» Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Show
10/02/12 04:13 from NYT > Education
The widening achievement gap between affluent and low-income students has received less attention than the divide between white and black students, which has narrowed.

» 10 States Given Waivers From ‘No Child Left Behind’ Law
10/02/12 03:50 from NYT > Education
The states — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, New Jersey and Tennessee — will have to set new performance targets.

» Tuba Thefts Plague California Schools
10/02/12 03:49 from NYT > Education
The popularity of banda music, in which the tuba plays a dominant role, is seen by some as the cause of a recent rash of thefts.

» Reinventing Education…The Khan Academy and Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Class
10/02/12 00:40 from Educational Technology
by Google+ Hangouts Join Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun discuss the future of technology in education. Using a Google+ Hangout, these three leaders in massive open online learning dis..

» Chicago News Cooperative: Suburban Chicago Schools Lag as Bilingual Needs Grow
10/02/12 00:36 from NYT > Education
Chicago’s suburbs are home to an increasing number of Latino and other immigrant families, but schools there frequently fail to meet state rules to provide bilingual programs.

» Use of Braille is decreasing, but school still teaches it
10/02/12 00:30 from Educational Technology
BY Jeff Natalie-Lees, Aberdeen News Jordan Houseman, a 10-year-old student at the South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Aberdeen, is one of the 10 percent of the blind nationwide who are learning to read and write Brai..

» The Learning Network Blog: It's All an Allusion: Identifying Allusions, in Literature and in Life
10/02/12 00:20 from NYT > Education
Lesson | What is an allusion? In this lesson, students read an essay about allusions in literature, take a quiz in which they identify allusions, then choose from a variety of activities to go deeper.

» 12-year-old app creator goes ‘above and beyond’
10/02/12 00:10 from Educational Technology
by IRA PORTER, The News Journal There are now more than 500,000 iPhone apps, and one of them is the creation of Rumi Khan, a 12-year-old student at Newark Charter School. The Delaware Department of Education recently recognized Rumi's effo..

» Virginia Home Schoolers Make a Play to Join High School Teams
10/02/12 00:00 from NYT > Education
A bill in Virginia would permit home-schooled students to play varsity sports at public high schools, raising concerns about fairness, recruiting and oversight.

» SchoolBook: The School-Closing Vote
09/02/12 23:18 from NYT > Education
UPDATED | In what has become an annual spectacle, a city board will vote Thursday night on the closing of nearly two dozen public schools for poor performance, an event that in the past has drawn hundreds of protestors and vigorous union op..

» F.B.I. Seeks Victims of School Aide Accused of Sex Abuse
09/02/12 21:57 from NYT > Education
Investigators returned to an elementary school in Crown Heights to continue an inquiry after a teacher’s aide, Taleek Brooks, was charged on Tuesday with producing child pornography, possibly at the school.

» Rhodes Trust Gives Account of Quarterback’s Candidacy
09/02/12 20:42 from NYT > Education
The Rhodes Trust confirmed that it had put on hold the candidacy of the quarterback, Patrick J. Witt, upon learning that a fellow student had filed a complaint against him.

» SchoolBook: Cobble Hill Parents Sue to Block Success Academy 3
09/02/12 19:06 from NYT > Education
Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy charter schools are in the news on Thursday, again as the target of a lawsuit to try to stop her from establishing a new school, this time in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

» Editorial: Successes of Small Schools
09/02/12 17:40 from NYT > Education
A study provides sound evidence that New York City students at small, specialized high schools are more likely to graduate than students in large, traditional high schools.

» 10 States Given Waivers From No Child Left Behind Law
09/02/12 16:42 from NYT > Education
The states — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, New Jersey and Tennessee — will have to set new performance targets.

» Lives: Dazed and Confused
09/02/12 16:12 from NYT > Education
How skipping school in late-’70s New York became a lesson in the costs of dropping out.

» The Learning Network Blog: Poetry Pairing | 'A Lover'
09/02/12 15:27 from NYT > Education
This week's matches Amy Lowell's two-line poem, "A Lover," with a 2011 video about synchronous fireflies that put on a "light show" each June in Tennessee, as well as a 2001 Science article that explores how fireflies control their glow.

» Virginia Home-Schoolers Make a Play to Join High School Teams
09/02/12 14:10 from NYT > Education
A bill in Virginia would permit home-schooled students to play varsity sports at public high schools, raising concerns about fairness, recruiting and oversight.

» SchoolBook: City to Vote on School Closings After Weeks of Hearings
09/02/12 13:28 from NYT > Education
After weeks of hearings, many of them emotionally wrenching, the Panel for Educational Policy will decide Thursday night which schools in the city they will close -- partially or entirely -- for academic failure.

» The Learning Network Blog: How Do Male and Female Roles Differ in Your Family?
09/02/12 12:17 from NYT > Education
Tell us about the gender roles in your house. Who would you say does most of the "parenting," whether that means helping with homework, cooking meals, attending school functions or just being home most often--and whether it's done by a moth..