Learning Solution – Online Education

Researchers argue in a commentary that investing more money in educational technology and related professional development will not improve student achievement.

A new study explores whether students learn more from animated lessons on computers when they take practice tests afterward.

‘Sexting’ and other technology related issues will be covered at the The U.S. Department of Education’s national conference on Safe and Drug-Free Schools in Maryland.

A state appeals court has ruled that California can stick with English in testing English-language learners for accountability purposes under the No Child Left Behind Act. Nine school districts sued the state over the English-only testing issue in 2005.

A high school in Las Vegas that was named a high-achieving turnaround school by the state of Nevada has a graduation rate of 55 percent. Sixty percent of the school’s 2,800 students are Hispanic.

A federal appeals court invalidated more than three dozen of the company’s patents for online learning-management systems.

In a speech to the National Council of La Raza, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urges Hispanic parents to take after the mother of Sonia Sotomayor and help create more of a college-going culture in the Hispanic community.

A new educational video uses traditional Indonesian song-and-dance techniques to teach schoolchildren what to do when an earthquake strikes.

The U.S. Department of Education wants to loosen a requirement that school districts must make adequate yearly progress goals for two years in a row in order to apply to the $650 innovation grants competition under the American Recovery and Investment Act.

In a report released this week, the United States Government Accountability Office says that the health, education, and labor departments of the federal government need to do a better job of sharing information and working together in providing English classes…

A research review says teachers can take three specific steps to help minority students overcome feeling at risk of confirming to negative stereotypes.

A dean at Southern Methodist University in Dallas is urging educators to teach “naked,” without technology to discourage the kind of passive learning he has witnessed among his students.

At yesterday’s meeting of the National Board for Education Sciences, board members mused on some possible new directions for managing federal education research.

The Clark County School District in Las Vegas, which has many English-language learners, met adequate yearly progress goals overall under the No Child Left Behind Act in 2007 and 2008 but announced last week it failed to make AYP in 2009.

News and report releases about ELLs or immigrants didn’t stop while I was on a two-week vacation. Here are a few noteworthy items: —National Public Radio featured Francisco Ruiz, an English-as-a-second-language teacher at Boston’s English High School who tries to…

Think tank studies aren’t dominating news coverage, says a new report, but they may get more than their share of the spotlight.

The Institute of Education Sciences put out a request today for applications from states looking for grants of up to $9 million to build statewide longitudinal systems for tracking student-level data.

The U.S. Department of Education released new non-regulatory guidance for the $650 million in federal economic-stimulus funds targeted to the Enhancing Education Through Technology program.

The hot topic of Cellphones as Instructional Tools is covered in a Teacher Magazine webinar and an ongoing online forum. Join in the discussion.

An ed-tech blogger asks “Do most educational games suck?” The post ponders the differences in quality and engagement potential between tech games with an academic purpose and commercial ones intended mainly for entertainment.