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It costs a lot to run a school district, as East Penn School District Superintendent Thomas Seidenberger can attest. Besides the salaries and supplies his budget has to cover, there are the costs to heat the buildings, fuel the buses and keep the schools sparkling.

In the past few years, East Penn has added a [...]

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By: Ruth Reynard

What is amazing to me is that most classrooms and even some virtual learning spaces are still designed with a type of learning in mind that is constrained, fixed and teacher-driven. That is, most classrooms still suffer from what I call “the fireplace” syndrome in which something has to be fixed to [...]

Teaching deaf students involves more than scholastics, especially in areas where the deaf population is much smaller than the national average. In Kentucky, for example, only 3 percent are deaf, compared with 10 percent nationwide, which makes it difficult for students to interact with deaf people outside of the perimeter of the school.

“When you think [...]

Source: washingtonpost.com

By: Maria Glod

A team of very smart teenagers has set out to discover ways that maggots might make the world a better place. Two are from Loudoun County. Two live more than 9,000 miles away in Singapore.

To many U.S. politicians, educators and business leaders, Singapore’s students have become a symbol of the fierce competition [...]

Source: thejournal.com

By: David Nagel

Five states have committed to developing green career and technical education initiatives. In collaboration with the United States Department of Education, the Education Department’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education, and the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, the states will create secondary and post-secondary programs that will lead to… [...]

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By: Zach Miners

At the University of Texas-Dallas, history professor Monica Rankin needed a better way to get students involved in the classroom. The 90-person lecture hall was too big for back-and-forth conversation. So, with help from students in the school’s emerging media program, she had her students set up accounts on Twitter—a micro-blogging service—and [...]

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By: Dian Schaffhauser

Drexel University in Philadelphia, Utrecht University in The Netherlands, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, and the University of Bath have all gone public in the last several months with deployments of lecture capture systems within classrooms. Do those increasingly common installations define a new baseline operating requirement for [...]

Source: chronicle.com

Over at The Chronicle’s Brainstorm blogs, Mark Bauerlein raised some interesting questions this week about students’ views of cheating.

Mr. Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, points to a new survey showing that about half of students have used their cellphones or other technology to cheat, and that many students do not consider [...]

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By: Geoffrey H. Fletcher

“Technology is core and essential to the strategies we are using to reform education.” That was the message from both Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement at the United States Department of Education, and Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer in the White House.

Sitting comfortably in overstuffed chairs on [...]

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By: Bridget McCrea

Candace Hackett Shively was helping teachers maximize technology before anyone had even coined the title, “technology education integrator.” The year was 2000, and Shively had already spent several years figuring out ways to bridge the gap between rapidly evolving technological applications and the educational field.

“When I told people my job title nine [...]