Los Angeles is home to nearly 86,000 gang members. When they want to quit "gang banging," many call Fr. Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest. Father G...
11 March 2010, 10:00 am
The South African cleric and human-rights activist Desmond Tutu joins Renee Montagne to reflect on his long life and his lasting message about fo...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
The first novel by Danielle Trussoni follows the struggle between nefarious human-angel hybrids and the band of mortals trying to keep them in ch...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Since the U.S. invasion, 4 million Iraqis have had to leave their homes. An additional 2 million have left the country entirely, and many are sti...
10 March 2010, 9:00 am
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Karl Rove released a memoir Tuesday that many reviewers criticized as being more defense of George W. Bush-era policies than revealing look at th...
9 March 2010, 2:00 pm
In Eric Puchner's novel Model Home, a father relocates his family from the Midwest to Southern California, but his dreams for success, and theirs...
9 March 2010, 12:00 pm
David Grann spent years documenting true stories of obsession and deception. He includes an improbable international impostor and the mysterious ...
9 March 2010, 10:00 am
In February, Henry Holt & Company stopped the presses on The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, amid questions of fraud. Motoko Ri...
9 March 2010, 10:00 am
The decision to shutter 28 of its 61 schools reveals the depth of dysfunction in the chaotic, almost non-functioning Kansas City School Board.
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11 March 2010, 9:21 pm
This word has appeared in 577 Times articles over the past year.
11 March 2010, 9:09 pm
The deal would bundle a bill on student loan overhaul into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation.
11 March 2010, 9:07 pm
Uncertainty about the amount of state aid in the 2009-10 school year has school districts across Illinois in a bind over staffing and planning fo...
11 March 2010, 9:01 pm
Despite a highly critical state audit, the FAME school won renewal of its charter for another five years in a vote by the Alameda County Board of...
11 March 2010, 7:59 pm
Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington made the rare move of hiring a woman, Natalie Randolph, to coach its football team.
11 March 2010, 5:23 pm
A blogger explains how she uses The Times as a "grammar how-to manual."
11 March 2010, 4:11 pm
Lesson Plan | Developing strategies for reading nonfiction and nominating titles to be added to the curriculum.
11 March 2010, 12:09 pm
House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs from becoming a casualty of the health care ba...
11 March 2010, 8:39 am
I mentor a student who is a senior in a low-performing high school. About 50 percent of the students at his school drop out, while less than 25 p...
9 March 2010, 11:50 am
Today, in California and other states across the nation, students, teachers, faculty and workers have been protesting, striking, walking out of c...
5 March 2010, 11:15 am
Students and college professors in California and around the country protested Thursday over the drastic cuts imposed on cash-strapped state coll...
4 March 2010, 6:52 pm
What does it mean when a white sorority wins a competition that African-American fraternities and sororities not only created but also consider a...
2 March 2010, 5:34 pm
President Obama highlighted stronger federal efforts Monday to help lower a high school dropout rate that, according to the president, is undermi...
1 March 2010, 2:49 pm
Tuition at many public colleges and universities is skyrocketing, thanks to state budget deficits that have choked off funding for higher educati...
24 February 2010, 1:42 pm
Ohio State University is No. 1 again, but not in football or basketball. For the second year in a row, the school's president was the highest pai...
18 January 2010, 3:57 pm
America could be facing a nursing shortage that will worsen exponentially as the population grows older.
23 December 2009, 5:18 pm
Her bedside manner is comforting, the questions to the point.
13 December 2009, 10:33 am
James Schneider, 77 and ailing, faces foreclosure. He had fought the L.A. school district to keep his house, which he bought in 1963, from being ...
11 March 2010, 12:00 am
The decision is reached after the disclosure of misspending on the district's $5.7-billion bond construction program. A whistle-blower complaint ...
10 March 2010, 9:52 pm
Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform -- and more rigorous -- standards Wednesday as draft new nationa...
10 March 2010, 9:10 am
The focus of the Education Department probe will be the district's services for students learning English.
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10 March 2010, 12:00 am
Officials hope that by keeping the proposal off the bigger June ballot, their odds of winning the tax hike will be higher.
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8 March 2010, 12:00 am
The 3-year-old program has been carving away at future utility expenses for the sprawling system. 'Our mission is to be the greenest school distr...
7 March 2010, 12:00 am
A duo hiking across Russia's frozen Lake Baikal aim to inspire and educate about sustainability.
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5 March 2010, 9:16 pm
Rallies and walkouts are largely peaceful, but 150 are arrested in Oakland as a freeway is blocked. The demonstrations are part of a nationwide '...
5 March 2010, 12:00 am
No reason was given for the decision. Education leaders announced that 15 other states and Washington, D.C., are in the running for billions in g...
5 March 2010, 12:00 am
Lawyers agreed to freeze the case for 30 days while computer experts determine how often the school activated the laptop cameras and how many stu...
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Members of the BNP or any group which may promote racism will not be banned from teaching in England, the government says.
11 March 2010, 4:09 pm
Whistleblowing hotlines and random checks should be used to catch parents who cheat over school places, a report says.
11 March 2010, 9:57 am
BBC's School Report featured a raft of highlights from 25,000 students who produced some amazing reports and features.
11 March 2010, 9:18 am
Ex-footballer tells how he has overcome cancer
11 March 2010, 8:16 am
Most families in England were given their first choice of secondary school - but the picture is varied.
11 March 2010, 2:45 am
School Reporters up and down the country have been asked about teenage slang in their school.
11 March 2010, 2:05 am
Teenagers who complete a period of work experience at McDonald's will be able to gain a qualification equivalent to a GCSE.
10 March 2010, 4:11 pm
Schools in England are being issued with new guidance on how to spot signs that children are involved with gangs.
10 March 2010, 4:01 pm
Parents with buggies who take up wheelchair spaces on buses face a crackdown in a government campaign.
10 March 2010, 9:17 am
The overutilization of emergency rooms is often cited as a dangerous symptom of America's broken healthcare system. But a new Slate article from...
11 March 2010, 12:00 pm
Each week, I've been inviting readers to submit quotations whose origins they want me to try to trace, using my book, The Yale Book of Quotations...
11 March 2010, 11:00 am
Last words on death row.
11 March 2010, 8:00 am
A new pricing scheme for Miami Dolphins tickets.
11 March 2010, 6:45 am
Transactions costs are involved in most small-scale activities we engage in. Living in a country, and coping with its institutions, also involve...
10 March 2010, 12:30 pm
In at least one Asian country, however, there's reason to believe the missing women phenomenon may someday disappear. South Korean parents, who ...
10 March 2010, 11:00 am
We've established that men are more likely to take the wheel when a couple rides together, but should we care? I say we should. Aside from the cu...
10 March 2010, 8:00 am
A splendid graph, showing high-frequency data on water consumption in Edmonton during the men's Olympic hockey final (on February 28), and compar...
10 March 2010, 6:30 am
For most products, an "organic" label results in a significant price premium. However, a new study finds that the opposite is true for California...
9 March 2010, 12:00 pm
A high school in Wayne County, N.C., has a student population that is poor and 99 percent black. That's not the case at other public high schools...
11 March 2010, 9:10 pm
Kansas City, Mo., has just approved one of the largest school closures in the nation's history. All over the U.S., the number of districts shutti...
11 March 2010, 12:12 pm
Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious st...
11 March 2010, 1:49 am
Teacher layoff's in the Los Angeles school system have hit inner city schools especially hard, and more layoff notices are being sent out this we...
11 March 2010, 1:00 am
Schools took another big step toward an elusive goal: establishing basic education standards that could apply to nearly every student in the US. ...
10 March 2010, 12:00 pm
Some urban school systems are turning to the tough tactics businesses and law enforcement use to improve employee performance. The sometimes-cont...
10 March 2010, 12:00 pm
Doug Lemov, a teacher himself, believes passionately that champion teachers are made, not born. He studied successful teachers, and describes sp...
10 March 2010, 10:00 am
The blueprint released by a group of governors and school superintendents lays out what students should be learning in math and English every yea...
10 March 2010, 8:01 am
At University of the People, students from across the globe have access to free online classes in business administration and computer science. ...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media land...
24 February 2010, 2:39 pm
I’ve been following ChatRoulette for a while now but haven’t been comfortable talking about it publicly. For one, it’s a hugel...
21 February 2010, 6:48 pm
Sarita Yardi has been doing a lot of thinking about ChatRoulette these days and I wanted to share a short essay she wrote to explain ChatRoulette...
21 February 2010, 6:38 pm
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has drama...
28 January 2010, 12:06 pm
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you’re interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to chec...
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ED will examine the academic opportunities and access of English Learner students in the Los Angeles Unified School District to assess whether th...
10 March 2010, 12:37 pm
The grant application and final priorities for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) are now available.
8 March 2010, 8:24 am
Secretary Arne Duncan visited Selma, Alabama, where he announced plans for a reinvigorated Office of Civil Rights to ensure equal educational opp...
8 March 2010, 8:24 am
The White House and ED announced the Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge, inviting public schools to compete to have President Oba...
5 March 2010, 11:10 am
More than 250 community leaders, educators, parents, and students gathered to discuss turning around the Detroit area's lowest-achieving schools.
5 March 2010, 11:09 am
Secretary Arne Duncan participated in the Celebration of Teaching and Learning in New York City, where over 8,500 educators across the nation too...
5 March 2010, 11:08 am
Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey will receive additional funding under the Recovery Act, ED announced earlier this month.
5 March 2010, 11:07 am
Each day this week WhiteHouse.gov will highlight ED efforts to help reach the President's goal of having the highest proportion of college gradua...
1 March 2010, 12:25 pm
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack's priorities for reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act "would be a major step in the right direction for the health...
24 February 2010, 3:10 pm
Noise and lack of bedding are among the problems faced by those from abroad. John Morgan reports
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
The University of Kent is making up to 11 academics compulsorily redundant, including four professors in its School of Biosciences, on the ground...
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
The national body for university teaching has a future - but not in its present form, says its former head.
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
Scholar addresses rhetoric's deadly role in turning 'jaw-jaw' into 'war-war'. Matthew Reisz reports
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
Paul Curran hails appointment as ‘unique privilege’. Rebecca Attwood reports
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
Reviews foreshadow change in the governance and shape of sector and HEFCW. Hannah Fearn reports
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
University noncommittal on 'fractional scheme' to stave off redundancies. John Morgan writes
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
The fate of the University of Cumbria lies in the hands of funding chiefs as it waits to hear whether it will be fined £1 million for recruiting...
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
Professor who practises what he preaches sees class enrolment soar. Rebecca Attwood reports
10 March 2010, 4:00 pm
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I’m in Milwaukee for SIGCSE this week. I love this conference most for the informal conversations that take place. having been coming to SIGCSE...
10 March 2010, 8:34 pm
Over the weekend for the second time in about three weeks a teacher asked my about creating arrays of controls in Visual basic .NET. Interestingl...
9 March 2010, 6:11 am
Well last week was another interesting week for me. I finished it off with a short trip to Houston TX for the annual HP Code Wars high school pr...
8 March 2010, 8:09 am
I have no idea where this came from originally but it showed up on the AP CS mailing list this week. On one level it is very funny especially if ...
5 March 2010, 3:20 am
Are you an educator responsible for providing technology training to colleagues? Do you frequently lead teachers with best practices on how to in...
4 March 2010, 9:58 am
Maybe you are the sort who likes their news to come on paper. Or perhaps you just like your news in regularly scheduled chunks. Perhaps you like ...
4 March 2010, 5:50 am
Well Barbie has a new career as a computer engineer. She looks pretty cool in her Binary patterned blouse, Bluetooth headset, net book and PDA. W...
3 March 2010, 8:11 am
One of the first things I do in the morning is check Twitter. I start with my calendar and my email of course. You never know what your boss may ...
2 March 2010, 3:19 am
Is it March that comes in like a lion and out like a lamb? Well up here in New Hampshire February left like a lion. At one point Thursday some 40...
1 March 2010, 1:54 am
It's never a good idea to send an email or post to a blog when you are emotional, upset or angry. Bearing this in mind, I'll share the following ...
11 March 2010, 6:24 pm
These are my notes from the March 10, 2010 Oklahoma City Podcasting Club meeting, led by Chad Henderson. Chad's podcast is Elmocast. The OKC Podc...
10 March 2010, 6:12 pm
Are students in your school allowed to bring their own laptops? Some teachers not only oppose the idea of students working on laptops, they also ...
10 March 2010, 3:34 pm
Thanks to Matt Montagne, I learned about the recently released documentary film, "The Race to Nowhere, The Darkside of America's Achievement Cult...
10 March 2010, 2:56 pm
The folks at Penguin books have been doing some imagineering, inspired by the soon-to-be released iPad:
The imminent launch of the iPad has galva...
10 March 2010, 6:14 am
Texting and driving is a big problem with teens as well as adults. According to PEW's November 2009 report, "Teens and Distracted Driving:"
One ...
9 March 2010, 7:26 pm
These are my notes from Curtis Bonk's presentation, "Blended Learning Jazz: Spontaneous, Improvisational, and Smooth" at the 2010 Heartland eLear...
9 March 2010, 1:56 pm
These are my notes from Shay Rahm-Barnett, Mark McCoy, and Elaine Bartgis' presentation "Mystified, Terrified, or Satisfied: Communication as Mot...
9 March 2010, 12:49 pm
These are my notes from Berlin Fang and Luke Hartman's presentation "Putting Learning In Student Pockets: Mobile Learning at Oklahoma Christian U...
9 March 2010, 11:48 am
It’s a stress-relieving sprint—in underwear—that students love and administrators hate.
11 March 2010, 2:33 pm
In an effort to save money, Kansas’s student government looks at the student newspaper.
11 March 2010, 1:59 pm
Think tank scholars say efforts by colleges and universities to become accountable are flawed.
11 March 2010, 12:29 pm
Here are 13 types of college students that professors would love to avoid.
10 March 2010, 1:23 pm
Entrepreneurial instincts help student invent more comfortable dorm chairs.
10 March 2010, 12:19 pm
Earnings will be sent to an organization that helps homeless youth.
10 March 2010, 11:23 am
New technology saves one Harvard undergrad a treacherous night in a school library.
9 March 2010, 12:57 pm
Virginia’s public university students are angry with state’s attorney general over gay rights.
9 March 2010, 11:53 am
The Harry Potter star will act in a student production of an Anton Chekhov play.
8 March 2010, 1:33 pm
Today, many parents will be putting their children on to buses, cars or bikes and seeing them on their way to school. Sadly for the parents of 72...
11 March 2010, 4:05 pm
A lesbian student at a school in Mississippi wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. So the school cancelled itIf all those John Hughes movies...
11 March 2010, 3:54 pm
Designation brought in millions of extra visitors and pounds in 2008, says researchIt may not have been an unalloyed critical triumph, but Liverp...
11 March 2010, 3:37 pm
Raised blood pressure accounts for over 50% of risk of stroke and other vascular problems, study concludesVariations in blood pressure are better...
11 March 2010, 11:50 am
The closure of almost half of Kansas City's schools shows what can happen when the wealthy opt out, and services sufferTwenty-nine out of 61 Kans...
11 March 2010, 11:00 am
Schools must devise new ways to teach children the importance of intellectual property, says the FDA presidentThe Oscar-winning head of the body ...
11 March 2010, 8:22 am
New school figures out today show school choice across England. Find out the figures where you live• Get the dataThe school admission figures a...
11 March 2010, 5:22 am
Schools adjudicator clamps down on parents who deceive to get their children into the best state schools• Datablog: get the data behind this st...
11 March 2010, 4:50 am
The data is unequivocal: investing in scientific research during times of recession results in economic growthOn Tuesday night, the science repre...
11 March 2010, 3:30 am
(Nanyang Technological University) Distinguished speaker, Professor Jean-Pierre Jeannet, the F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(Springer) The German National Library of Science and Technology and the German National Library of Medicine have signed an extensive and ground-...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(North Carolina State University) Getting children involved in finding ways to become more physically active can not only make them more aware of...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(University of Granada) Contrary to what many parents think, video games are not a determining factor in obtaining a good academic result, accord...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(American Institute of Physics) The March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) -- the largest physics meeting of the year -- will take ...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(University of Arizona) The patterns of collaboration between Wikipedia contributors have a direct effect on the data quality of an article, acco...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(University of Minnesota) High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likel...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(Nanyang Technological University) Nanyang Technological University and National Instruments today formalized an agreement to launch the NTU-NI W...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
(American Association of Anatomists) The Board of Directors of the American Association of Anatomists has approved a set of guidelines to govern ...
9 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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Below are this week's public, free, and interactive webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on f...
9 March 2010, 12:30 pm
Date: Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Time: 5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern / 1:00am (next day) GMT (int'l times here)Location: In Elluminate...
9 March 2010, 11:16 am
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1 March 2010, 6:39 am
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15 February 2010, 10:16 am
Capitol Hill parents, who have played a key role in the revival of elementary schools in Ward 6, are asking Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee for a maj...
11 March 2010, 10:24 am
Federal education officials have singled out Alexandria's only public high school as among the nation's poorest-performing schools, putting it on...
11 March 2010, 9:25 am
Maryland and several other states are pushing rapidly toward adoption of new academic standards proposed Wednesday for English and math, adding m...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
An extra student might have to squeeze into Montgomery County classrooms next year, and county schools are preparing for other cuts that go beyon...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
The head of the Washington Archdiocese's Catholic schools will step down in June to lead a center at Boston College, she announced Wednesday.
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Ever wonder how Shaw Junior High School got its name? Or Stevens Elementary?
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
Unemployment rates rose in the District, Maryland and Virginia in January, a shift that economists said could be a positive sign for the economy ...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
You saw the big headline on the front of our Metro section recently: "Deep budget cuts approved for Prince George's schools." The news from North...
10 March 2010, 9:00 pm
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The measure would establish a performance-pay fund for teachers that would be bankrolled through wind and solar energy leases on land owned by th...
11 March 2010, 7:45 am
The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close 29 of the district’s 61 schools in a desperate bid to avoid a po...
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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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Se trata de Cengotitabengoa, identificado como uno de los que huyó de la casa que ETA utilizaba como base al norte de Lisboa.
11 March 2010, 6:44 pm
Un ex colaborador de George W. Bush defendió el uso de métodos severos de interrogación como el tormento de toca.
11 March 2010, 4:45 pm
Cinco parejas del mismo sexo contrajeron legalmente matrimonio en el DF, a pesar de la oposición de grupos conservadores.
11 March 2010, 4:41 pm
Ankara respondió así a una resolución del Parlamento sueco, que calificó de "genocidio" la matanza de armenios.
11 March 2010, 3:32 pm
Más de 4.000 casos de dengue se registran en lo que va del año, 3,5 veces más que en el mismo período en 2009.
11 March 2010, 3:28 pm
Dos miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad y los restos de un policía que murió en cautiverio serían entregados por las FARC.
11 March 2010, 1:06 pm
Un sismo de 6,9 grados golpeó este jueves la zona central de Chile en medio de las ceremonias de traspaso del poder.
11 March 2010, 12:28 pm
El director de Microsoft le dijo a la BBC que la comunicación será cada vez más virtual. ¿Cuáles son los pros y los contras?
11 March 2010, 7:59 am
Una operación de trasplante de piel podría ser una forma efectiva de tratar la enfermedad de vitíligo, dicen investigadores.
11 March 2010, 7:49 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
I have had friends ask me what I think of our neighborhood school, and my answer is quite simple. I tell them, "The school is only as good a...
8 March 2010, 7:05 pm
As mentioned in a previous post there has been a recent trend of students facing school disciplinary procedures for off-campus activities and beh...
8 March 2010, 6:51 am
When I think back to my days in the classroom the most important moments happened when I looked past the hardened sneer of a difficult student to...
7 March 2010, 11:11 am
Ok, so we all know someone or know someone who knows someone who took an online course. We all see the increasing popularity of universities like...
6 March 2010, 4:28 am
I would like to start this post with a short anecdote: A friend of mine called me this fall and told me that he was feeling very downtrodden. He ...
28 February 2010, 11:02 am
"The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two hun...
28 February 2010, 10:16 am
For as long as I can remember educators have tried to figure out how to infuse more technology into our daily school lives. There has been great ...
20 February 2010, 10:29 am
This entry has been cross posted to Sentiments On Common Sense. I just returned from a trip to the U.S. to hire some teachers for my school. Thos...
19 February 2010, 9:00 pm
"What do you mean I only got a 2? They were all on task. They were all looking at me." It's no longer about the eyes and whether or not...
19 February 2010, 6:47 am
A state-funded college scholarship program would be expanded in three years to include home-schooled students under a compromise offered in the S...
11 March 2010, 8:08 pm
Georgia's first- and second-graders are one step closer to not having to take standardized tests and school districts in the state are a step clo...
11 March 2010, 3:53 pm
A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesda...
11 March 2010, 11:32 am
Many people are rediscovering the benefits of board games, while teachers are incorporating board games into lesson plans.
11 March 2010, 7:11 am
The San Francisco school board has approved a controversial new system for determining where students attend school.
11 March 2010, 5:58 am
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education named New York as one of the 16 finalist states for its Race to the Top Fund, a program that would aw...
11 March 2010, 1:41 am
It isn't the first time a Fox News commentator has taken on the public education system's assumed liberal bias, but months after the initial rele...
10 March 2010, 9:19 pm
Classes were cancelled for the day at Lincoln High School in Warren after a fire broke out in a portion of the building that is under constructio...
10 March 2010, 4:49 pm
Acknowledging that the designation of San Juan School as one of the state's lowest performing is "a bit embarrassing," the interim superintendent...
10 March 2010, 12:14 pm
As a former English teacher, and as someone who believes that programs that work should continue, I'm very deeply dismayed by the Department of E...
9 March 2010, 8:48 pm
At some point in time, I think we have to start asking ourselves what is going on at the US Department of Education. Just this week, Secretary Du...
25 February 2010, 9:44 pm
