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2/26/2012

The release of a trove of data evaluating New York City teachers on their ability to boost student test scores represents a potentially powerful new tool for parents to assess their children's public schools.

2/26/2012

A Washington state prosecutor says his office will seek probation and treatment for a 9-year-old boy who took to school a gun that accidentally discharged and critically injured a classmate this past week.

2/26/2012

The Obama administration is trying to foster more public-private partnerships to help low-performing schools.

2/25/2012

Sixteen Partnership schools in Los Angeles to benefit from Revolution K12’s academic improvement programs through organization’s largest collaboration.

2/25/2012

Sublime Learning, Inc announces its partnership with the Visual Leap to offer Philadelphia Schools “SublimeDesign”, a blended Professional Learning approach to Universal Design for Learning and technology integration.

2/25/2012

Felicia Cumings Smith, Associate Commissioner of Education, Kentucky Department of Education, will speak on the dramatic changes in K12 education at the 2012 School Improvement Innovation Summit July 16-17. 

2/23/2012

A timeline is in place to consider plans to improve 77 Oklahoma schools that the State Department of Education has identified as underperforming in student achievement and graduation rates.

2/23/2012

Virginia education officials on Thursday morning finalized the state's waiver request for flexibility from some requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

2/23/2012

Time To Know's updated platform, DTP 6.1, now supports Windows Internet Explorer 9, Apple Safari 5.1, Apple Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 operating systems, and all related models.

2/23/2012

Empowering Writers announced the upcoming release of its newest resources, The Essential Guides to Writing for grades 2, 3, 4, and 5.

2/23/2012

School districts, local governments, and non-profit agencies in New Jersey can now use cooperative purchasing contracts awarded by national programs such as the PEPPM Technology Bidding and Purchasing Program and the Keystone Purchasing Network.

2/23/2012

Numonics Corporation announced CleverTouch, its newest optical interactive touchscreen overlay designed for easy installation over commercial flat panel displays creating an interactive environment with a connected computer.

2/23/2012

"To advertise or not to advertise," that is the question — at least in the minds of many school districts feeling the pinch of Pennsylvania's cuts to education spending.

2/23/2012

More than 170 high schools across Idaho have signed up to participate in the first one-third of schools receiving laptops in the state’s "one-to-one" initiative in 2013.

2/23/2012

Students at Catholic high schools in Brockton and Braintree, and others in grades 7 through 12 in Kingston, will start the next school year with iPads instead of papers and books in their backpacks, part of a growing number of schools looking to trade traditional learning tools for the latest technology.

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