An investigation conducted by The Seventy Four into the expense reports of some of the nation’s largest teacher unions has found that member dues are being used to fund luxury hotel stays, limo services and exotic trips.
Education start-up PenPal Schools offers courses that combine technology with a human element by pairing students with pen pals from a pool of over 90 participating countries around the world.
Although most parents and teachers are used to having a relatively informal relationship limited primarily to infrequent phone calls and scheduled conferences, taking that relationship a step further might be a way to improve student... 12/02/2015 - 10:41am ago
The House of Representatives has voted to overhaul the long-expired Bush-era No Child Left Behind Act by voting to replace it with the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Slate senior editor Gabriel Roth understands why teachers want to expand their students’ vocabulary by encouraging rotating synonyms to replace common words like “said” and “thing’ in their writing.
Switching over to blended learning in traditional K-12 school districts is a major change, and one pubic school teacher is making the process easier by beginning with implementing blended learning one day a week.
It seems every consecutive year, a school somewhere makes national news for removing religious references from songs and celebrations during the holiday season in an attempt to avoid excluding non-Christians.
The influence of Google Chromebooks in U.S. classrooms has been steadily increasing and now the devices make up half of all devices used in U.S. classrooms.
A New Mexico judge has halted the use of the state’s teacher evaluation system to administer sanctions or rewards after finding it be ineffective and in-turn harmful to the students it serves.
DonorsChoose.org has partnered with Kia to help schools in need by both providing $500,000 in flash funding to support projects and by training teachers on best practices in crowdfunding.
Despite early controversy about a bonus program for teachers in Florida based on how they scored on college admissions exams, 5,200 teachers will collect over $8,400 from the Best and Brightest Teacher Scholarship Program by April.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) director for education and skills and international education expert Andreas Schleicher argues that survey data from the international PISA assessment supports his belief that... 12/07/2015 - 11:14am ago