Daily News

5/9/2012

YourTeacher announced the release of their first math iBook for schools: Algebra 1. Available exclusively at Apple’s iBookstore, YourTeacher’s patent-pending math iBook is the world’s first ‘Textbook with a Teacher Inside'.

5/9/2012

Bully Buster USA has partnered with Iconosys, Inc. to launch Word Bully 3.0, the ultimate app and means of self-defense in the battle against bullying and cyber-bullying.

5/9/2012

NBC Learn and Carnegie Learning, Inc. announced they are teaming up to produce “Decision 2012: Election Math” – a collection of free online math education resources related to the 2012 election season, developed especially for middle and high school teachers and students.

5/9/2012

The first new elementary school in New Mexico's Bernalillo Public Schools district in 30 years features storefront, curtainwall and sunshades from Tubelite, Inc. 

5/9/2012

Staff Development for Educators is partnering with Dr. Yeap Ban Har, one of the world’s foremost experts in Singapore Math, to conduct advanced two-day institutes on August 2–3 in Houston, Texas and August 6-7 in Oak Lawn, Illinois. 

5/9/2012

SMART Notebook 11 collaborative learning software, SMART Response assessment software 2012 and the Mac edition of 3D Tools for SMART Notebook software are now available for customer download.

5/9/2012

Digital curriculum content solution named as Finalist for SIIA 2012 CODiE Awards, AEP Distinguished Achievement Awards and EdTech Digest New Product and Leadership Awards.

5/9/2012

The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) is introducing its Umbrella License for K12 schools and districts to supplement any existing license to show movies.

5/9/2012

The Nature Conservancy and Discovery Education launched Nature Works Everywhere, a partnership designed to help students learn the science behind how nature helps our everyday existence and the importance of environmental conservation.

5/9/2012

Illinois-based ETA/Cuisenaire, the leader in hands-on solutions for mathematics, literacy, and science education, announced that it is changing its company name to ETA hand2mind.

5/8/2012

The sixth graders at Stephen A. Halsey Junior High School 157 in Queens have a tough assignment before them: design a new playground that will transform a sea of black asphalt at their school into a recreational oasis — and, while they are at it, help clean up New York City’s waterways.

5/8/2012

A school district has deemed an awkward teen's two-page encounter at boarding school in the coming-of-age novel "Looking for Alaska" too racy, banning the book from class reading lists.

5/8/2012

The first time Jon Brumley was asked to serve on what became known as the Perot Committee, charged with overhauling Texas education in 1983, the Fort Worth oilman had to say no.

5/8/2012

"Wanna see my book report?" asks first-grader Johnathan Ponce, pointing up at a colorful wall covered in student work. Michael Kooi of the Florida Department of Education turned around obligingly to look at Johnathan's hand-drawn cover.

5/8/2012

Lake Forest (Del.) School District is kicking the obesity epidemic. Schools should, they believe, be a cornerstone of the nation's obesity battle.

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