Generation Zii

A growing number of parents are unschooling their children. ABC News reports there are 56 million American children in traditional schools, with another 1.5 million being homeschooled. Of those, according to the network, about 10 percent are unschooled.

Technology experts say Apple’s latest gizmo, the iPad, won’t replace students’ laptops, but a menu of applications could help teach the periodic table, a range of languages, and a host of other K-12 and higher-education subjects.

A new report just issued by the Center on Education Policy, an independent research organization, confirms that boys have fallen behind in reading in every single state.

At Broadway Elementary School here, there is no more sitting around after lunch. No more goofing off with friends. No more doing nothing. Instead there is Brandi Parker, a $14-an-hour recess coach with a whistle around her neck, corralling children...

Fourth- and fifth-graders at Explorer Elementary School have written their own stories, designed their own games, and programmed their own characters. And it has all been done in a six-week, after-school program called Kodu Club.
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A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English,...

“Teachers and administrators hope students will become as proficient in technology as they do in reading, writing and arithmetic. It’s not cheap, and there’s no proof that having the latest gadgets available will increase student achievement or help them pass...

“As charter schools have grown in New York City, both in number and in popularity, public school principals like Ms. Espinal are suddenly being forced to compete for bodies. So among their many challenges, some of these principals, who had...

ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in some cases — for Lemov to tell them what to do to get better. Related Link: Uncommon Schools

If there were any doubts about the Obama administration's intentions toward education technology, theUnited States Department of Education settled them Friday with the release of the first public draft of theNational Education Technology Plan (NETP). The 114-page document reveals an intent not only to infuse technology throughout the curriculum (and beyond), but to implement some major--sometimes radical--changes to education itself.