Almost half of U.S. public schools are labeled failing under the federal No Child Left Behind law, compared with the 80 percent estimate President Barack Obama’s administration cited as a rationale for changing its mandates, a study found.
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12/15/2011
A survey by Intel Corporation found that a lack of familiarity with the profession is a significant barrier to getting American teenagers to pursue engineering careers. Yet, exposure to any facts leads more than half of teens to say they are more likely to consider engineering as a career.
12/15/2011
The non-profit education researcher MIND Research Institute announced significant success by the Santa Ana Unified School District in closing the math achievement gap of its predominately minority, high English learner student demographic.
12/15/2011
Kristen Greco, a teacher working to build literacy skills in poor and minority sixth through eighth grade students at a Bronx, NY charter school, will receive 30 year-long subscriptions to Pearson's innovative reading and writing comprehension tool, WriteToLearn
12/15/2011
Worth Ave. Group is pleased to announce the official launch of its 'Technology in Education' grant giveaway program, which is designed to advance educational opportunities with technology across K12 schools nationwide.
12/15/2011
BenQ America Corp., the first DLP brand to incorporate Philips' ImageCare technology into its projector lamp system, announced that it has taken a further leap with the development of its proprietary SmartEco lamp technology to maximize energy savings.
12/15/2011
Avere Systems announced that the Belchertown (Mass.) School District has implemented an Avere Systems FXT Series cluster to improve latency and eliminate the write errors and data corruption it experienced after deploying a new student information system application to allow online access to class material, store work, record attendance and grades.
12/15/2011
Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, announced that Richland (S.C.) School District Two has licensed Ericom AccessNow for VMware View for use by its 30,000 students and staff.
12/14/2011
Google has launched a YouTube for Schools service to make educationally relevant videos available for use in school. It's a great idea, but for it to actually be used in schools, many districts around the country will have to modify their filters to allow teachers to access at least this portion of YouTube.
12/14/2011
Denver District Court Judge Sheila A. Rappaport ordered Dec. 9 that the state of Colorado reform its Public School Finance Act to make sure public education meets the state constitution’s guarantee that the state will provide a “thorough and uniform” system of public schools.
12/14/2011
Jessica Lynch was just 19 when the world first saw her — a broken, blond soldier caught on combat video in Iraq, her face wearing something between a grimace and a grin.
12/14/2011
A statewide coalition of educational leaders decried massive new budget cuts to public schools Wednesday, saying they would consider legal action and pursue new school-funding initiatives.
12/14/2011
A national panel of education experts is lauding Metro school leaders for creating a cooperative culture, effectively training principals and using data to make decisions.
12/14/2011
In the first year of using Zonar V2J, a high definition GPS and real-time vehicle diagnostics device , the district reported a savings of 6,102 gallons of fuel, or $19,560 due to idle time reductions and improved route management.
12/14/2011
Luidia Inc. recently announced a record year propelled by major partnerships with leading technology companies and continued rapid adoption of its eBeam interactive whiteboard technology.
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