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Source: www.nj.com Teachers are always learning, and Centenary College recently hosted a summer teachers' academy that served that goal well. Attendees had the opportunity to learn to engage students with Smartboard, Senteo and iPod interactive technologies and become better equipped to educate, inspire and provide tools necessary for students to become knowledgeable and excited about environmental issues. Participants had the opportunity to choose one of four workshops and spend three days of hands-on… Continue reading

Source: www.eschoolnews.com By: Laura Devaney As part of the Obama administration's emphasis on bringing education into the 21st century, it comes as no surprise that policy makers have trained their focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education as a way to give more students, especially girls and minorities, stronger global skills. And with this increased focus, some education experts say momentum

Source: nytimes.com By: Tamar Lewin In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 percent to 70 percent of the sale price. Students who choose Cengage’s rental option will get immediate access to the first chapter of… Continue reading

Source: www.usatoday.com By: Dan Vergano

Long before President George W. Bush posed his ungrammatical query on the 2000 campaign trail, debate simmered over school testing, vouchers and teaching. And just like in a lot of modern debates, scientists have quietly tackled the underlying questions, offering up new tools, new approaches and even a new discipline, while the… Continue reading

Source: eschoolnews.com By: Maya T. Prabhu Middle and high school students spent a little more than four weeks this summer at McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C., developing the programming and modeling for a prototype of an educational computer game called Immune Attack 3.0. Last year the students used the free educational game to learn, by aiming to make science fun and engaging for students. This year, they're putting their programming

Source: www.courierpress.com By: John Martin Revolutionary change is coming to high schools in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. this year — the introduction of computers as day-to-day teaching tools. EVSC officials say the move is an acknowledgment that today's students are immersed in technology and learn differently than previous generations. They say other schools with one-to-one laptops now consider them an indispensable part of… Continue reading

Source: www.channel4.com The BBC could be asked to clear its schedules for educational programmes if schools are closed due to swine flu, it has emerged. Ministers are understood to have had discussions with the Corporation as part of its "contingency planning" for the pandemic. Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, said: "The Government drew up plans to deal with a flu… Continue reading

Source: www.bordermail.com.au By: Breanna Tucker Baranduda Primary School is preventing its students from turning into cyber-bullies by signing them up to a Facebook site for kids. The school is among the first 100 in Australia to be trying the UK-based SuperClubsPLUS program, which is a social networking site for children aged 6 to 12. The club allows students to chat, send emails, post… Continue reading