The National Educational Technology Standards for Students has created a set of characteristics of things most literate students should be able to do. Here are a few of them:
This Wednesday, Nov. 21, GoodBiz113's favorite not-for-profit group is scheduled to be featured on NBC's "TODAY" show. Sometime between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. CST, coverage of Diversity Council's far-reaching Prejudice Reduction Workshops will air...
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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.
Looking for a new career, Joe Nichols went back to school and found the inspiration for Prasolus, his high-tech, educational-enhancement enterprise.
States impact child's future By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer
We've all heard the old promise that going to college and getting a degree will make us happier, smarter, more successful people. We've heard how you can't do anything these days without a degree under your belt. We've heard how a college education is the path to a better life.
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives website is one of the best math tools available to teachers. The resources, lessons, and tools are amazing. I highly recommend browsing through the site.
City schools will expand sex education curriculum to include age-appropriate lessons that begin as early as kindergarten, officials said.
We've seen tons of stories these days about professors recording their lectures and posting them online for download, but one professor in the UK is going even further. He's getting rid of in-person lectures completely.
In the US, the MPAA has been running a project to send biased industry representatives into school to brainwash kids about copyright that (not surprisingly) is extremely biased towards the entertainment industry's position of supporting their business model.
Apple and Pearson on Thursday officially announced an expansion of their relationship to enhance teaching and learning through technology, where Pearson will acquire PowerSchool from Apple and develop educational content for teachers and students compatible with iPod.
A group of middle-school teachers have been reprimanded for sending home a letter seeking to curb so-called boy-on-boy sexual harassment, with a student-compiled list of offending activities that included "ball tapping, tit twisting, [and] pantsing."