"It's about being shameless and relentless and hustling for the first users and for the first partners," says Best. "That takes both sort of an energy and a humility."READ»
One of the largest educational publishers in the world is offering cash prizes to the winners of a crowdsourced learning product innovation competition.READ»
Forget lying in a memoir, we should be talking about what it means that Mortenson's Central Asia Institutes in Pakistan and Afghanistan are failing.READ»
The iPad may soon be lightening the load of middle-school students in Georgia. Could such a move further complicate the state's stance on teaching evolution?READ»
"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach ...READ»
Rowe's journey took him from the Gates Foundation to MTV and The White House USA Freedom Corps before he became the CEO of Public Prep, a network of non-profit single-sex charter schools.READ»
If you want to know where Professor Stephen Heppell is, don’t call his house or email his assistant -- check his Facebook page. Stephen has been known to fly around the world in ridiculously short amounts of time, stopping off ...READ»
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is deliriously rich--richer than the Apple CEO, even--and contrary to what a certain movie might tell you, is charitable enough to donate $100 million to Newark schools.READ»
The four disciplines, known as STEM, have been deemed crucial to American competitiveness. How can we design our schools so students want to learn about them?READ»
Scientists have discovered that real schools of real fish can be steered along by artificial robot fish. Weird. But the news has big implications for green power production. NYU-Poly's Dynamical Systems Laboratory, using the ...READ»
The source of the attacks on Google and other American corporations has been traced to two schools in China, both of which are heavily implied to be covers for the Chinese government and Baidu, the dominant search engine in China ...READ»
Eighteen months after we profiled Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee ("The Iron Chancellor," September 2008), she still hasn't won union approval of a new contract. After the October layoffs of 266 teachers and staff, ...READ»
Yesterday I wrote about the Kindle's tepid reception on the Princeton campus, and suggested that the device might not be ready for educational use. But pilot programs at other schools, involving both Kindles and iPhones, have ...READ»
Northern Power Systems unveiled a community wind power package for schools earlier this week at WINDPOWER 2009 featuring a turbine meant for school use and an accompanying educational package.
As part of the package, schools ...READ»
Brazil's government is about to create the world's largest desktop virtualization project, in schools across the entire country. And it's not just a move to advance educational computing for the country's kids while saving cash--it's ...READ»
