Leadership Public Schools, Gooru Join for Personalized Learning Model
(Photo: GoConqr) Leadership Public Schools (LPS), a charter school organization that runs high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, has teamed up with Gooru, a nonprofit educational tech company, to develop technology to support the schools’ personalized learning model and improve student outcomes. Both organizations were trying to find better More...
Children on Vegan Diets Run Risk of Malnutrition, Illness
(Photo: Public Domain Images) In Milan, Italy, a 14-month-old toddler was taken to the hospital earlier this month because the child weighed slightly more than an average three-month-old. The child, who had More...
Deep Content Knowledge Key to High-Quality Teaching
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A new report from the Center on Education and the Economy’s Center on International Education Benchmarking has detailed what they say makes the top-performing education More...
Transgender Students Sue School Districts Over Equal Access
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A Wisconsin school district is being sued by a transgender student who says the district will not let him use the boy’s bathroom and that the district continues to use More...
USDA Dictates Final Rules on Smart Snacks in School Program
(Photo: Evan-Amos, Creative Commons) A USDA has announced to all US schools that unhealthy snacks for students must be eliminated in the 2016-2017 academic year, a move that completes the Smart Snacks in School More...
College Students Spend Less Than 3 Hours Per Day on School
(Photo: Andrew Pons, Creative Commons) A new study has exposed how college students use their time in an effort to inform taxpayers who subsidize federal student loans, finding that the average college student More...
Packt Releases Bite-Sized Developer Education Platform Mapt
(Photo: Public Domain, Creative Commons) Learning really doesn’t ever stop, which is the purpose of Mapt, a brand new online learning platform for IT professionals. Mapt, just released on July 20, provides developers More...
Washington Education Funding Returns to Court in September
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) The state of Washington has been ordered to return to court on September 7th by the state Supreme Court in order to outline the progress it has made and give further explanation More...
Tens of Thousands of Educators Suspended After Turkey Coup
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) More than 15,000 education professionals in Turkey have been suspended after a failed coup targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a result of a broad, massive purge of More...
Law Firm Report Says Portland Schools Lax on Lead Levels
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) The legal firm Stoll Berne has released a report to the Portland Public Schools Board of Education with their findings of an investigation concerning lead levels in the drinking More...