Video courtesy of New Day (KING 5 News) Adora Svitak started writing at age five and hasn’t stopped since. Now 12 years old, she has published three books (Flying Fingers, Dancing Fingers, and Yang in Disguise), writes ...

The education documentary Waiting for Superman has been making waves the past few months as bloggers and movie critics post their reviews from film festival screenings around the country. One such blogger, Latoya Peterson, was deeply ...

Here’s the latest from the Let’s Read. Let’s Move. initiative. Last Thursday, U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan joined Marian Robinson, mother of First Lady Michelle Obama, to read with local students from the Columbia Heights Youth Club’s ...

A new video infographic from GOOD Magazine and Chris Weller takes a broad look at the state of education in America today. Compared to many other first world countries, we’re falling rapidly and dangerously behind.

Friday, July 23, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week. • The College Board warns that the growing education deficit in the U.S. threatens ...

As technology becomes more and more instrumental in the classroom and beyond, how can we prevent America’s achievement gaps from widening? Today, computers are the new pen and paper. Per Scholas, a nonprofit in New York City ...

This new video from a conversation at Penn State offers a lot of wisdom from one of the key figures of education innovation, Sir Ken Robinson. In this conversation, Robinson expands on the ideas he introduced ...

Awesome Book Tour from Dallas Clayton on Vimeo. Dallas Clayton had a small idea: he wanted to write a book for his son to encourage him to dream and dream often. He decided to print a few ...

Friday, July 16, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week. • Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urges Congress to act now on school funding. ...

From the movie “Blackboard Jungle” (1955), filmed in El Segundo High School. Budget cuts, teacher layoffs, and furloughs are part and parcel in school districts across the country during a recession. Many schools are looking for creative, ...