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Inquiry-based science program passes rigorous evaluation in whole curriculum category. Greenville, WI (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 School Specialty’s science division, Delta Education, announced today its Full Option Science System® (FOSS) is a finalist for the 2013 Association of Education Publishers (AEP) Distinguished Achievement Awards. FOSS is the leading inquiry-based science program in America. Developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and...

PETERBOROUGH, N.H., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- K-12 educators nationwide are registering to attend the Extraordinary Educator's Conference, a brand new and unprecedented national professional development conference from Staff Development for Educators (SDE), taking place in Chicago, July 21-24, 2013. And the lineup of presenters is a major factor in the popularity that the conference is experiencing. The first-of-its-kind conference is a fresh and timely four-day event that is...

A new and innovative real-time student response system, developed by a team of high school teachers and students, is helping students significantly improve classroom performance. Oakland, CA (PRWEB) April 26, 2013 ExitTicket (http://www.exitticket.org) gives teachers real-time information about how well their students are absorbing lessons--even before they walk out the classroom door. The software and accompanying instructional strategies were developed over the past two years by a team...

CARLSBAD, Calif., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Newspaper reporter, a job that traditionally has attracted many aspiring writers, been romanticized in movies and helped bring down corrupt presidents, has been named the worst job in the nation, according to the new 2013 CareerCast.com Jobs Rated Report, which has ranked the best and worst U.S. jobs for 25 years. Ranked at job number 126 when the first Jobs Rated Report was published in 1988, newspaper reporters have fared poorly in...

Renaissance Learning's What Kids Are Reading 2013 Report Finds Pop Culture, College Readiness, and Required Reading Influencing Students' Reading Selections WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- What do The Hunger Games, required reading lists, and state standards have in common? According to the largest annual report of its kind, all three have a huge impact on what today's students are reading. With the increased influence of popular culture, the report also finds...

America's K-12 teachers are not fully prepared to meet a new set of science standards, a Michigan State University education scholar argues in Science. Writing in the April 19 issue, Suzanne Wilson said the professional training landscape for teachers is woefully inadequate to handle the Next Generation Science Standards. The voluntary guidelines, unveiled this month by the advocacy group Achieve in collaboration with 26 states, call for more hands-on learning and analysis and cover fewer...

TIME's Annual List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World NEW YORK, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TIME named College Board President David Coleman to the 2013 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list appears in the April 29 issue of TIME, available on newsstands and tablets on Friday, April 19, and now at time.com/time100. Coleman became the ninth president of the College Board in October 2012. The TIME...

Scholastic recognizes READ 180® and System 44® All-Star Award winners for overcoming the odds and making significant reading gains NEW YORK, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, is excited to recognize 12 outstanding students in grades 4-12 who, through their unwavering determination and with support from their dedicated teachers, have overcome obstacles to make impressive reading gains and...

In the modern knowledge society, pupils and students are expected to acquire increasingly advanced knowledge and skills. A doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that negotiations about how to approach problems and tasks, and about how tools such as digital technologies can be used, provide an effective model for how an educational program can prepare young people for the future. In his doctoral thesis, Patrik Lilja explores how education and instruction can be...

William Esping: "Our foundation believes KIPP DFW's focus on results, emphasis on leadership development, and commitment to excellence will make for a great partnership." DALLAS, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Esping Family Foundation has awarded a five year, one million dollar pace-setting grant to support KIPP Dallas-Fort Worth's (KIPP DFW) Capacity Building Program in southern Dallas. The Capacity Building Program is part of KIPP DFW's larger effort to expand to 10...