UK Parents Critical of SATs Exams Form Group, Protest
(Image: WikiMedia) Thousands of parents across England are planning to keep their children home from school on Tuesday, May 3 as a form of protest over a difficult new national exam. As part of the nationwide Let Our Kids Be Kids campaign, Year 2 parents are planning to take their children out of school on May 3 in protest over the testing of six More...
Facebook Course Pages, Groups Can Increase MOOC Engagement
(Image: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A new study suggests that Facebook could help to keep students engaged while participating in massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The study compared MOOC student use of course-related More...
CEOs, Governors Join to Push Computer Science to Congress
(Image: janeb13, Pixabay, Creative Commons) America’s leading CEOs, governors, and educators sent an open letter to Congress imploring legislators to provide every student in every school an opportunity to learn More...
Amazon Liable for Kids’ Unauthorized In-App Purchases
(Image: WikiMedia) Amazon has been found liable by a federal court for charging parents whose kids made unauthorized in-app purchases on a range of electronic devices. The court agreed with the Federal Trade Commission More...
Despite Protests, Yale Keeps Calhoun College Name
(Image: Yale University) Yale President Peter Salovey has announced that Calhoun College, one of the 12 undergraduate residential colleges on campus, will be keeping its name in an effort to push the school to More...
2016 National Teacher Of The Year Credits Her Own Teachers For Success
(Image: CBS News) The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) runs a program to find and honor the most exceptional teachers in the country. This year the National Teacher of the Year is Jahana Hayes, who More...
Report Finds School Choice Benefits Public Schools, Too
(Image: Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons) The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to researching and promoting school choice for children, has released More...
Despite More Tech Use, Australia Computer Literacy Skills Decline
Results of national information and communication technology tests show that computer literacy skills have declined across Australia over the past three years despite an increase in the use of laptops and iPads. The More...
Study: Alaska Teacher Pay Plan Would Help, But Cost Too Much
A new study completed for the Alaskan legislature by University Alaska Anchorage’s Center for Alaska Education Policy Research argues that implementing a standardized salary schedule for teachers in the state More...
Closing Underperforming NYC Schools Worked, Study Shows
Critics were harsh when Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed dozens of large high school that were failing in New York City. They claimed the mayor was destroying communities and neighborhood institutions. But this week a More...
