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Blackboard launches New Learning Experience platform

April 13, 2016April 8, 2016 by Laura Ascione

Blackboard has launched the K-12 New Learning Experience Platform for districts and schools. The platform brings together institutions, parents, teachers, and learners in an integrated approach that addresses…

News

Follett acquires ClassBook

March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 by Laura Ascione

Follett announced it has acquired ClassBook, a K-12 education online bookstore that serve schools, teachers, parents, and students. ClassBook provides private and parochial schools with 24/7 bookstores, streamlining…

IT Management

Edsby making cloud service available on Microsoft Azure

February 2, 2016 by Laura Ascione

Edsby, a cloud-based learning management system for K-12 school districts that connects teachers, parents and students using modern technologies, will soon be available on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's hyperscale,…

Curriculum

Proposed project-based school would rethink traditional learning

February 1, 2016February 1, 2016 by Elisa Crouch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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District Management

N.J. experiments with new engagement platform

January 27, 2016January 26, 2016 by Laura Ascione

Evolution Labs and The New Jersey Association of School Administrators (NJASA), the state’s professional association of school leaders, have partnered to further develop and make available to NJASA…

District Management

6 apps to help parents and teachers communicate

March 4, 2016January 22, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Communication between teachers and parents makes it easier for educators to understand the outside challenges students may deal with, and it helps parents understand how they can better…

Innovation Insights

What do we really mean by risk taking in the classroom?

January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 by Trevor Shaw

It's important for students to learn risk taking skills. But how do schools do that without taking some big risks themselves?

Apps

6 STEAM tinkering tools for the holidays

December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 by Thomas C. Murray and Samantha A. Edwards

Engage kids of all ages with these STEM and coding learning toys The year that was brought with it ... Read more

STEM & STEAM

Research: Digital media could aid early math skills

January 21, 2016November 23, 2015 by Laura Ascione

Children who used media content from PBS KIDS' series PEG + CAT showed improvement in critical math areas involving ordinal numbers, spatial relationships, and 3-D shapes, according to…

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A helpline for schools tackling cyberbullying

May 16, 2019August 24, 2015 by By Bridget McCrea

First-of-its-kind pilot gives schools a new tool for combating cyberbullying on social media -- a helpline with close ties to Facebook and Twitter.

District Management

Educating parents of the Siri generation

December 15, 2015June 11, 2015 by By Carl Hooker

In our digital world, some parents may feel lost at sea. Here's what they need to know to keep up with their kids online lives, and what schools…

IT Management

The defiant parents: Testing’s discontents

January 23, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports

Anna Allanbrook, the principal of the Brooklyn New School, a public elementary school in Carroll Gardens, has long considered the period of standardized testing that arrives every spring…

Teaching Trends

7 crippling parenting behaviors that keep children from growing into leaders

January 21, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports

While I spend my professional time now as a career success coach, writer, and leadership trainer, I was a marriage and family therapist in my past, and worked…

IT Management

Parents say they don’t need state test results

December 11, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Last month, I asked whether parents and grandparents were worried about threats to annual testing caused by the national switch to the Common Core standards, the Washington Post…

District Management

Charges dropped against Maryland parent who spoke against Common Core standards

September 24, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

The Howard County father whose arrest became a viral web video and a cause celebre of conservative talk radio won't be prosecuted for disrupting a meeting on state…

Teaching Trends

The effect of parental involvement on academic achievement

September 24, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

The influence of parental involvement on a student’s academic success should not be underestimated, TeachThought reports.

District Management

Opinion: How schools (even great ones) fail kids with ADHD

December 12, 2016September 24, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

here’s a group of students struggling through school rd to navigate that gets little attention in the media or in the debate about how to fix schools: Children…

District Management

In reality and film, a battle for schools

June 11, 2021February 22, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

On Tuesday officials in Adelanto, a California desert town, are set to consider whether parents there can be the first to take over a failing public school under…

Teaching & Learning

SchoolMAX cited in back-to-school nightmare

May 2, 2024August 31, 2009 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

It's every district's nightmare: thousands of students arrive on the first day of school with no schedule and nowhere to go ... and parents, teachers, and the media…

Follett acquires ClassBook

Proposed project-based school would rethink traditional learning

N.J. experiments with new engagement platform

6 apps to help parents and teachers communicate

6 STEAM tinkering tools for the holidays

Research: Digital media could aid early math skills

The defiant parents: Testing’s discontents

7 crippling parenting behaviors that keep children from growing into leaders

Parents say they don’t need state test results

Charges dropped against Maryland parent who spoke against Common Core standards

The effect of parental involvement on academic achievement

Opinion: How schools (even great ones) fail kids with ADHD

In reality and film, a battle for schools

SchoolMAX cited in back-to-school nightmare

The 36th Annual National Service-Learning Conference® Returns to Saint Paul, MN

Tutor Doctor Becomes First Global Tutoring Franchise to Partner with MindPrint Learning

SchoolStatus Named to 2025 GSV 150 List of Most Transformational Growth Companies in Digital Learning

Frontline Education Announces Hope Needham as Chief People & Culture Officer

Texas State Board of Education Names Just Right Reader’s English and Spanish Literacy Resources as Approved Instructional Materials

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