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3D printing at Mahtomedi High School in the outer Minneapolis suburbs has come a long way in four years. In 2011, the school first opened its fabrication laboratory, or FABLab, [...]

AS CELL PHONES--WITH ever-expanding possibilities of texting, Web browsing, and game playing--have multiplied in recent years among teenagers and even preteens, so have the concerns of teachers and administrators about [...]

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Empire High School, a low-slung, seven-building complex in the foothills east of Tucson, has plenty of new technology, including a one-to-one laptop program for all 850 students and a [...]

IF THE SCHOOLS IN YOUR district are like most in the United States, there is a good chance that today's lunch features pizza, hot dogs, chicken nuggets or maybe hamburgers [...]

IN THE DIGITAL WORLD WE LIVE IN, BEING A 'VIEWER' is passe. Web 2.0 tools--social networks, wikis, blogs, voicestream, YouTube, Google Docs--allow users to be participants. Instead of creating isolated [...]

IN 2005, CYNTHIA SHIEH, chief financial officer of the Los Gatos (Calif.) Union School District, noticed a serious problem: More than $100,000 of technology equipment had gone missing that year. [...]

PRESENTATION DEVICES were among the most commonly nominated products. Interactive Whiteboards Whiteboards in particular continue to be utilized increasingly in districts, and not only in the United States. Worldwide sales [...]

School visitors are no longer just writing their names in a notebook when they sign in. Districts are now scanning fingerprints and eyes to check if a visitor or contractor [...]

PROMPTED BY THE FEDERAL NO Child Left Behind law and state mandates for improved proficiency in writing and other skills, district leaders have intensified their focus on writing in elementary [...]

LAST YEAR, WHEN THE NEW England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) put Rockland High School in Massachusetts on probation--largely because of its outdated science labs--it didn't surprise Principal Stephen [...]

GIVEN A STRAINED ECONOMY with skyrocketing fuel prices and homeowner foreclosures that threaten property tax rolls, plus pressures to satisfy mandates for improved student achievement, district administrators must tighten belts, [...]

HOW CAN CHILDREN LEAD PRODUCTIVE and satisfying lives in the 21st century if in school we are having them use technology from the 20th century? The hallmark of the 21st [...]

AT THE VERONA AREA (Wis.) School District, administrators, teachers and parents have recently faced an increasingly common challenge: continuing to provide essential school supplies to their 4,500 students despite $1.1 [...]

ALREADY UNDER PRESSURE to boost student achievement levels and rein in spending, district administrators face another challenge when it comes to educating students with learning disabilities. With 4 to 6 [...]

THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND WEB 2.0 IS changing the way students think, speak and gather information. The trends involved are also changing how teachers and administrators access and [...]

WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE HARDWARE in The Readers' Choice Top 100 K12 Products of 2007-08. Hardware advances, coupled with lower prices and increased Internet connectivity and interactivity, make the technology [...]

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE Pacific Northwest tree octopus? Most likely not. Good thing there is a Web site on the Internet to tell you all about it! According to [...]

A YEAR AGO WHEN THE CHERRY Creek School District in Colorado was considering ways to fund a GPS tracking system so dispatchers would know the location of buses, officials asked, [...]

WHEN KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS in Cincinnati-area schools were tested on their basic reading skills last fall, examiners found that 13.5 percent of the children needed intensive instructional support in phoneme segmentation [...]

EVERY MONTH A NEW PORTABLE MP3 PLAYER IS ON THE market--and they're not just for music. Known more as personal media players than music players, their use transcends age, lifestyle [...]

WHEN THE NATIONAL COUNCIL of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published Curriculum Focal Points for Pre-kindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics: A Quest for Coherence last September, the document targeted what many [...]

DAVID MCDIVITT'S STUDENTS ARE GATHERED IN THE HALL between classes, talking excitedly about how tomorrow they can stop Hitler's terror. McDivitt isn't concerned, however. In fact, he's pleased. The discussion [...]

Procurement can be complicated and time consuming, as everyone from librarians to teachers to administrators navigate through multiple printed forms, thick product catalogs, numerous vendors, time-sensitive price lists, as well [...]

After several years adjusting to NCLB mandates, K12 districts have become familiar with what's required to make Adequate Yearly Progress in math and language arts, and now science is getting [...]

The 1999 shootings at Columbine High administrators thinking about it. The tragedy of 9/11 made many sign up for it. And the recent spate of school-related shootings last fall has [...]

In Lima, Ohio, a town of 40,000, Michael Lamb, superintendent of Perry Local Schools, recalls thinking in graduate school 20 years ago that good school districts would never need to [...]

When a K12 supervisor recently observed a teacher in a classroom with continuing discipline problems, he noticed that she consistently violated a fundamental teaching technique by asking 'everyone questions.' Questions [...]

While many observers feel that the public schools of New Orleans were a disaster before Hurricane Katrina made it to the weather map, the storm created an unexpected chance to [...]

Amy Casey didn't need convincing that her Treo handheld computer was an essential part of her first year as an Assistant Principal at Gracemore Elementary. 'I love all things techie,' [...]

When Dr. Jim Phares joined Marion County Schools in 2003 as superintendent, he was a bit disappointed that most of the district's administrators, principals and teachers were hardly using any [...]

Fourth graders in Barbara Preziosi's class at Sebastian Elementary School are so taken with their Palm Tungsten handhelds that they won't let them go. They carry them in holders around [...]

Web sites like those described to the left are likely off limits for most students in districts that have one-to-one laptop initiatives allowing students to take the computers home. And [...]

You'd be hard pressed to find a school district that leaves improving test scores, budgeting for new technology or developing the curriculum to chance. But too many schools do exactly [...]

If he were a character, the audience would know the enigmatic 'Q' in his name stands for Quirites, signifying his father s subtle hope that his son's future would make [...]

THIRTY YEARS AGO, Congress announced that more than half of American children with disabilities were not receiving appropriate educational services. Today, American schools have a world-class system for differentiating instruction [...]

Teachers at Oakwood Elementary School in Lakewood, Wash., outside of Seattle, watched TV at their first staff meeting last fall, and the dial was turned to the local news. 'They [...]

WHETHER YOUR DISTRICT HIRES TWO OR 2,000 TEACHERS EACH YEAR, it's a challenging process. First, you need to make sure you're tapping into the best pool of candidates. Then you [...]

She had no financial expertise--in fact, Veronica Klinefelt was a stay-at-home morn with a high school diploma when she won her bid for a seat on the East Detroit School [...]

Drug dealing in American high schools can look as innocent as buying an ice cream cone. And that is exactly what happened in El Paso, Texas, last year. An ice [...]

Like the crest of a wave that's been building slowly as it rolls toward shore, the high school reform movement broke in 2005. For years, elementary school education has been [...]

What do you get when you take seven strong school district leaders, add insight, wisdom and hardwork? Find out how these superintendents created a consortium, what they accomplish together and [...]

To teach one way or various ways? That is the question swirling in a junior high school in New Jersey. Now that data can be broken down and manipulated into [...]

At New York's Hudson Falls High School, Tracy Jameson leads her Earth Science class into a computer lab. The 18 ninth graders take their positions in front of empty screens [...]

In the words of Kenneth Eastwood, the superintendent job is getting tougher and tougher. It's not just about improving student performance. Today's superintendents must also be financial geniuses and savvy [...]

Dennis Littky may be America's most important educator. After three decades of leading major school innovation in New York, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, Littky, along with co-founder and co-director [...]

If EduComm '05 was any indication, there's an audio/visual revolution occurring in our schools. The EduComm conference, held in June in conjunction with InfoComm, provided ample evidence of the convergence [...]

Quick, what's the one, hot topic that Seymour Papert, Susan Patrick and a host of others agree on? Surprise, it's not technology, at least technically. Of course, both the MIT [...]

Dear Johann, My name is Schuyler and I live in Delmar, Maryland, USA. I like video games and pizza. Also, I like to ride bikes. I am going on a [...]

Thanks to Major League Baseball, anabolic steroid use and abuse is once again in the news. In his State of the Union address this January, President Bush called for legislation [...]

All the teachers in Cheltenham Township School District were clamoring for new desktop PCs, convinced that it was old, slow processors making their classroom computing crawl. But Gary Bixby, director [...]