News & Issues
- The United States Department of Education is awarding $6.61 million in grants to eight states to help improving reading achievement among poorer students. The monies will fund a range of programs incorporating research-based methods and tools, including education technologies, to help deal with "the challenges of poverty and reading below grade level."More
- The Small School District Association (SSDA) has announced a strategic partnership with educational publisher CTB-McGraw Hill to bring the formative assessment suite Acuity to small districts throughout California at a reduced price.More
- Security professionals who want to protect security budgets during the downturn need to better align their operations with overall business goals, Gartner said last week. That includes treating users as customers and not as obstacles in the race to implement new security technologies.More
- Two schools in North Carolina--South Granville High and Scotland High--have joined a statewide initiative to help bring graduation rates to 100 percent.More
- Collaborative professional development, or the "teacher learning teams" approach, is behind a program being implemented at Battery Creek High School in Beaufort, SC. Pearson is underwriting the use of its Learning Teams program at the school for one year in order to showcase its potential for student improvement.More
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