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A new guide offers parents a roadmap in their quest to find the right online-learning program for their child. “A Parent’s Guide to Choosing the Right Online Program,”…
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To help local education leaders with their own school-reform efforts, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has produced a new series of online videos highlighting successful school…
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An “unintended consequence” of the No Child Left Behind initiative has been a decrease in civics knowledge, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said May 26…
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Sifting through archives of open online course material soon could become easier: A new public beta version of a web-based college course library aims to help students and…
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It’s no surprise, really, but it turns out Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates is a strong supporter of the open-courseware movement that has swept through education in the last…
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A new survey of science teachers and parents, from Boehringer Ingelheim and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), shows that an overwhelming majority of science teachers wish their…
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Even as audio versions of best sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are…
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The National Academy of Sciences has launched a new web site that encourages a closer look at the nation’s energy use, based on data from the National Academy…
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Advertising to American kids is nothing new—but now the internet and social media have taken kids’ exposure to advertising to new levels: Ads are virtually everywhere. That’s why…
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Bob Ballard, the explorer best known for the discovery of the Titanic and other wrecks, has not only made deep-sea exploration more accessible for K-12 and college…
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