Common-Core Testing Clashes With Social-Media Monitoring - Education Week

A New Jersey high school student who posted a tweet about a question on a common-core test has unintentionally sparked a national controversy.



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Employers Are Integral to Career Tech Programs - Education Week

New CTE programs pose a new challenge for educators: how to form deeper, longer partnerships with businesses.



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Outside Groups Build Bridges Between School, Business - Education Week

Third-party entities are showing educators and businesses how to work together to shape new, more relevant career and technical education programs.



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Elite Private Schools Use Wide Range of Ed-Tech Strategies - Education Week

The approaches diverge from those taken by most of their public school counterparts, but experts suggest the tactics and strategies could be replicated.



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Online Testing - Education Week

Fewer than 30 percent of K-12 school technology leaders believe their district is ready for online assessments, according to an annual survey by the Consortium for School Networking.



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Robot Teaches Handwriting Via Student Role Reversal - Education Week

A robot from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne may be able to help students improve their cursive and boost their self-esteem—by letting them teach it how to write.



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Pearson, PARCC Knocked for Monitoring Students' Social Media - Education Week

An attempt to monitor students' social-media use to prevent the sharing of test information—initially flagged by a school superintendent in New Jersey—has generated a blast of criticism toward the PARCC assessment and at Pearson, the contractor hired to administer it.



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