BOSTON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ — Students need to begin training in the sciences and math as early as pre-kindergarten for success in today’s global economy, according to a report released today by Wheelock College’s Aspire Institute. The report, commissioned by the John Adams Innovation Institute of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, recommends the establishment of a [...]

According to a new report, one out of every four rural students fails to graduate from high school, a problem that owes largely to a lack of attention to the needs of rural schools. From changing Title I formulas to providing cutting-edge technology, it’s time to provide more support to those who need it most, [...]

In a recent survey, a majority of students said that while their science and math teachers seem knowledgeable and keep class interesting, they aren’t teaching about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career options. High school students also said they don’t believe STEM knowledge is integral to getting a good job, which doesn’t bode well [...]

Robotic devices that detect not only being touched but also where and how much force was applied are being developed by researchers in the US and the UK.

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Media Lab have commissioned touch-technology material developer Peratech to create a new type of electronic ’skin’ that will give [...]

President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 calls for sweeping changes to programs within the U.S. Department of Education (ED), including a restructuring of federal education technology grants.
Under Obama’s budget plan, the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program—the largest single source of federal funding for school technology hardware, software, and professional development—would be [...]

How to work with well-meaning but demanding moms and dads.
Written by Susan Gregory Thomas
Not long ago, administrators at a small private school in New York City were reorganizing two mixed-grade elementary classrooms. Looking at the third grade, they determined that one girl was particularly well suited to switch from one class to the other: She [...]

A new site for educators, TeacherTube, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator’s version. According to TeacherTube’s founders, “We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.”
To read more about TeacherTube, please visit Edutopia.org
Also, check out pcsedu on TeacherTube for [...]

“My name is Macbeth / I’m the Thane of Glamis. / I might not be the king / but I’m still hella famous.”
Terry, a student at Toronto’s York Mills Collegiate Institute, wrote that rap for his tenth-grade English class as part of a music video depicting William Shakespeare’s famous play Macbeth. “We got 100 percent on it!” [...]

For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that children could not learn math at all before the age of 5, that their brains simply were not ready. But recent research has turned that assumption on its head – that, and a host of other conventional wisdom about geometry, reading, language and self-control [...]

A robot has become the first of its kind to make a scientific discovery by solving a problem that human researchers have failed to crack for decades.
The robot, called Adam, was able to work out where an important gene would be located and to develop experiments to prove its theory. It had been [...]