Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 3:28pm
A sea of iPads were swarming through the bleacher's at Forreston High School on Monday. The school district gave the iPad 2 to five hundred students, from sixth through 12th grade.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 3:25pm
The achievement gap between Hawaii's public school special education students and their peers is wider than the national average, partially because they are isolated more than they should be, an evaluation agency reported this week.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 3:23pm
A funny thing happened on the way to reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the sweeping school-reform law better known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB): The debate over reauthorization has spawned a political alliance between the tea party and the teachers unions.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 3:20pm
Education in Kansas has seen a variety of changes, formats, and emphasis since the days when the 3 Rs were enough for success in life. Reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic alone cannot prepare our children for success in times of mobile and transient populations, constant change, and global competition.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:17am
ViewSonic Corp. announced its industry-leading PJD6 Series DLP projector line, comprised of the PJD6253, PJD6223 and PJD6553w, are Crestron and AMX certified, and all specifically designed for both classroom and corporate environments.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:14am
PresenceLearning, the leading provider of live online speech therapy services to K12 students, provides services to more than 20 online schools across the U.S. for their special education students.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:08am
SkillsTutor, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, announced new cost-effective options for customers to purchase its comprehensive student improvement programs to give customers the option of receiving significant reduction in product pricing, or new hardware solutions for students.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 9:03am
Enertiv, Inc., an electricity monitoring solutions company, won a public bid with the New Haven Public School System to monitor electricity usage at the Ross Woodward School.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:56am
Maplesoft has released the Maple Player for iPad, an application for the iPad that lets users view and interact with documents created in desktop Maple. The Maple Player is free at the App Store.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 8:50am
Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) announced that the National Center for Response to Intervention (NCRTI) now includes Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) and MAP for Primary Grades assessments in Reading and Mathematics.
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