Daily Archives: May 24, 2010

Google In The Classroom: A New Way To Take Attendance, Teach, And More

Google has had a slew of great announcements for educators over the last week. From allowing all .edu email addresses (staff, faculty, and students oh my!) to have access to Google Voice and the big announcement that Google Wave is finally getting some great add-ons…there’s …

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First-Ever Urban, Public Boarding School Proving To Be Huge Success [VIDEO]

A few miles from the White House in southeast Washington sit some of the worst public schools in America. The students there are mostly poor, mostly black, and their test scores are low. Only one in three finish high school; of those who do go …

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Stanford Prepares Bookless Library — More Schools To Follow?

One chapter is closing — and another is opening — as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first “bookless library.” Box by box, decades of past scholarship are being packed up and emptied from two old libraries, Physics and Engineering, to make way …