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Stimulating and Sustaining Improvement How Longitudinal Data Systems Impact Federal Funding
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Time: 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT Duration: One hour (15 mins for Q&A) View Recorded Webinar Increasingly, districts achieving significant gains in student performance cite longitudinal…
DOE ARRA Implementation Briefing
On April 1, 2009, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that $44 billion for states and schools is now available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of…
Government video on Pandemic Flu
PandemicFlu.gov provides comprehensive government-wide information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local…
This Land: Ohio Serenade
The New York Times reports that in Newark, Ohio, a shifting economic landscape is affecting even the town's high school musicians.…
Invoking the Sputnik era, Obama vows record outlays for research
In an April 27 speech at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., President Obama presented a vision of a new era in research financing comparable to the Sputnik-period…
Steinbeck heirs seek to slow Google Books settlement
A group of authors and the heirs of others, including representatives of the estate of John Steinbeck, are asking a federal judge to delay by four months the deadline for…
Laptops help sick kids stay connected to school, friends
A third-grader at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., Ahmed Hamdi hasn't seen much of his class in the past few months. That's because he was diagnosed with…
Florida introduces web-based reading aid
The Florida Department of Education on April 27 unveiled a new reading assessment program intended to use web-based technology to quickly identify a student's strengths and weaknesses in reading, reports…
McAfee launches free online cyber-crime help center
Is your computer acting funny? Are you worried that you might have visited a malicious web site or opened an eMail attachment with malware? Now, you can now go to…
What you need to know about swine flu
A never-before-seen strain of swine flu has turned deadly in Mexico and is causing milder illness in the United States and elsewhere. While authorities say it's not time to panic,…