BrightStar Learning has made the BrightStar Reader, an online application designed to help students with disabilities improve reading and comprehension, available in the United States.
- By Mike Hohenbrink
- 03/28/12
TED, the non-profit organization known for its captivating conferences and thought-provoking sub-20-minute videos on a tapestry of ideas, has launched a new education initiative for K-12, college, and lifelong learning.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/21/12
The Outercurve Foundation has accepted the ChronoZoom big history project, an open source effort designed to make historical connections easier to grasp, after the project was offered to the foundation by the University of California, Berkeley, Moscow State University, and Microsoft Research.
- By Mike Hohenbrink
- 03/19/12
Instructional materials providers Big Ideas Learning and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have launched two new releases in the Big Ideas Math line: Big Ideas Math Accelerated Grade 7 and Big Ideas Math Algebra 1.
- By Mike Hohenbrink
- 03/05/12
With the right tools, students can experience science in a meaningful way, while being challenged and engaged. Erika Fosgreen, accelerated program coordinator at Imagine Rosefield and Imagine Prep Surprise in Arizona, shares her experience doing just that.
- By Erika Fosgreen
- 03/01/12
Scientific Learning has launched MySciLearn, an online platform for accessing Scientific Learning products through a single interface.
Archipelago Learning has added a Common Core benchmarking program and other new features to Study Island, which provides self-paced supplemental online lessons aligned to individual state standards for K-12 classes.
IBM has released free training tools designed to help students, teachers, and parents improve Internet security.
- By Mike Hohenbrink
- 02/08/12
Video taken of the far side of the moon by NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission will be used in classroom's across the country with footage taken by MoonKAM ("Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students") cameras.
- By Mike Hohenbrink
- 02/02/12
Questia, an online research tool for students, has launched a new version of its free Questia Library app to make it compatible with the iPad.