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• July 21, 2010
• 18:45

  Reforming Our Schools: Nonacademic Support for Students is Essential

   » ‎ Edutopia
  Blogger Anne O'Brien recommends that meeting the non-academic needs of students, such as providing counseling and eye glasses, is a crucial part of school reform.

• 18:32

  Mass. Adopts Common Standards Amid Fiery Debate

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  The state board's vote is seen as a tipping point in the effort to set common guidelines for what students learn in school.

• 17:10

  Virtual Learning to the Rescue

   » ‎ THE Journal
  As valedictorian of his senior high school class, Jed Michal was naturally expected to give the commencement speech during the graduation ceremonies of his East Colorado high school. Though stuck in a Texas hospital a week out from a bone marrow transplant for leukemia--a disease that had robbed him of his entire junior year--he was able to deliver that once-in-a-lifetime address thanks to videoconferencing technology implemented by his district's regional co-op.
• 14:38

  Report: Spam Dominates E-Mail, Grows 14 Percent in 2010

   » ‎ THE Journal
  The volume of e-mail and Web threats continues increasing, and United States-based servers are hosting more than twice as much malicious code as the next two contenders combined, according to a new security report.

• 14:08

  Federal Judge Rules Cheerleading Not a Sport

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 14:08

  Mass. Board Approves Move to Common Standards

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  

• 12:37

  Prepping Teachers for a 1:1 Laptop Initiative

   » ‎ THE Journal
  In 2008, children in Birmingham, AL, received XO computers through a government program designed to help bridge the digital divide for inner-city schoolchildren. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project put the low-cost, wireless devices into the hands of 15,000 students in first through sixth grades, making it the largest 1:1 distribution in the United States.

• 9:36

  N.Y. Schools Wait to See How Regents Change Will Affect Students

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 8:23

  Judge Reconsiders Idaho Broadband Contract Case

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 8:23

  Small improvement seen in school assessments

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 8:23

  Data Project Will Track N.D. Students' Progress

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 0:01

  Common Standards Judged Better Than Most States'

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  A Fordham Institute review says that the common core standards are an improvement over teaching guidelines now used in 33 states.