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1/17/2012

As anxiety over the academic performance of public schools grows, experts say it's likely that more schools and school districts will lose public or private accreditation.

1/17/2012

SMART Technologies Inc. announces the release of the LightRaise 40wi interactive projector. The LightRaise projector is a pen-enabled, ultra-short-throw projector that can turn nearly any surface into an interactive learning space.

1/17/2012

Rhyme & Reason, a Connecticut based clothing company, is pleased to announce its first ever student t-shirt design competition in partnership with the Kids In Need Foundation.

1/17/2012

Starting this February, science and STEM educators can participate in one of Vernier Software & Technology’s 30 free nationwide workshops

1/17/2012

Getty Images announced the launch of its Mishmash music video remix competition for 2012, helping to inspire and foster video creatives of the future.

1/16/2012

A noted science education organization Monday announced a turn to battling climate science naysayers.

1/16/2012

Cal Grants, the state-funded financial aid for California higher education students, could become much harder to obtain for new students under restrictions proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown as part of his 2012-2013 budget.

1/16/2012

There are new key trends that I see emerging in education enabled by advancing technology: namely decentralization and gamification. By understanding these trends, it is much easier to imagine why we won’t need teachers or why we can free up today’s teachers to be mentors and coaches.

1/16/2012

Jocelyn Jordan commutes to Western High School to play for the girls’ basketball team because her school doesn’t have a squad. As Sun sports editor Ray Brewer reported, sometimes she makes it on time, sometimes she doesn’t.

1/16/2012

Georgia schools would see a modest financial boost under a budget that Republican Gov. Nathan Deal proposed last week, though they would not recoup more than $1 billion in state funding lost over the past few years.

1/16/2012

Students may not have to wait for Idaho to roll out a statewide laptop program before they get their hands on a new computer.

1/16/2012

Lagging state funding and declining births put more pressure on school officials to find ways to entice and retain students.

1/16/2012

More than a third of the students in Boston public high schools were chronically absent last year, even as the city undertook additional efforts to lure students to school, according to a Globe analysis. 

1/16/2012

As Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday passes, many American youth lack adequate knowledge of his role, and that of many others, in the civil rights movement.

1/12/2012

After years of soaring toward the top, Florida fell from fifth to 11th in a nationwide education ranking, a drop driven largely by weaker student performance and spending cuts.

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