Earlier this week (February 7, 2012) President Obama hosted the second White House Science Fair. This event celebrated student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country. As you are well aware if you have spent any [...]
Continue Reading →Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his third annual state of the union address. In a speech heavily focused on manufacturing, job training and tax reform, Obama took the time to outline why teachers matter. Our education technology company is committed to many of the same strategies and approaches to education [...]
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The House Education Committee’s final two bills to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would dramatically reduce the federal footprint in holding schools accountable for performance and transform the nation’s approach to improving teacher effectiveness.
The bills’ key provisions would
Maintain current requirements to test students in reading [...]
Continue Reading →2011 was a very interesting year in terms of technology in the classroom, and certainly 2012 promises to be even more dynamic. It has been interesting to watch how so many wonderful technological innovations have started to impact how students learn and how teachers teach, both inside and outside of the classroom. It [...]
Continue Reading →Recently computer manufacturer Lenovo released the results of a global survey called “2011 Global Student Science and Technology Outlook” where they asked students (4,800 of them) from seven different nations how they felt about science and technology and space exploration.
Lenovo and Text 100 have commissioned this study in order explore student attitudes [...]
Continue Reading →This weekend the New York Times ran a very interesting article Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard) which we wanted to spotlight here on the Why Science Blog.
The article does a great [...]
Continue Reading →We are very happy to be supporting a great cause that has been put together by our dear friend Gwen Samuel and her colleagues at the CT Parents Union called “Tis The Season To Be Reading“. In addition we are very happy to share with you that Why [...]
Continue Reading →There is a very interesting discussion happening in the Washington Post right now surrounding a study done by Georgetown University economist Anthony Carnevale but the bottom line is that Carnevale and his team reviewed previously unreleased census data over a long period of time and instead of focusing [...]
Continue Reading →Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News and World Report chairman and editor-in-chief just gave a very passionate interview on the need to encourage STEM learning in our K-12 schools. Before diving in too far we’d just like to say HOORAY Mr. Zuckerman – your words were very well received over here at Continue Reading →
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