Articles Follow Florida's Lead: Why More States Should Switch to Digital Textbooks in Schools Now All of Florida's public schools will switch to digital textbooks by 2015. Yes, it sounds expensive, but other states should be following suit.Liz Dwyer19 Jun, 2011
Articles Uruguay's Schools Give Each Kid a Laptop, While America Twiddles Its Thumbs One-to-one laptop programs in America are still novelties. In Uruguay, all elementary students have had a laptop since 2009.Liz Dwyer15 Jun, 2011
Articles “The Modern Educator Is Not a Teacher”: Updating Learning for the 21st Century Classrooms operate almost the same way they did 100 years ago. A group of of middle schoolers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area want to change that.Liz Dwyer26 May, 2011
Articles Schools Are Helping Devastated Japanese Communities Recover Students say that getting back to something familiar—school—helps them deal with the stress of living in shelters and having lost loved ones.Liz Dwyer15 May, 2011
Articles Inquiring Minds Want to Know: The White House Fields Kids' Questions on Bin Laden Our media-savvy White House hosted a webinar to give students a nuts-and-bolts backgrounder on 9/11, Bin Laden, and the raid.Liz Dwyer08 May, 2011
Articles Eighth Grader's 9/11 Documentary Set to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival "The Second Day" tells the first-hand story of students and teachers living and working in the area around Ground Zero.Liz Dwyer30 Apr, 2011
Articles Beyoncé's Killing It with These "Let's Move" Videos Check out Beyoncé's new video for the Let's Move campaign against childhood obesity. It's really fun.Liz Dwyer28 Apr, 2011
Articles Afghan Memoir Brought to Life, with Skype, in Maine Classroom Thanks to the free video chat service, a memoir read by seventh graders at Mt. Ararat Middle School in Maine came to life.Liz Dwyer24 Apr, 2011
Articles Judge Gives Philly Area Students the Right to "Heart" Boobies Two students who got in trouble last October for wearing the "I (heart) Boobies! (Keep A Breast)" bracelets are vindicated by a federal judge.Liz Dwyer15 Apr, 2011
Articles Would a Laptop for Every Student Help? In Maine It Certainly Did Since 2001, Maine's invested in laptops for every student. Now they're leading the world in tech education.Liz Dwyer24 Mar, 2011
Articles Technology and Teachers: The Rise of the Hybrid School What if tech tools could be used to provide a completely customizable education experience throughout the entire school day?Liz Dwyer21 Mar, 2011
Articles Report Backs Up the Idea That College Shouldn't Be the Goal You won't need a B.A. in anthropology to be an electrician or a dental hygienist.Liz Dwyer06 Feb, 2011
Articles Should We Ease Kids Into Middle School? Sixth grade academies are popping up to help students bridge the step up from primary school.Nikhil Swaminathan24 Nov, 2010