Addressing the under-representation of women as technical practitioners, Interop ITX speaker Patricia Dugan outlines some of the issues that the IT and tech sec
Lights, camera, research! Learn more about NYFA’s very own science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics learning program called STEAM.
Growing up completely immersed in the world of performing arts, Simone had no idea how one physics class would change the course of her life. During her junior year in high school Simone really…
The author a new book, “When Grit Isn't Enough,” writes: “We can't 'no excuse' our way out of the way we have ravaged our education budgets or our cities and the way education has become synonymous with test scores.”
GoPro Partners with NYU Tisch School of the Arts and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
I get frustrated when I hear or read disparaging remarks about public schools, as if teachers and principals weren’t working really hard, as if nothing had changed in public education and schools weren’t attentive to society’s evolving demands.
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The Socorro Independent School District was recently awarded the Texas Thespians Premier Communities for Theatre Education Award, leading the way in fine arts education in the El Paso region, the district announced in a news release Friday, Jan. 19. Socorro ISD was one of 14 school districts in Texas to […]
Founded 18 years ago as festival of five short plays, the Paprika Festival has grown into an organization supporting young and emerging artists year-round, culminating this year in a weeklong fest in Regent Park.
Pizarro: San Jose’s Institute of Contemporary Art honoring artist Susan O’Malley
Pizarro: San Jose’s Institute of Contemporary Art honoring artist Susan O’Malley
All around town, the industry is doing its part to help L.A. kids. But the ailing school system is still in crisis.
Ryan Gabriel is just 14 years old, but he's already enthralled by physics. Sarah Strackany, also 14, loves ballet and jazz and plans to make dance her career. At most high schools, the two incoming freshmen might pursue their passions on the side. But Gabriel, of Bartlett, and Strackany, of Elgin, have enrolled in Elgin District 46's new academy program to study what they love.
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Nolan Bushnell says his new company, BrainRush, will change education as we know it
Over the past decade, educators have emphasized the need to promote and advance STEM education in the U.S. STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, is seen as critical for students to learn at an early age – and America has fallen woefully behind other countries in providing this curriculum to children. One school is looking to change that.
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Applicants can now add digital credentials to their college and scholarship applications
By Stacy Jannis Exciting things are happening in 21st century classrooms all over our country. Teachers and students are using cutting-edge technology, working in teams, and connecting and sharing projects with classrooms all over the world. Innovative groups like the Concord Consortium , Promethean World , Project Lead the Way and Epals are at the…
Bulletin Board: A Post From the Community | It¿s hard to believe summer is already winding down, but as the back-to-school ads flood the airwaves, parents and children have begun gearing up for the school year ahead. While we may remember the dread we felt as kids saying goodbye to summer, this presents a wealth of opportunity for businesses to get involved and help students in all grades learn the ins and outs of running a business. Our educators are always looking for new ways to connect stud
In the Bioinformatics “OmicsLogic” program, participants will experience hands-on, project-based learning that combines scientific inquiry, critical thinking and problem solving while participating…
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Instagram, Pinterest, Blogger… There are so many platforms for browsing classroom designs and setups. But have you ever thought about the why behind each layout choice? Why is flexible seating…
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Project-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems.Project-Based Learning, Edutopia, March 14, 2016.
You have just finished learning a unit on early European explorers. The teacher tells you to create a diorama and hands you a checklist of requirements you must fulfill. How do you demonstrate your…
Originally published in the May issue of Policy Magazine, Future Design School founder Sarah Prevette addresses the rapidly changing world of work and the urgent need for our education system to…
Problem-based learning and project-based learning are often confused because they are both referred to as PBL. However, they are two separate learning styles. Project-based learning is a teaching…
Look over on the other side of the room, and we see a little girl doing watercoloring. In awe, the greens, blues, and pinks are fusing together as she plunges her brush in the water cup and paints…
Zaner-Bloser and Thoughtful Learning Partner to Bring 21st Century Skills to the Classroom
We don’t need to memorize things any more, but we still need teachers to guide our students toward learning the best ways to problem solve. The question is: How do you measure that? <meta property=
Look over on the other side of the room, and we see a little girl doing watercoloring. In awe, the greens, blues, and pinks are fusing together as she plunges her brush in the water cup and paints…
Debate, drama and other extracurriculars provide the excitement many classrooms lack. And they can help overhaul the system.
Intel corporation is well known for their forays into educational development and assisting with the ongoing battle between educators, the educated and dwindling school budgets around the world. With their latest campaign, the Intel Teach Program is focused on integrating technology into traditional classroom learning. Intel is not doing this through backing up large trucks…
I spend a lot of time writing about how digital learning can transform our education system into a student-centric one. In my last blog, I wrote about why parents—of all stripes—matter for digital learning and make it fundamentally different from past “reform” movements. Digital learning should similarly [...]
It’s the best time in history to learn anything! There are more resources and more supports than ever before. Of course, learning can be complicated. This week, Andrew explains the core principles of…
To prepare for the world and the workforce, students need to learn more about themselves and what motivates them. They also need opportunities, both in and out of school, to apply what they are learning to real-world contexts. Not just the kinds of problems they’ll be tackling in their future careers, but also the ways in which they will address them as part of a team of highly skilled knowledge workers.
Chances are, you’ve already heard the phrase “project-based learning.” Whether you have or haven’t, we will paraphrase: project-based learning is a teaching practice that encourages students to…
Once upon a time there was a school. An institution designed to provide space for learning under the direction of a teacher. This formalized system requires compulsory attendance, where students…
When J.K. Rowling released each of her Harry Potter books, young fans flocked to bookstores, stayed up late finishing the books, and then eagerly shared feelings and predictions about future books, characters, etc. with friends. These fans learned everything they could about J.K. Rowling’s fictional world on their own without prompting and in addition to \[…\]
I firmly believe in PBL. Given that you are reading this article, I assume you might share this belief too. I have tons of anecdotal and personal validation to the effectiveness of PBL from my own…
Education experts weigh in on the content areas children should have mastery over by the time they graduate.
Create academic tasks that resemble creative challenges.
Photo credit: Oferico I recall sitting bored in my grade school science class decades ago, and wondering... Instead of giving us so many lectures, wouldn't it be better to teach us how to build something cool instead? I felt that, by making real objects, we could learn in ways that were more memorable, interesting, and [...]
As compared to the conventional learning models, PBL is more collaborative, exploratory, flexible and application-driven
Kim Rakow Bernier is the Co-Chair of the K-12 and Teacher Education Sector of the U.S. Partnership for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org)…
NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Portfolio School, a project-based learning school in Tribeca, will build out a new location at 90 Hudson Street for the...
Mike Gallagher, President and CEO, Entertainment Software Association, on how games and STEM will boost America's tech sector overall
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Arizona School for the Arts reinvented itself for the virtual classroom after COVID-19 took the live performing out of performing arts education.
University of Iowa faculty and students continue to protest against the administration’s reluctance to transition to 100 percent online learning, despite an additional 220 students who tested positive for COVID-19 in one day.
University of Iowa faculty and students continue to protest against the administration’s reluctance to transition to 100 percent online learning, despite an additional 220 students who tested positive for COVID-19 in one day.
College students are not the only ones who try to suppress speech they find offensive.
ISLAMABAD: Parents of the students taking online classes due to the closure of educational institutions amid the...
The harassment builds during Israeli Apartheid Week.
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday had blistering criticism of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for indulging Donald Trump's delusions of election fraud by conducting an Arizona-style audit."We're learning again today just how low Republicans will go to satiate the twice-impeached, disgraced ex-president...
Students who have fallen out of the education system due to the pandemic risk forming an underclass with diminished prospects, and the Ontario governm...
Bettenhausen Auto and other businesses team with The Bridge Teen Center in Orland Park for more than 100 free student programs this semester.
Police said school administrators received a tip that an 18-year-old student may have a gun, which police later found in his backpack. Nobody was hurt.
Officials acknowledged a catastrophic failure by police to not immediately enter the classroom as a gunman massacred 19 students and two teachers.
A jury convicted a 22-year-old man of first-degree murder Monday in the shooting deaths of two graduate students who were killed while sitting in a parked car near USC.
The Covid-19 outbreak has generated fresh wave of finger-pointing on social media. But does public shaming help change behaviour?
The intense college admissions process can corrode some parents’ sense of morality.
Coronavirus outbreaks at colleges reopening for fall classes underscore the difficulties of policing student behavior.
Maria Telumbre knows fire.
A new study shows that more young people are getting colorectal cancers each year. Here are the symptoms everyone should know.
A tiny fraction of schools in Englandabout three in every 500have whole-school policies that address foreign languages, English usage, and integrating students who speak English as an additional language (EAL), new research published in the British Educational Research Journal indicates.
Over 200 faculty at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina have presented a petition calling for a return to online instruction in the midst of spiraling case numbers.
The normalcy and socialization that advocates of in-person schooling yearn for cant be provided while an epidemic rages. Instead, anxiety and distress are more likely.
Lets start a 'Boston Teaches' program by having our secondary school graduates help and encourage our younger students, now and in the future.
The village of 98-square-foot-houses has inspired international curiosity and could become a template for similar projects. Activists, nonprofits and students from hundreds of cities — including Rochester, Duluth and St. Cloud — have inquired.
When I went to high school there was a debate over how much calculators should be used in the classroom. Today the debate is over whether smartphones and other mobile [...]
An agreement that Elisabeth Hayes made with Roberta King to take over her class Friday at the American Civic Association, where a gunman killed King and 12 others, now haunts Ms. Hayes.
A few months ago some kids in India filmed themselves performing sexual acts with a cameraphone. The video got out and, in response, the government has banned mobile phones from public schools -- which seems to be a complete over reaction to two...
The $205 million investment will help students with autism, sensory needs, and emotional disabilities.
The Bulldog Future Alumni Network (FAN) Club launched at Dog Days this summer. The FAN Club, developed by Amanda Hall, Program Coordinator for the Bulldog FAN Club, and Blair Smittcamp, former…
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Geometric signs on cave walls and ancient artifacts may be some of humanity’s earliest graphic communications.
Bezymianny in Kamchatka, one of the many volcanoes in eastern Russia that will no longer be monitored by KVERT. In some bad news for volcano watchers (and the general public, too), Russia has decided to stop funding KVERT (the Russian equivalent of the Alaska Volcano Observatory), the institute that monitors and researches volcanic eruptions on \[…\]
The plane was on a scheduled flight from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana in the Kamchatka Peninsula when it disappeared from the radar.
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Chief Jim Hopper finds himself imprisoned in Kamchatka Russia at the start of Stranger Things season 4. Here's what to know about the Soviet prison camp.
On the same day that state Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr. said that he won't seek reelection in 2016, two candidates lined up to replace him..
“Notations 21 Project,” at the Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills, showcases a collection of musical scores in unconventional ways.
People not vaccinated against the coronavirus are getting sick, filling hospital beds and putting pressure on hospitals and their staffs, doctors said at a Washington State Hospital Association news briefing.
Bulletin Board: A Post From the Community | SPRINGFIELD - This week, Governor Bruce Rauner signed legislation, House Bill 643, sponsored by State Representative Nick Sauer (R-Lake Barrington) to prevent a pay and per diem increase for state elected officials. "Illinois should be focused on reforming our government and advancing pro-growth policies that improve our economy, not giving elected officials a pay increase," said Sauer. "Our neighboring state of Wisconsin just announced
Local businesses, alone, received $2.2 billion of sales revenue from providing services to the port's ocean cargo and cruise activity, shipyard activity and mixed-use real estate activity.
India Used Car Market Outlook to 2020 - Growing Preference and Emergence of Web Aggregators
Strauss-Kahn faces trial on pimping charges related to hotel prostitution parties
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In August, just days before her daughter was to start her sophomore year of college, Dr. Lucy Sauer faced a troubling choice: Should her daughter have a device surgically implanted in her chest to control her heart rhythm?
Outcast is on its way home from time’s exile, and it’s doing it without the fetters of a traditional publishing contract. We speak to one…
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Carol Vorderman shares tips on fighting against climate change as it's revealed that 7 in 10 Brits were unaware of the country's recent coal free record.
The number of unaccompanied minors up more than 100% over last year.
Heliskiing. Cold water scuba diving. Fishing. La Datcha's captain Alistair Reid reveals the adventure of chartering the SeaXplorer 77 expedition yacht in the remote region of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia
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Civil contractor and mining services company SRG Limited says it is well positioned for further growth on the back of recent contract wins, after booking a 52 per cent lift in net profit in the 201
But an experimental computer-based program has helped Sauer regain some sight and given her hope of further recovery.
Countdown host Carol Vorderman reveals she is learning how to fly to get her pilot's license, exclusively in HELLO!
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Russian rescue workers say a freezer trawler with an international crew of 132 has sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk off of the Kamchatka Peninsula and at least 43 crew members died.
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