Create and print worksheets, chore charts, and arts and crafts ideas. Kids earn points from doing chores, worksheets, and arts and crafts to use to adopt a pet cat and play dress up games.

Until this year I was just a TA for various programming classes, which basically meant all I had to do was show up. This year, though, they didn’t have anyone to teach Intro to Java. I’d been working on Ruby on Rails workshops for women, and I saw a chance to extend the work to kids.

The University of New England, with two Maine campuses in Biddeford and Portland, offers degree programs in osteopathic medicine, health sciences, ...

Had Alexis de Tocqueville, the great author of Democracy in America, ever found himself in a modern-day classroom, it’s safe to wager he would not have used PowerPoint. Tocqueville cautioned that America’s obsessive pragmatism would wed its often impoverished intellectual life to the demands of practical productivity. The cumbersome weight of majority opinion, he warned, would turn our educational institutions into mere adjuncts of popular culture. A fashionable new trend is at the intersection of these two pernicious currents: using PowerPoint presentations as a teaching tool for class instruction.

In 2006, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati launched its Entrepreneurs College seminar series. Presented by our firm’s attorneys, the seminars in each session address a wide range of topics designed to help entrepreneurs focus their ideas and business strategies, build relationships, and access capital. In response to attendee demand, there also are occasional additional sections that address issues of concern to particular industries.

The professionalization of the field is turning students off

Teachers hate her. Principals are scared of her. How Michelle Rhee became the most revolutionary — and polarizing — force in American education

NCWIT is the National Center for Women & Information Technology, a coalition of more than 100 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits working to increase women's participation in information technology (IT).

Great Education Colorado is a nonpartisan, statewide, grassroots organization of parents and other public school supporters that advocates for adequate funding for public education in Colorado. Through its web site, newsletters and network, Great Education Colorado informs public school supporters about critical school funding issues and empowers them to be vocal and effective advocates for our schools.

In an age of charter schools, home schools, No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, overstretched public schools, the battle for resources, voucher plans and evolving notions about special education and special needs, the act of teaching has never been more complicated. In Lesson Plans, a group of teachers chronicle their experiences during the first weeks of the school, offering first hand accounts of today's classroom challenges from diverse perspectives.

Many college officials are asking whether more should be done to encourage students to consider public service.

Reading to lead or learn requires that you treat your brain like the muscle that it is--lifting the subjects with the most tension and weight. For me, that mean pushing ahead into subjects you're not familiar with and wresting with them until you can...

The HotChalk Learning Environment does exactly that, using the convenience and versatility of an online community to complement the classroom experience for grades K-12.

"The next few years will do more to determine the course of your career than anything you did in art or design school, and in some ways demand even more attention than you're used to giving..."

The learn list is a super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.

The first-ever, instructional deck of cards designed by coaches for coaches. Shuffle through 52 color-coded drills that teach valuable fundamentals, while leaving in the "fun."

As the costs for fixing the state’s troubled corrections system rocket higher, California is headed for a dubious milestone — for the first time the state will spend more on incarcerating inmates than on educating students in its public universities.

"Curriki is... a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. [And,] Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible."

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 125,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is a member of the Corwin Press Speaker’s Bureau and the author of the following th

"We believe that, with the right structure, the linking of classrooms and students to the global Net can become indispensable to a variety of teaching environments — and we have tested this belief through a series of pilot projects implemented at Harvard Law School and elsewhere. These projects seek to answer the surprisingly difficult questions of what to do with a classroom once it is wired and how to help teachers, unobtrusively but effectively, inspire and lead their students through the use of networked technologies, fostering online intellectual communities with innovative tools that fundamentally differ from existing educational systems."

"I just read on the New York Times website "A Teacher on the Front Lines as Faith and Science Clash" by Amy Harmon and am just blown away by the story, and by the dedication, talent, and patience shown by David Campbell, the high school biology teacher featured in the article."