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Charter schools will have a new place to turn for advice next year when members of the D.C. Public Charter School Board start a nonprofit organization that will research how the schools can best be run.
Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery’s ticket sales have passed the $100 million mark, lottery officials said Tuesday.
NEW YORK — Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages. Beginning Wednesday, the networking Web site is taking the rare step of requiring its more than 350 million users to review and update their privacy
The Van Buren School Board unanimously approved Tuesday a resolution authorizing the refinancing of a $24 million 2004 bond issue.
The Pocola School Board approved the lowest interest bid of four Tuesday for a general obligation bond issue to pay for court-mandated improvements to make the district’s schools compliant with Americans With Disabilities Act standards.
Broward school district officials will meet with representatives from the county and municipalities Wednesday to discuss changing the definition of school crowding. School Board members have asked the...
Fredericktown High School Senior Lauren Henderson recently accepted a scholarship to play volleyball at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. Following her senior season for the Lady Cats, Henderson was named First-Team All-Conference, First-Team All-District, and Second-Team All-Regional. She will be joining an Austin Peay Lady Governors squad which was 21-8 this past season and 14-3 ...
• Messages from social networks to gain prominence • Image search and translation technologies also unveiled Google has moved to head off some of the threat from young rivals such as Twitter and Facebook by announcing plans to prominently display results from social networking sites in its search pages. The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The state-appointed financial manager for Detroit's struggling public schools called on lawmakers to change state law to improve Michigan's chances to qualify for more federal stimulus money.
Facebook is launching its new privacy settings and plans to force its 350 million users to at least look at and potentially customize them. How many will folks will actually make good use of these tools in the long run?
FRANKFORT, KY - The Kentucky Lottery reports that students in western Kentucky last year received more than $41 million in college scholarships and grants paid for by Kentucky Lottery proceeds, according to newly-released figures from the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA).
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 - Though many Minnesota schools are closed or delayed today following last night's snow storm, most west-metro public school districts remain open today, including Hopkins.
The Pima School District is raising the technology bar once again with the unanimous approval from its School Board on Wednesday to purchase Hitachi StarBoards for its classrooms.
Eastern Arizona College will hold the line on tuition, rooms and other fees next year and will raise the price for board.
Thatcher High School received a $20,000 grant from Freeport-McMoRan, members of the Thatcher School Board learned Nov.12.
No, this isn’t sourced from Penthouse Letters. A New York City schools janitor caught two lusty language teachers, Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro, in a compromising situation on school grounds on November 20th. Students at the James Madison High School in the Midwood section of Brooklyn were watching a talent show in the auditorium when the [...]
It's down to the final three on Top Chef 's Season 6 showdown: two headstrong brothers, Mike and Bryan Voltaggio, and 27-year-old Kevin Gillespie (who has a Facebook page devoted to his bushy red beard). Top Chef 's Jen: "I was thrown" by Tom Colicchio's comment All three highly skilled cheftestants have a solid chance at taking the title of Top Chef, but only time will tell who will prevail in ...
A group of Asian students from South Philadelphia High School are planning to address the School Reform Commission following a series of assaults.
Following Sunday's news that the Iowa Hawkeyes will be traveling to Miami for the FedEx Orange Bowl on January 5, the Quad Cities River Bandits have announced that Modern Woodmen Park will host an Orange Bowl party to watch the game and raise funds for the Keith Lucier Memorial Scholarship.
The second day of a three-day filing period for school board seats open in Pottawatomie County school districts brought four more candidates in to the running Tuesday.
Yesenia Pacheco's third-grade class at Pima Elementary was my fourth classroom visit for the Class Act series, and I must say it was a great experience. Though I was bigger than my classmates, I felt like I fit right in.
Wow, just in case you actually thought there was a big consensus ...
Over at the National Journal education blog they’re debating ...
The lede of this piece might catch your eye but the entire thing ...
Seems like this Troops to Teachers story appears in a big paper ...
