Early start for language lessons
Schoolchildren in Liverpool are to start learning foreign languages at the age of three.
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VH1 Save The Music Honored With CTPAA’S Golden Beacon Award For Campaign to Restore Music Education in America’s Public Schools
VH1 Save The Music Receives Highest Honors From Cable Television Public Affairs Association; VH1 Save The Music Also Receives 2001 Beacon Award For Best Educational Series or Campaign By A Cable Network
Manhattan Schools Overcrowded: Classrooms Bursting at the Seams
NEW YORK: Today, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY) released a United States Congressional Report that shows overcrowding in a staggering 85% of kindergarten through third grade classrooms in Manhattan school districts one through four. Parents and school officials joined Representative Maloney at P.S. 290 in District 2, to discuss the challenges they face in providing […]
Students from across nation to present Jupiter results to JPL
A few of the 2,300 students from 13 states who have used a huge remote-control radio telescope to measure energy from Jupiter’s radiation belts during the past six months will present their results May 4 to scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Teachers learning technology
RIDGELAND – Jasper County’s teachers are going back to school, but their teachers acknowledge it might take them 10 years to be able to compete with other school districts. Educators from the University of South Carolina Beaufort, partnering with the Jasper County School District, are training teachers and administrators to tackle education’s newest frontier – […]
Bethel Park Selects CompassLearning™ as Part of Long-range Plan to Integrate Technology into the Classroom
SAN DIEGO, CA—The Bethel Park School District has entered into an agreement with CompassLearning™ to provide standards-based curriculum and assessment software and companion professional development on 50 computers in each of the five elementary schools. This initiative is part of the District’s long-range plan to effectively integrate technology into the learning environment. According to the […]
Pupils of the future who could log on to school
PLANS for a hi-tech school where every pupil can opt out of lessons and log on from home via lap-top computers are under discussion in one of Scotlands most isolated communities.
Teaching the Teachers
New requirements for the Microsoft Certified Training (MCT) program help technology instructors stay ahead of change and maintain the flexibility they need to serve their students needs.
Heres what it takes to be tech savvy
A collaborative team of national school leaders has released a first-of-its-kind set of standards defining what K-12 school administrators should know about, and be able to do with, technology.
Feeling heat of competition, public schools try advertising
The monopoly power of public schools is starting to crumble, and a new attitude toward recruiting, marketing, and service is rising in its place.