Washington (CNN) — Tennessee and Delaware were the only two states designated Monday to receive funds in the first round of the education funding competition “Race to the Top,” federal officials announced.
Delaware will receive $100 million under the program, while Tennessee will receive $500 million.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in the [...]
The science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) industry should make every effort to work from the top down to encourage women and minorities to pursue careers in those fields, according to a study by the Bayer Corp., a health-care and nutrition company.
The Bayer Facts of Science Education XIV survey polled more than 1,200 female, black, Hispanic, [...]
After two sixth-grade teachers at Chaparral Elementary pooled their funds to buy a document camera in 2006, the technology began spreading swiftly throughout California’s Chino Valley Unified School District.
“Other teachers quickly discovered that working with projected images of such things as math problems allowed them to keep an eye on their students,” recalls Karyn Keck, [...]
CAMBRIDGE — Two soccer teammates took the field on a recent Saturday afternoon: one made shot after shot while the other played goalie. The shooter, wearing a distinctive uniform dotted with colorful spots, had just taken a powerful kick when something went wrong. The call went out to stop practice — and to find a hot [...]
Wearing industrial-strength rubber gloves, Jessica Sousa and Danielle Clay poured liquid nitrogen into an empty plastic bottle sandwiched between bricks and wrapped with duct tape.
Sousa tightened the cap, dropped the bottle into a 30-gallon trash can full of water and quickly backed up.
Seconds later, the water erupted, propelling the can several feet into the air [...]
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, [...]
The Obama administration urged educators and policymakers today to embrace a host of digital-learning approaches it says will make K-12 schools better, including putting a computing device in the hands of every student.
Guided by an overarching goal set by President Barack Obama to raise national college-completion rates from 40 percent to 60 percent by 2020, [...]
By Aaron Saenz: Did you ever have a teacher you could have sworn was a robot? Well yours wasn’t, but your child’s might be. The Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the Nippon Institute of Technology (NIT) have fielded robotic teachers in Korea and Japan, respectively.
According to ETNews, robot teachers have passed the [...]
In one of the largest national surveys of public school teachers, thousands of educators agreed that today’s students aren’t college-ready when they graduate from high school. Teachers’ suggestions for solving this problem include clear, common standards; multiple measures of student performance; and greater innovation, including differentiated instruction and more use of digital resources.
The survey, titled [...]
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he favored federal rewards for local school districts that fire underperforming teachers and close failing schools, saying educators needed to be held accountable when they failed to fix chronically troubled classrooms and curb the student dropout rate.
The president outlined his proposal to offer $900 million in federal grants, [...]
