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Mom Accidentally Sends Daughter To School With Gun

School officials at a New York School were surprised this week when a 6-year-old girl pulled out a .25-caliber handgun along with her lunch and school books. The girls mom a retired NYPD detective told her fellow officers ... continue

Skype CEO: We’re Bringing Our Platform To 1 Million Classrooms

Since launching Skype in the Classroom as a beta program this past December the company has signed up more than 16,000 teachers and now they have announced plans to shoot for 1 million educators. Speaking at the Social ... continue

Valve turning on the tap when it comes to education

Here's one I bet you wouldn't have seen coming but it appears that Valve, best known as the creator of such video games as Half-Life and Portal, is joining the Digital Promise education initiative from the President and ... continue

SpongeBob Square Pants Hurts Kids Brains [Study]

He lives in a pineapple under the sea and apparent he also hurts your child's brain according to a research research study. In the study researchers showed children a nine-minute SpongeBob SquarePants video, while another control group watched ... continue

Chicago School Sued For Handcuffing Talking Children, Threatening Them

6-year-old and 7-year-old Children at one Chicago school were handcuffed for hours while being threatened by a school security guard after they were removed from class for talking. According to one Chicago mom's account, school officials in March ... continue

Record Number Of Wisconsin Teachers Retire

Following Gov. Scott Walker's bill which took away a large portion of a teacher's collective bargaining rights in the state of Wisconsin, while making them pay more for benefits, a record number of Wisoncin teacher's have chosen ... continue

California Ruling: Illegal Immigrants Can Receive In-State Tuition

The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that illegal immigrants who take up residency in the state can receive "in-state" tuition when attending school in the area. The same type of law is already available in 11 ... continue

Just what are those college degrees you go into debt for worth?

It is a refrain we hear constantly as we grow up - get your college education because you'll go nowhere without it and so we go into debt in order to live up to others expectations of ... continue

Intel To Give Universities $100 Million For Research

Intel has announced that they are infusing American universities with $100 million in cash over the next five years. According to the chipset manufacturer the money will go to various Intel Science and Technology Centers, with ... continue

According to Bill Gates college should cost $2,000

The one big thing that I don't like about a lot of the so-called online learning is that for the most part it is nothing more than a money machine bilking the government out of millions of ... continue

UEA’s delayed response to climate emails caused by shock, says professor

Former head of research unit responds to criticism by arguing for necessity of assessing excerpts by independent reviews This article was written by Adam Vaughan, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 15th July 2010 00.59 UTCThe former head of the ... continue

Climategate scientists cleared of manipulating data on global warming

Muir Russell report says scientists did not fudge data, but they should have been more open about their work This article was written by David Adam, environment correspondent, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 8th July 2010 01.13 UTCThe climate ... continue

Education: The one resource we can’t afford to screw up – but are.

We live in a society that likes to think that its most important resources are the physical ones like gold, diamonds, oil, or just about anything that can be translated to a dollar amount. However when it ... continue

Disney Offers Refunds For Baby Einstein Product Over Concerns Of Efficacy

If you bought a Baby Einstein DVD between June 5th 2004 and Sept. 4th 2009 you can not receive a full $15.99 refund from Disney for your purchase. The Einstein DVD's claimed they could make your 3 ... continue

An Ode to Childhood Lost

The future of intelligent children’s television programming just became significantly darker, and it truly saddens me - “Reading Rainbow”, a staple of both PBS and bright children nationwide, has been canceled after a wonderful run of 26 ... continue

Google’s secret to taking over the world

There is no denying the fact that Google is a big believer in cloud computing and web based software. In fact much of their future growth is built on the principal of getting as ... continue

Laptops and lobster, or why Maine is cooler than where you live

Today it was announced that the state of Maine, known predominantly for Stephen King, lobster rolls and silly accents, has ordered 64,000 MacBooks for students in grades 7-12. An additional 7,000 laptops are planned for the coming ... continue

Gee tell us something we didn’t know

I caught this one via Allen Stern’s post at CenterNetworks, but did you know that 35% of teens admit to cheating using their cell phones and that 23% don’t consider it cheating. This comes ... continue

Real hope for the next generation

One might think in this day and age of instant gratification, texting non-stop, and sound bite attention spans that appreciation for literature, classic and modern, has fallen by the wayside. Well thanks to Cory ... continue

No wonder edjamucation is such a joke

Part of my youth was spent growing up during a time when the education system was suffering the first of its modern upheavals. I was even given the opportunity to go to one of those free schools ... continue

Education.com Takes Nearly $10 Million

Talk about a good domain name: Education.com has just secured $9.75 million in new funding to further develop its site. The cash comes from Series B funding led by California Technology Ventures. Education.com -- as its name ... continue