Archipelago Learning's $106M IPO planned this week

When Archipelago Learning Inc. goes public this week, investors will weigh the strong growth in the educational programs provider's products against shrinking budgets at public K-12 schools.

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Games and gizmos for a smarter school year

Not all electronic games turn kids into couch potatoes. From literacy games to tween-friendly netbooks, here is the latest high-tech gear worth buying to get your child ahead this fall.

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Somali pirates hone their tactics

The Somali pirates who hijacked the Danish tug Svitzer Korsakov telephoned Yemen, Djibouti and Dubai in a futile search for someone to collect a ransom and forward it to them for a fee. To the captive captain, they seemed like amateurs with no backup on shore.

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Nobel Learning rejects Knowledge Learning bid

Nobel Learning Communities Inc., which runs more than 180 private schools, said Thursday that its board has unanimously rejected a $13.50 per share takeover bid by Knowledge Learning Corp.

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Court enters funding fight for English learning

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Arizona is providing enough money for programs for students who are learning the English language.

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What happens after you flush? RI offers new tour

Ever wonder what happens after you yank the chain on the old commode? Rhode Island is offering tours of several wastewater treatment facilities during what its dubbed the first annual "Rhode Island Water Infrastructure Month."

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Studies: Video games can aid students, surgeons

Parents, don't put away those video games just yet — today's gamer may be tomorrow's top surgeon. Researchers who gathered in Boston for the American Psychological Association convention detailed a series of studies suggesting video games can be powerful learning tools — from increasing younger students' problem-solving potential to improving the suturing skills of laparoscopic surgeons.

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Blackboard Wins Round in E-Learning Case

A federal jury in Texas has sided with e-learning company Blackboard Inc. in a patent case against rival Desire2Learn that pitted two leading education software developers in a dispute closely watched by campus IT officers.

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College Teaches One Class at a Time

It's a silly old expression, but Professor Eric Leonard says it's true: The best geologist is the one who's seen the most rocks.

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Computer model may explain toddlers' chattering

Young children become chatterboxes within months of barely being able to speak a few words. Now one scientist thinks he knows why.

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Sleep well before learning something new

Sleep deprivation can severely hamper the brain’s ability to learn, a new study demonstrates.

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Alzheimer's drug also combats brain injuries

A drug currently used to treat Alzheimer’s disease has shown promise in clinical trials as a treatment for patients with traumatic brain injuries.

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Ariz. Racking Up Court Fines Over Schools

Roughly six years after a federal judge ordered Arizona's governor and lawmakers to improve programs for students learning English, the two sides are at a potentially expensive impasse.

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No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. At least not because kids didn't do their homework -- because there isn't any at one Ontario school.

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Children's inability to ignore candy is what also makes them great at discovery and learning per psychological studies and papers...

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When the SEC released thousand of pages of evidence from its investigation into epic fraudster Bernie Madoff, The NY Times sifted through the documents and drew several conclusions, including: "the paperwork… also tells a tale of unseasoned people uncertain about what to do a …

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At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish.

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In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.

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French neuroscientist Bruno della Chiesa met with his country's education minister in Paris to talk about the groundbreaking international movement to link the fields of teaching and brain science.

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Co-Concurrance and Deviants

Over the years much has been said concerning movies,television, the media in general and violence, while it has been brought to light that these things could possibly affect the workings of a so called healthy brain.First let us concider everyone has a healthy brain,nervous sys …

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A study indicates that efforts to improve ourselves that stress us out initially can lead to more happiness overall.

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The Pregnancy Book has been revised and will be given free to expectant mothers and parents in England. The book is extremely popular and a trusted authority on all aspects of maternity.

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When I Thought About it for a Second I Recognized it, Why Have They Not?

In my daughter's Kinder-garden class there is a student, whom everyone knew since the first day because in the whole school he was the only one to get an "x" on his first day behavior chart. I will call him Art, this way I do not give away his name.

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School pupils affected by the earthquake in Padang, Indonesia, have been sending their stories to BBC News 'Hunger to Learn'.

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The earthquake that struck L'Aquila last April destroyed many of the city's schools. For the last in our series Hunger to Learn, Duncan Kennedy has visited the Italian city to hear why pupils there no longer take education for granted.

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Around the world millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a proper education. In the fourth report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Lorna Gordon talks to 11-year-old Jordan, whose long journey to school every morning involves a bike ride, a ferry, and a bus.

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Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because illness or disability prevent them going to school. In the third report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Will Ross meets children in Tanzania who are overcoming visual impairment to learn.

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Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because of poverty or war. In the second report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Katya Adler meets children in Gaza whose schooling has been repeatedly interrupted by conflict.

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Here We Go................

Not sure this will take me......I've written about this before on a blog, but never went back to it. I'm going to do it again to see where this one goes. I am a NYC high school teacher. I've been one for some time now.

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Educating a Stuborn HCG!

It truly is very easy to educate me when you catch my attention, like my friend has, he ha found a very specific way to help me undertand many things and learn from then as well and learn of myself also, he just simplyp paid attention to what I say from times to times.

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Wow, Seriously I Think I Need to be More of an Ass!

Ok so I place my second individual on my ignore list. I take that button very seriously.

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Every year for at least the past eight years, Master Deputy Chris Lucas has taken fifth-graders from Price's Fork Elementary School to the Montgomery County Courthouse to watch what goes on in the courtroom.

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Back to Kinder-garden, First Day.

Today was back Kinder-garden for me and my little girls mom. The teacher asked all the parents if we could volunteer to please do so, and since I have some time on my hands, I did just that. We walked Madison to the Auditorium and headed to Mrs, Bautista's classroom.

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First Parent_Teacher Conference and My Take on It.

Well My little one has been in school for exactly 7 days and we have the first parent-teacher conference, it was a general information meeting with the kinder-garden teacher. There were about 20 parents and Mrs. Bautista, Madison's (my daughter) teacher.

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1. I fear followers of the genetic models will try to build a case for genetic learning differences or body mass requiring more activity or tactile learning. Note that nice middle class Males do not have this problem.

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Seniors and Disabled in the South Learning to Master Personal Computers...

Gloria Keith said:

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SocioPolitical Informed Choices--In "Modern" America and the World.

Who are these presumptuous American Citizens, Yellow; Black; Brown or White who ignorantly label President Obama: "African-American or Black? The Biology of his Being belies the factual none-reality of such an hurried and misspoken assessment. Mr.

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When a new child brings a new language to Newbury Park Primary school, they are treated like little movie stars.

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