From the Harvard Education Letter:

Schools and bullies are so closely linked that even young kids who feel threatened know to avoid unsupervised areas: school yards, locker rooms, stairwells, cafeterias, the school bus. The only problem is, of course, they can't.

Now comes a documentary that will make even the most complacent adult feel the terror that school bullies can inspire. Bully, which opened nationally April 13, offers a hard look at the kind of violent and emotional abuse many children face daily when they leave for school in the morning.

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From The Hudson Star-Observer:

Today's second-graders aren't easy to fool.

"Wisconsin," a youngster named Luke said when the students in Mrs. Julie Warren's classroom were asked where in the world Miss Amara was.

Luke was the second to volunteer an answer, and he was right.

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From The Los Angeles Times:

Students at Locke High School are faring better than their peers in nearby traditional schools, but achievement overall remains low at the charter-managed campus near Watts, according to a new study.

Still, the Locke students were more likely to graduate and to have taken courses needed to apply to a four-year state college, according to the UCLA-based National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. The ongoing research has been funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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From The Innovative Educator:

The International Association for K-12 Online Learning puts out many publications. Here is a list of some of their more recent publications that will be of interest to online learning educators.

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From GovTech.com:

Much like with toy cellphones, kitchenware and hardware tools, children under a certain age once played with toy computers to simulate the experience of working on the real thing. But in recent years, children as young as 2 and 3 years old have eclipsed the step of starting out with a toy version of a piece of technology and are now playing on iPads and other devices before they start kindergarten.

And with the rising fad of mobile devices, public schools are left to decide if the use of devices like iPads should be integrated into class curriculums. While some education officials praise the newer strategy for aiding learning, others claim devices like iPads have no place in the classroom.

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From The Rochester MN Post-Bulletin:

It wasn't long ago when students would be kicked out of classrooms for using cellphones and social media in school.

But now, as more teachers begin to recognize the added teaching and learning capabilities that the social Web can provide, they're starting to embrace these former "distractions" by incorporating them into their classrooms.

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From the Transforming Education through Technology Journal:

Dan Waddell is just the kind of security expert you want on your side. He's been doing IT work for 18 years and began focusing on cyber security 10 years ago. Currently, he works for Arlington, VA-based consulting firm eGlobalTech as a senior director of IT security, advising federal agencies on security strategies. Along the way he's earned his CISSP, the Certified Information Systems Security Professional credential, from (ISC)2 (pronounced, "I-S-C-squared"), an organization that educates and certifies security professionals.

So what's a guy like that doing in a classroom teaching kids as young as seven years old about cyber safety and security? "It's a civic responsibility for me," he said. "I have three kids. This cause hits home for me. I wanted to get involved."

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