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A year-old campaign that seeks to improve the collection and use of data to drive school reform appears to be bearing results: States around the nation are making progress in building longitudinal data systems to support…

When you write as much as I do, you tend to start seeing the larger context of your world view, and forget that some people are just poking their heads in every once in a while, for snapshots, and those snapshots can easily be misinterpreted.
Hence, yesterday, when someone I happen to respect a great deal, […]

The odds are that most Scout Report readers have never seen such a highly animated version of the periodic table of the elements as this, well, rather highly animated table of the elements. Upon entering the site, visitors can browse through the alkali me

Despite its rather daunting title, this series of instructional videos offers a way for teachers and students alike to enter the world of statistics with confidence. Originally produced by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, this 26-part

Started in 1999, the BioLEARN initiative was started as a project by the Center for Biology Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Drawingon the significant human capital of Wisconsin’s talented science educators, the BioLEARN program began dev

What a warm way to end a wonderful Thanksgiving. The K12 Online Conference 2006 organizers sent an e-card and a video to all presenters.Thank you Lani, Darren, Sheryl and Wes! What fun! It was great to see their faces too! I am still enjoying the presentations from the conference. Even more fun!
Wes has shared some […]

Those who have read my blog for a while, know how vexed I get about educations willingness to beg for funding to do its job — to the point that begging has become a part of the institution. So you can imagine that I didn’t start this month’s issue of Interactive Educator with enthusiasm, […]

This is just weird. It’s a brief presentation and conversation that I had at the Google Teacher Academy. They were at Google. I was in my basement office. The picture was taken by Kyle Brumbaugh. I feel like Big Brother in 1984.

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Yesterday, I reported on recent findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project about where people get their science information, and I was thrilled by the conversation that this blog entry provoked, even on a Black Friday, after Thanksgiving. To be fair, not all respondents live in the United States and observe our […]

It’s first period in Judy Herrell’s fifth-grade class at Flamingo Elementary and students are learning about the Civil War. But instead of a textbook, the children’s eyes are glued to the computer screens built into their desks. “Who was General Sherman?

“Assistive technologies help students with special needs, but may also be able to help students who are poor performers or have some special learning style,” said Don Knezek, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “There is a tremen

New software that analyzes the word usage in text appearing in chat rooms and on web sites can help determine the writer’s age, gender, and other characteristics, its maker says. The software could have important implications for internet security, accord