Gen Z students want STEM careers
Many high school and college students chose STEM as their No. 1 preferred career path, according to a survey of 11,495 Gen Z students conducted by the National…
interest
Reading Horizons Launches Free Online Community to Support the Science of Reading
KAYSVILLE, UT — Reading Horizons, a company committed to partnering with educators to eradicate illiteracy, has launched the Science of ... Read more
4 tips for online learning success in schools
Our school has been using online learning since the mid-1990s when we became one of the first to sign up for VHS Learning. Since then, we’ve expanded our…
YouScience Releases National Student Ability Report, Indicates Widening Gap Between Students Aptitudes and Workforce Needs
AMERICAN FORK, Utah, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience, the leading student engagement platform that leverages data science to improve student success and ... Read more
How teachers can make history current this Presidents’ Day
Social Studies teachers seem to have an impossible challenge: take events that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago and make them relevant to today’s teens. That explains…
Unistellar Research: Got Questions About Outer Space? Forget Google—Just Ask Your Kids
San Francisco—February 3, 2022— A pathbreaking study just confirmed something that many parents already suspected: young Americans have a voracious ... Read more
The State of Utah Empowers Educators to Close the Career Exposure Gap for Students Across the State
AMERICAN FORK, Utah, Jan. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience, the only fully-integrated platform provider of highly accurate aptitude-based assessments, personalized career guidance, ... Read more
Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Support Families with New No-Cost Resources to Ignite Student Interest in STEM
Silver Spring, Md. (Thursday, September 16, 2021) — To accelerate student learning and ignite student curiosity in STEM, Discovery Education presents ... Read more
OverDrive Education Donates Juvenile & Young Adult Titles to Schools Worldwide
CLEVELAND – September 1, 2021 – To help schools meet growing demand for digital content without increasing budget, OverDrive Education ... Read more
Carolina Biological Supply Company’s New Young Innovators Program Inspires Students with K-12 Students’ Inventions
BURLINGTON, NC, Aug. 2, 2021 – Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological launched the Young Innovators program to highlight student ... Read more
How teletherapy enables access to special education services
Whenever families shift from public education into alternative modes of education, there is a particular need to pay attention to services for students with disabilities.
How to take personalized learning to scale
iNACOL defines personalized learning as “tailoring learning for each student’s strength, needs, and interests—including enabling student's voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn—to provide…
What AI can and can’t do in education
When some people hear the term “artificial intelligence,” they think of robots like the ones in the Steven Spielberg movie AI. In education today, AI is something less…
A national esports effort aims to ‘change the trajectory’ for students
As a student, video gamer and flight instructor Hudson Davis was often bored in school. He found that many classes provided only a surface-level understanding of key topics—and…
5 ways to nurture a cybersecurity interest in a healthy way
It’s something no teacher or administrator wants to think about, but what if one of your students is showing an interest in computer hacking? Teachers--sometimes more than parents--can…
SAM Labs Launches Successful Teacher Accelerator Program
The program includes group workshops with like-minded educators, one-on-one training with our Senior Education Consultants, training on how to implement ... Read more
Kids Discover Partners with Rhino Records to Release Free Units Celebrating Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield for Black History Month
Kids Discover, a leading provider of high-interest nonfiction for social studies and science, has partnered with Rhino Records, the catalog ... Read more
Tampa Middle School Receives the Superstar Treatment with Ashly Audio-Backed System
Sligh Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Florida has an audio system worthy of a superstar performance thanks to professional wrestler ... Read more
High School Students Dive into Media Production
For the last few decades, U.S. school curriculum has centered on college preparation, but in recent years, parents, teachers and ... Read more
Activities to keep kids engaged and learning during the summer
BrainPOP, the online educational solution that makes rigorous learning experiences accessible and engaging for all students, today announced a new product ... Read more
New Science Kit Series for Educators
Carolina Biological introduced a new Next Generation Science Standards® (NGSS)-aligned science kit series for educators of elementary students in both ... Read more
Language supports for offline schools worldwide
Lingoda, Europe’s leading online language school, is supporting offline language learning institutions across the world facing the sudden transition to ... Read more
Free access to English and Spanish eBook libraries
Benchmark Education is are now offering free access to their extensive collection of eBooks to families and educators. The library ... Read more
11 resources for STEM, STEAM, and makerspaces
It's easy enough to decide to focus more on a specific topic or skill, such as STEM, in the classroom, but it's sometimes more difficult to find tools…
Robotics isn’t scary! 4 benefits of working with robots
Robotics is attracting more student interest, and there's a reason--when students can make real-world connections between what they learn in the classroom and exciting careers, their engagement and…
What Is Good Leadership in Schools?
A recent study found that not one school (of 180 surveyed) was able to improve student achievement records without effective ... Read more
6 tips to help your students collaborate on awesome podcasts
A 2019 Edison Research survey reported that 51% of Americans above the age of 12 have listened to a podcast. Interest in podcasts has increased 122% since 2014,…
5 Cool STEM Grants for 2019
Although we're still in the middle of our current school year, it's never too early to get a jump on grants for the 2019-2020 year--especially where STEM funding…
Early coding can greatly benefit students–here’s how one school does it
Coding for students and computer programming are slowly becoming part of the core curriculum in schools and districts across the U.S.--and some educators say the earlier students start…
#4: 25 education trends for 2018
Year after year, educators and those invested in education love to speculate about what will take off in the near future.
Want to get struggling readers enthusiastic about reading? Here’s how
With 10 million students in grades K-12 struggling to read, taking those struggling readers from disengaged to enthused may seem like a huge feat. However, doing just one…
Survey: Boys have waning interest in STEM careers
Boys' interest in STEM careers has dropped over the past year, while girls' interest remains the same, according to an annual survey from Junior Achievement and Ernst &…
Is STEM getting ‘IT’ right for female students?
March 8th was memorable for many reasons. Not only was it International Women’s Day, but Meghan Markle made one of her first official public appearances with her future…
How we developed a personalized PBL model for STEM
How can schools and districts prepare students for college and careers in STEM? Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher…
Girls and STEM: A female engineer shares her path
Many people leave Disney World dreaming of becoming a princess, but when I experienced Disney for the first time as a three-year-old, I left the parks with a…
4 key ways ESSA can support SEL in schools
Although student achievement in core subjects is commonly used to define success, more educators agree that student success also depends on learning about intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies--commonly known…
Everyone has a role to play in education today
As we enter a new year, education is a topic that continues to resonate well beyond the classroom into the core aspects of daily life, from home and…
Text, tweet, email, call—what do parents want in school communications?
When it comes to school communications, parents today want more information from their children’s teachers and schools, but they also want that information to be timely, targeted, and…
17 instructional practices for social and emotional learning
Interest around social and emotional learning continues to expand, due in part to recognition that positive social and emotional skills can help improve students' behavioral and academic outcomes…
What’s next in ed-tech? These 18 trends
I do a lot of speaking about technology trends in education, and none of my talks seem to get larger ... Read more