While national board certification may not be enough to warrant a bonus check for Georgia teachers, earning certification from the state may be. More than 2,500 national board certified teachers now receive a 10% salary bonus from the state. But...
Does it mean anything that President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited a public charter school in the District this week? Washington, DC, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton thinks so. "I think that it is significant that after first lady...
Noah Walker’s talent for being a good speller likely started when he learned to read at age four. Walker, a Windsor Middle School eighth-grader, explained that he was “bored” about not being able to read when he was young. So,...
The United Way of Allen County, Indiana, is looking for a few good men. Make that 35 male volunteers to read to local third-graders through a new program called Real Men Read. Organizers hope to assign one man to each...
A book recommended by former First Lady Laura Bush was today officially banned in schools in Stanislaus County, California. Bless Me, Ultima, a novel on former First Lady Laura Bush's Top 10 Reading List for All Ages, was officially banned...
You know that saying about how one can't be too thin or too rich? Amazon would agree. The e-commerce giant is predicted to rake in $1.2 billion in 2010 from sales related to its Kindle e-reader, according to a new...
Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator by Shelley Tanaka, illustrated by David Craig, has been given the 2009 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, five...
Iowa schools are sending children home more often so teachers can use class time to sharpen their own skills. Why? Because professional development has gained a foothold in schools as pressure has grown to boost test scores and expectations for...
Rebecca Wagner can't forget the most recent student she lost to humiliation. He was about 50 and had been brave enough to make his way to the Community Learning Center in Kensington, not far from Philadelphia. That alone was huge,...
Every year, the Canadian Global Campaign for Education (CGCE) works with partners around the world to organise Global Action Week, an international campaign to tell politicians and journalists that we need to provide quality education to the 75 million children...
When Carole Sample started teaching 22 years ago, reading specialists focused solely on lower-ability students needing reinforcement and repetition. Today, her job as a literacy teacher at Maple Glen Elementary in Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana, also is about broadening the...
From January 26 to March 6, 2009, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is being administered in mathematics, reading, and science to over one million 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade students in more than 19,000 public and private schools across...
Nearly every study table is full with patrons sipping lattes and surfing the Web. Teens are curled up in easy chairs. In a worried knot by the doorway, job seekers gather around a sign-up station for the Internet, waiting for...
Dwindling tax dollars are forcing libraries to close branches, cut hours and end programs just as more people are turning to them for services. "Libraries rely on public dollars, and we know there are less public dollars," says Sari Feldman,...
The International Reading Association has extended the deadline for two of its grants. The Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant deadline is extended to March 13, and the Steven A. Stahl Research Grant is extended to February 16. For further details...
