FCC Adds Broadband to 'Lifeline' Program in Party-Line Vote - Digital Education - Education Week

Low-income families will now be allowed to use a $9.25/month subsidy to cover home broadband access.

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Spotlight on Digital Curriculum - Education Week

Schools across the country are using education technology to meet curriculum needs in the digital age. In this Spotlight, learn about the role of digital curriculum in personalizing student learning and how educators are selecting and deploying digital content in the classroom.

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Apple donates iPads for students in southwest Idaho schools - Education Week

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The Every Student Succeeds Act: An ESSA Overview - Education Week

The new Every Student Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools. And it gives new leeway to states in calling the shots.

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Rauner frustrated at lack of progress to end budget impasse - Education Week

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The Every Student Succeeds Act: An ESSA Overview - Education Week

The new Every Student Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools. And it gives new leeway to states in calling the shots.

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The Quantified Baby: Ready or Not, Here The Products Come - Digital Education - Education Week

New wearable technology for infants aims to help parents close the "word gap," but some early childhood experts are skeptical.

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After Four Years, Progress Reported by 'Reconnecting McDowell' - Rural Education - Education Week

Academic and health offerings have increased in McDowell County, W.Va., due to a private-public partnership.

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Group Probes Ed-Tech Pricing, Buying - Education Week

A new nonprofit organization has set out to help school districts compare the prices they pay for education technology and examine the fairness and logic of their procurement practices and contracts with vendors.

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House Hearing Weighs Student-Data Privacy Concerns - Education Week

Parents, researchers, and educators all have distinct points of view about the proper collection and use of sensitive student data.

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Can 'Micro-Credentialing' Salvage Teacher PD? - Education Week

Advocates say the movement offers an opportunity for schools to shift away from arbitrary credit-hour requirements toward a system based on evidence of progress in specific instructional skills.

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What Defines a Good School? - Education Week

To create school environments that reflect our humanity, the words we use matter, writes Superintendent David Gamberg.

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New Toolkit to Help Schools, Vendors Test Ed Tech for Privacy, Security - Digital Education - Education Week

Common Sense Media has released an "information security primer" to help schools and ed-tech vendors test the privacy and security of new products.

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Students Vie for Office in Sandra Day O'Connor Video Game - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

iCivics releases video game that lets students run virtual presidential campaigns.

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Poll: Parents Take Dim View of Careers in STEM Teaching - Education Week

A poll from the nonprofit group ASQ (formerly the American Society for Quality) finds that while 90 percent of parents would encourage their children to pursue a career in a STEM field, 87 percent said they would be "concerned" if that career happened to be as a K-12 teacher.

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Science Learning - Education Week

Focusing the responsibility for learning on students can be more effective than traditional lectures in improving student achievement in STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math—courses, especially for underrepresented minority students, says a study of college students published in the journal PLOS Biology.

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Meaningful College and Career Readiness Indicators: The Need for Both in School Accountability Systems - Learning Deeply - Education Week

Measures such as grades, coursework, and authentic performances can provide a better picture of students' opportunities for deeper learning, according to Soung Bae of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE).

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Chat: Rolling Out a 1-to-1 Program: Rochester City's Path - Education Week

The chief technology officer and the curriculum chief in the Rochester, N.Y., school district discuss how they are tapping the expertise of their curriculum, teaching, and technology staffs to plan a three-year rollout of a 1-to-1 digital initiative.

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Investments in K-12 Facilities Fall Woefully Short, Report Finds - Education Week

As buildings age and enrollment grows, America is underfunding public school facilities to the tune of $46 billion annually, a new report estimates.

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Discover Your Innovative Teachers, Acknowledge Them and Learn From Them - Leadership 360 - Education Week

Leaders, while striving to find their own vision for possibilities, need only to look inside their schools for innovative teachers who are pushing against boundaries and inviting a more flexible interaction between student and teacher.

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Better Uses for Federal Aid to Low-Income Students Studied in New Report - Politics K-12 - Education Week

A new report explores how explores how states and the U.S. Department of Education can support new, local, and more effective approaches to Title I spending.

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Teacher Database Critical for Calif. Recruitment, Retention Efforts, Analysts Say - Teacher Beat - Education Week

A teacher database is key to combating the state's looming teacher shortage, California Legislative Analyst's Office says.

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K-12 Reading in the Digital Age: Books or Nooks? - BookMarks - Education Week

How does the use of print vs. e-readers affect students? In a Q&A, technology and communication expert Naomi Baron says the book medium we choose matters.

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Iowa Academic Chief Plays Dual Role - Education Week

When the district’s chief technology and chief academic officers are one person, bureaucratic delays aren’t an issue.

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Academic, Tech Staff Team for Rochester's 1-to-1 Rollout - Education Week

Years of planning have gone into the upstate New York district’s evolving efforts to put computers into the hands of nearly every student.

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$680 Million Project Spurs Collaboration in Ore. District - Education Week

When voters approved a huge technology project in Beaverton schools, it was clear that a shift was needed in the district's tech and instruction departments.

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CAOs and CTOs Ramp Up on Collaboration - Education Week

Through personalized learning, 1-to-1 laptop programs, or learning-management systems, school districts are bridging the gap between academics and technology.

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Tech 'Convert' Helps Head Network's Personalized Learning Push - Education Week

Despite his low tech background, Summit Public Schools' CAO is central to the charter network's move toward customized student learning.

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Ga. District Puts Data Analytics to Work - Education Week

A long-running collaboration in Gwinnett County schools is pushing to make the most out of predictive analytics.

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New School Roles for a New Era: A Special Report - Education Week

Articles in this special report explore the evolving roles of chief academic officers and chief technology officers in five school systems in California, Georgia, Iowa, Oregon, and New York.

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Response: Differentiating Algebra Instruction - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Wendy Jennings, Yvelyne Germain-McCarthy, Billy Bender, Derek Cabrera, and Ed Thomas contribute their thoughts on differentiated algebra instruction.

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How One School District Uses Virtual Field Trips to Save Lots of Time, Money - Time and Learning - Education Week

An administrator with Durham Public Schools plans more than 100 virtual field trips each year that take her district's elementary school students to places they could never afford to go to otherwise.

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LightSail Partners With Washington Post With Focus on Literacy - Digital Education - Education Week

The ed tech company says it significantly enlarged its digital library in the deal with the prominent national newspaper.

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How Did Science Teachers Address Ebola? And How Will They Respond to Zika? - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

A new study looks at how K-12 educators responded to the Ebola outbreak, and finds that most science teachers devoted some class time to the topic.

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Falling Stars: What We Can Learn From i3 Grant Recipients Who Struggled - Politics K-12 - Education Week

As schools in Forsyth, Ga., and Corona-Norco, Calif., discovered, educators can learn a lot even from programs that don't become superstars under Investing in Innovation.

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International Test Results for Young Adults Suggest Opportunity Gaps - Learning Deeply - Education Week

A test of literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills shows college-bound and white young adults perform far better than high school graduates and young adults of color.

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xkcd Author Randall Munroe Brings Comics to High School Science Textbooks - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

Randall Munroe, the creator of the popular Internet comic xkcd, will soon have his work featured in high school science textbooks.

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Hillary Clinton Wants Money to Refurbish Schools; What Are the Odds of Getting It? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to resurrect a program from the 1990s that provided federal funds to refurbish and repair crumbling schools.

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Response: Ed Tech 'has Over-Promised & Under-Delivered' - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Jon Bergmann, Aaron Sams, Jake Goran, Steven Anderson, Derek Cabrera, and Rebecca Blink contribute their commentaries on the trials and tribulations of using ed tech.

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State launches 1st youth apprenticeship pilot program - Education Week

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Should Teachers Join Twitter? - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

The social network has existed for over a decade, and many educators find it useful. But resistance remains.

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Social-Emotional Learning Would Benefit From Tech Innovations, Report Says - Education Week

Educational technology can help students develop important social and emotional skills and character traits, concludes a report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group.

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Education Data, Student Privacy Take Spotlight at Capitol Hill Hearing - Politics K-12 - Education Week

The House education committee weighs the issue at a time when some lawmakers are pushing to update the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA.

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Federal i3: Giving Wing to Promising Ideas - Education Week

As the first grants issued under the federal Investing in Innovation, or i3, program wind down, Education Week examines the yield from the politically popular program.

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i3 Grants: Findings From the First Round - Education Week

See a selection of some of the largest grants among the 2010 i3 grantees and what their evaluations have found so far.

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Investing in Innovation: An Introduction to i3 - Education Week

Here's what you need to know about the Education Department's main "innovation pipeline" for promsing programs.

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ESSA May Offer Megaphone for Parent, Community Voices - Education Week

Advocates for parent and community engagement see a chance to expand on their impact under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

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Overreliance on Computers Robs Classrooms of Personal Interactions - Education Week

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WVU changes general education requirements - Education Week

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Cybersecurity Camps Offered To Virginia High Schoolers - Education Week

Virginia high school students will get the chance to learn about the cybersecurity industry during the summer.

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