Youth Risk Behavior Survey Shows Improvements
(Photos: Pexels, Creative Commons) According to a biannual report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, high school students across the country are continuing to lose interest in having sex, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes or marijuana despite the pot laws relaxing in several states. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, More...
Coding Dojo, Bellevue College Partner for Coding Boot Camps
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Coding Dojo, a pioneer of coding boot camps, and Bellevue College Continuing Education have announced a partnership aimed at delivering continuing education courses that will More...
Chipotle Moves to Expand Tuition Reimbursement Program
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Chipotle Mexican Grill has announced a new partnership with Guild Education in an effort to offer employees of the company the opportunity to earn college credits and obtain undergraduate More...
Oregon Outdoor School Funding Up for Approval in November
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) If Oregonians approve an expected bill on the November ballot, every fifth- or sixth-grade student in the state would be sent to a week-long, overnight, outdoor school. If More...
Movement for Black Lives Policy Agenda Includes Halting Charter Schools
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A coalition of more than 50 black-led organizations known collectively as the Movement for Black Lives has released a policy platform on a variety of topics, from prisons and More...
Texas ‘Clock Boy’ Suing School District, Principal and City
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Almost one year after 14-year old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, his family has brought a lawsuit against his former school district in More...
UK Watchdog Cracks Down on ‘Bogus’ Universities
(Photo: Beta News) More than 30 fake universities have been shut down in the past year by the Higher Education Degree Datacheck (HEDD) in the United Kingdom, an organization that investigates bogus institutions. HEDD More...
Edgenuity Broadens Offerings with Compass Learning Acquisition
(Photo: Public Domain, Creative Commons) Education technology company Edgenuity has acquired fellow software company Compass Learning, which has been in business for more than 40 years. Edgenuity of Scottsdale, More...
In Rare Move, Apple Gun Emoji to Be Changed to Squirt Gun
(Photo: Emojipedia) In what seems to be an effort to decrease the amount of gun violence portrayed in popular media images, Apple will be replacing the pistol emoji with a lime green squirt gun in the iOS 10 More...
Japan Curriculum Changes Include More English, Expression
(Photo: Wang Hongying, Creative Commons) New teaching guidelines in Japan have been released in an interim report by the Central Council for Education, an advisory body to the education minister, that include a More...