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State English exams for schoolkids include product placement
Products in kid exams At least a half-dozen companies got an unexpected boost in marketing their brands to New York’s children this week — with free product placement on the… Read more
Need to bridge technological gap between teachers, students: Expert
DOHA WITH the initiatives of Qatar to offer world-class research and education system, the onus is now on faculty members to facilitate further integration of technology into the classrooms, says… Read more
Schools Help Minorities Become the Serfs of the Information Age
Julia Steiny – “Education will only prepare people for life in a democracy when education itself is also democratic.” – John Dewey, in 1916, Democracy and Education. “I think minorities… Read more
U.S. Still Has More Work to Do in Technology Education
by Autumn Arnett and T.A. Copper A new survey from Dell suggests that when meeting students’ technology needs, the U.S. can take a few notes from China. According to the… Read more
Reading, Writing and Video Games
“It’s easy to foresee a future in which teachers try to unpeel children from their screens in order to bring them back to such hands-on, “real world” experiences. To renew… Read more
Bring Back Tom Vander Ark
Jay P. Greene – Under Tom Vander Ark‘s leadership the Gates Foundation pursued an education reform strategy focused on creating smaller high schools. The theory was that smaller high schools… Read more
Teaching to a Tech-Savvy Generation
Julia Steiny – Social-studies teacher Dawn Casey-Rowe has a power-plant’s energy packed into a petite frame. Her students at Davies vocational school come for the hands-on learning of marketable skills…. Read more
Poor IT skills hurt youth job chances
A lack of computer skills could be damaging the career chances of young people, a charity has warned. More than one in 10 young people do not think their computer… Read more
University’s ‘Tunnel of Oppression’ Exhibit Includes Bill O’Reilly
by Aslinn Scott – A recent “Tunnel of Oppression” student exhibit at CU Boulder that aimed to highlight insulting and derogatory words and images included among its offerings a picture… Read more
Does your child need a digital detox?
Addiction to computers can affect youngsters both physically and mentally. But one doctor helps screen addicts as young as four to break the habit Not so long ago, my daughter… Read more »