online universities and textbook companies organize a...
20 January 2010, 3:09 am
Combining text, audio, and video chat with features like drag-and-drop documents and interactive polls, Google Wave is a free web program that co...
19 January 2010, 2:41 am
In the beginning, there was one internet, born from American research and embraced by academics around the world. It was in English and homogeneo...
18 January 2010, 7:51 am
Technological innovations might be categorized along a continuum from sustaining to disruptive. In education, a sustaining technology might be a ...
18 January 2010, 7:09 am
Drexel University engineering student Jeffrey Dowgala says real-time information recorded by electronic sensors has helped him and his classmates...
15 January 2010, 2:53 am
CNET reports that Microsoft researcher Matt MacLaurin came up for the idea for Kodu in his kitchen in the fall of 2006, noticing the way his thre...
14 January 2010, 6:20 am
In a move that could shake up the interactive whiteboard (IWB) market, two projector manufacturers have just released new products that can turn ...
13 January 2010, 2:21 pm
The social media phenomenon continues to bring interactivity to the mainstream and lead more and more people into a connected world. A clear ex...
28 August 2010, 5:21 am
The 2010-2011 school year is upon us, and with it comes many new teachers who are excited to enlighten the minds of students who will sit before ...
28 August 2010, 4:36 am
School leaders often complain about being judged by their standardized test scores. This is a fair complaint since these scores don't tell the wh...
20 August 2010, 10:50 am
It has been a while since my last contribution. If that sounds to some like the opening line of confession.... perhaps it is. I confess. I was a ...
20 August 2010, 8:54 am
When a colleague, Daryll Powell, and I conduct workshops for teacher leaders and school principals, we frequently ask participants, "Why did...
19 August 2010, 6:16 pm
Condense it, consolidate it, and give us principals only what we need...the concepts. Expand it, expound on it, and give the teachers what they n...
19 August 2010, 7:12 am
The discussion about web filtering in schools has been going on for quite some time. These powerful conversations have pushed thinking and ignite...
15 August 2010, 4:33 pm
In my last post on my blog I was pondering the opening day that will soon arrive and what it will look like. George Corous posted his thoughts ab...
14 August 2010, 1:21 pm
It was last year around this time that I talked about the start of meeting season. This was my call for all leaders to engage in a little activi...
13 August 2010, 9:06 pm
High school seniors around the country are beginning to gather material for their college applications.
4 September 2010, 3:18 am
A Sacramento preschooler has become one of the youngest members of the high IQ Society of Mensa .
3 September 2010, 11:08 pm
In another signal that the future of the MCAS could be in doubt, a consortium of states led by Massachusetts and Florida received a $170 million ...
3 September 2010, 6:54 pm
The paper is under fire for naming names, but the goal - of media and the union - should be better educating students.
3 September 2010, 2:44 pm
You've survived elementary school, where your little one needed you at every turn, and middle school, where the hormones were new and raging.
3 September 2010, 10:35 am
This woman at the wheel symbolizes parents who give up paid outside work to stay home and teach their children.
3 September 2010, 6:29 am
Public education and standardized testing lead to a standardized citizenry of thoughtless unoriginality, according to a high school valedictorian...
3 September 2010, 5:29 am
He said enrollment in the graduate program is up five percent. In January, a new doctorate in nursing will be added - the school's fourth.
3 September 2010, 1:15 am
The Way We Live Now: getting out. Packing it up. Packing it in. Rolling it up. Leaving the market.
2 September 2010, 9:10 pm
I'm honored to be providing the pre-conference keynote for the 2010 K12 Online Conference. I've been involved in this conference since it...
30 August 2010, 9:10 pm
We are all aware of the economic challenges that schools face. The truth is, schools have always had limited budgets and been scrutinized for spe...
25 August 2010, 8:24 pm
This video has been around for a while and I've used it in various presentations as a powerful illustration of using the web to change lives....
21 August 2010, 12:00 pm
There's an interesting phenomenon that I've been observing as late and that is the visualization of text. By that I mean using words as g...
18 August 2010, 7:00 am
Yesterday I posted about the video project that ties in with my photo a day. I thought I'd provide a bit of an insight into my work flow most...
11 August 2010, 11:22 am
Since I decided to attach a song title to all my photos of the day this year, I've added a fair bit more of work to the project. While the pr...
10 August 2010, 2:48 pm
Rob and I have an ISTE proconference chat. We also discussed Dean’s iPad, packet shaping and what makes the perfect storm for...
14 July 2010, 6:21 am
"Dad, what's your 3rd favourite colour?"
My youngest daughter is known for asking these types of questions. She has actually as...
5 July 2010, 8:14 pm
Cross posted at TechLearning
I recently watched Clay Shirky's newest TED talk based on his book, Cognitive Surplus. The concept of ...
3 July 2010, 7:15 am
Things I'm really excited about as we move into the new year... in no real order:
Seeing who we are without the first class in the building. T...
27 August 2010, 10:56 pm
