ClassDojo Offers ‘Student Stories’ to Share with Parents
(Photo: ClassDojo) The popular ClassDojo app has announced that it will be adding Student Stories to its services to help students share photos and videos of their classroom creations with their parents. Students can add records of their classroom activities to their stories without login credentials and without having their own devices. The app already More...
Benefits of Flossing Questioned as Research Falls Short
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Daily dental flossing has been recommended by dentists and even the federal government for decades based on the idea that it prevented cavities and insured healthy gums — More...
PBS’ Spotlight Education Week to Debut in September
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) PBS has announced the creation of Spotlight Education, a full week of primetime programming that will focus on the challenges currently faced by students and the education system More...
Supreme Court Grants Emergency Order in Transgender Bathroom Case
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) The Supreme Court has put a judge’s order on hold that would have allowed a transgender teen in Virginia to use the boys’ bathroom at his local high school. Gavin More...
New Jersey Board of Ed: All Graduating Students Must Pass PARCC
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Students in New Jersey who enter the eighth grade in the coming academic year will be facing a new graduation requirement when they become seniors in 2021 — the pupils More...
EdSec King Praises Colorado Early Childhood Ed Efforts
(Photo: AP) US Secretary of Education John King visited Denver this week to applaud the state’s success in using a new system for rating child care centers. Following the $ 44 million the state received More...
Dept of Ed Proposes New Distance Learning Regulations
(Photo: David Scavone, USC) The US Department of Education has proposed regulations that seek to improve oversight and protect more than 5.5 million distance education students at degree-granting institutions More...
Kenya Schools Hit By Wave of Arson, Over 100 Institutions Burned
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Over a hundred government secondary schools in Kenya have been set on fire this year in Kenya with varying reports as to the reasons behind the wave of arson incidents. Some More...
AI, Education Technology Pioneer Seymour Papert Dies at 88
(Photo: Getty Images) Seymour Papert, a pioneer of constructionist learning and AI pioneer, died this weekend at the age of 88. Papert saw the potential for education in new technologies as far back as the late More...
Colleges, Universities Examining Gender Pronouns on Campus
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) As the number of individuals who identify as someone more complex than male or female continues to increase across the country, traditional gender-based pronouns “he” More...