Arne Duncan: ‘We Need More Parents Like Sonia Sotomayor’s Mother’
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.
Everybody Do the Earthquake Dance!
A new educational video uses traditional Indonesian song-and-dance techniques to teach schoolchildren what to do when an earthquake strikes.
More School Districts May Have a Chance to Apply for Innovation Grants
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.
GAO: Adult English-Learning Efforts Need More Coordination
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…
Lab Identifies Ways to Reduce ‘Stereotype Threat’ in the Classroom
A research review says teachers can take three specific steps to help minority students overcome feeling at risk of confirming to negative stereotypes.
Teaching Without Technology
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.