In response to increased interest from educators for more online learning opportunities throughout the year, PBS TeacherLine has expanded its course schedule to eight terms.
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3/5/2012
3/5/2012
Marcie Lindsey, technology facilitator for Georgetown (Texas) ISD and first grade teacher Angela Victory from the New Albany (Miss.) School District were named winners of the coveted education technology grant, which includes MimioClassroom product suite along with Headsprout reading software for their schools.
3/5/2012
PCI Education announces the launch of PCI Reading Program-Level Three Software, a new online component to the award-winning PCI Reading Program, a reading series for students with intellectual disabilities.
3/4/2012
PD developer School Improvement Network released a new set of online, CEU-eligible courses on March 1st, helping educators to stay on top of their game and improve student achievement.
3/4/2012
Vernier Software & Technology’s new LabQuest 2 features faster computing, a large high-resolution screen, wireless data sharing, and five built-in sensors, including GPS.
3/4/2012
Teachscape has partnered with Danielson and is announcing the Framework for Teaching Effectiveness Series and the Professional Learning Suite, Framework Edition to help teachers apply the FFT to their teaching practice.
3/4/2012
Jefferson County (Ky.) Public Schools, serving more than 100,000 students in the greater Louisville market, announced that it has approved eChalk as a software partner for creating School and Teacher Websites.
3/4/2012
A federal fraud investigation that seems to have almost inadvertently put the son of U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.) under the FBI's microscope may be more important for its revelations about a company with a lucrative contract with the Philadelphia School District.
3/4/2012
In 2007 and in 2008, Newsweek magazine recognized Morrisville-Eaton High School as one of the best in the country based on the number of Advanced Placement courses it offered its students. This year, the Madison County school doesn’t have a single AP class. The district jettisoned them as enrollment and state aid dropped, costs rose and it cut staff and spending to balance its budgets.
3/4/2012
Public school leaders across the state have implored the Missouri Legislature to fix a knotty student transfer law and an underfunded school aid formula.
3/4/2012
Apple hopes its foray into digital textbooks for the iPad will impress educators and corner a huge, lucrative K-12 book market. But the high costs of the plan and the challenges of mobile technology could ensure that hardback books remain a classroom mainstay.
3/4/2012
The cracks in the school walls are still spreading. The fire alarms sound too often or don’t sound at all. Mechanics struggle to keep old school buses running one more year. Budget managers try to figure out where the money will come from to fix leaky roofs, wheezing air-conditioners and broken vents.
3/4/2012
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday revised recent remarks in which he said President Barack Obama’s goals for higher education showed him to be a “snob.”
3/4/2012
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposal to encourage small Connecticut school districts to regionalize or else risk losing some state aid is raising concerns among some local leaders who argue that their towns are being unfairly penalized for just being little.
3/4/2012
The Davenport Community School District is using Facebook to connect with students that have dropped out or are thinking about dropping out.
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