Education Stories AIM tech education group plans expansion into more cities. The Omaha World Herald - Apr 16, 2013 An Omaha organization that promotes technology education and careers plans to expand to 15 to 25 more cities in the next five years. The AIM Institute will announce the expansion along with a new... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Schools demanding news literacy lessons to teach students how to find fact amid fiction. The Washington Post - Apr 16, 2013 When Ife Adelona saw a picture of singer Selena Gomez as an adult magazine covergirl circulating on Twitter, the 17-year-old knew what she had to do. “I immediately went for a second source to... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Where do you want to go to college? The NY Times - Apr 16, 2013 All year, The Choice blog has been sharing stories from high school seniors who are navigating the college application process, and in “Colleges Report 2013 Acceptance Rates,” Tanya Abrams writes... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Common core testing begins in NY, but – but are exams ready for prime time? The Washington Post - Apr 16, 2013 Students in various grades in New York schools will start taking high-stakes standardized tests on Tuesday that, for the first time, are supposedly aligned to the Common Core State Standards. School... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Doubts remain about usefulness of Common Core Standards Education News - Apr 16, 2013 Even though the basics of the Common Core Standards have been set, and even though the majority of the states have agreed to adopt them, questions as to their ultimate usefulness in the classroom... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Bush, Obama focus on standardized testing leads to ‘opt out’ parents’ movement. The Washington Post - Apr 15, 2013 A decade into the school accountability movement, pockets of resistance to standardized testing are sprouting up around the country, with parents and students opting out of the high-stakes tests used... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Before tougher state tests, officials prepare parents. The Wall Street Journal - Apr 15, 2013 The city’s Department of Education launched an ad blitz Monday to get the message out that students are being held to higher standards, the day before students start taking tougher state tests. Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Student math scores rise with longer day Education Week - Apr 15, 2013 A longer school day may help students' math performance, according to an evaluation of the expanded learning time schools in New York City, New Orleans, and Baltimore after one year of... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Your lesson’s first five minutes: Make them grand. Edutopia - Apr 15, 2013 If you have ever lived with another person and come home to find them in a bad mood, how long did it take you to figure it out? Hours? Minutes? Seconds? Most people say "seconds," and some can tell... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 ABCs of America’s most challenging high schools. The Washington Post - Apr 13, 2013 We take the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year and divide by the number of seniors... Recommend It : Average (0 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 « Previous Next »