• 3 Tips on Integrating Technology in the Classroom

  From US News & World Report:

  Integrating technology into a high school classroom isn't a one-step process. "You can't just slap a netbook [computer] on top of a textbook and say, 'Great, now we have technology," says Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance...

• Hatikvah Charter Still Facing Legal Challenges

  From The Jewish Week:

  The emergence of Hebrew charter schools — publicly funded schools that teach Hebrew language and aspects of Jewish culture — has been a controversial development in recent years. Required by law to be open to all regardless of religion or ethnicity, and prohibited from promoting...

• Once A Camper, Always A Camper

  From The Jewish Week:

  Leah Kaplan Robins is only half-joking when she calls herself Mrs. Ramah. An alumna of the Conservative movement's Camp Ramah in New England, she met her future husband — "Mr. Ramah" — there and a few years ago took the initiative with a friend to...

• Trying Not To Smash The Tablets

  From The Jewish Week:

  To the iPad's many functions — electronic reader, Internet browser, music player, camera, gaming console and interactive textbook — add this: discipline tool.

  When Devorah Werdesheim, a teacher at Ohr Chadash Academy in Baltimore finds a student misbehaving, she merely has to temporarily confiscate the device,...

• Day Schools See Future With Non-Jews

  From The Jewish Daily Forward:

  Before sending her 6-year-old son, Charlie, off to day school in September, Brenda Hite wondered if she'd made the right decision. Neither Hite nor her husband, Tom, are Jewish, but the public school options in their hometown of Akron, Ohio, didn't enthrall them. So...

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