When the novel coronavirus pandemic prompted the transition to remote learning at Penn State, faculty and administrators in the Department of Mechanical Engineering were prepared for the challenge.

After a successful pilot, a professional development program is looking to expand its lesson-study approach to rural teachers.

The 8TB SSD prototype includes SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps support; WD also showed off a portable Luxe drive with USB-C and five WD_Black drives for console and PC gamers

A new guide from the National Center for Learning Disabilities and Understood.org offers advice on how school leaders can best serve students with disabilities and support special education teachers.

A leading autism researcher and former special education teacher offers advice to help students cope with the abrupt changes brought on by the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The proposed priority for special education grants is the latest push by the U.S. Secretary of Education to embed more choice for students and educators in federal K-12 funding.

A survey of educators around the country found that many reported looking up interventions on their own, when they really wanted more formal training, a survey found.

An educator's experience teaching math is important, but performance on math-content-certification tests is the best predictor of how well a teacher's students will perform in early algebra, finds a new study by the Regional Educational Laboratory Central at Marzano Research.

Three Berks Thun Library employees received the 2020 Innovation in College Librarianship Award from the College Libraries Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. The award honors librarians who demonstrate a capacity for innovation in working with or serving undergraduates or instructors in the areas of programs, services, and operations, or creating innovations for library colleagues that facilitate their ability to better serve the library’s community.

Despite being rebuked by Congress in its bid to do so last year, the U.S. Department of Education says it will use Education Innovation and Research funds for teacher professional development vouchers.

Finalists Portugal and Italy each supply four players to the starting XI in the official Team of the Tournament.

Winners Spain provide six of the Under-19 EURO team of the tournament from Armenia.

Teacher-preparation programs need to better prepare teachers, and especially white teachers, to serve students and communities of colors more effectively, the report says.

It may be a slow time for K-12 activity on Capitol Hill, but you can't really same the same about higher education, with competing bills vying for attention in the House and Senate.

Quiz Yourself: What are today's biggest challenges to teacher recruitment?

The National Council on Teacher Quality has found that the number of elementary programs teaching scientifically based reading instruction is increasing.

"This is a very values-oriented generation—they seek to work with purpose and passion, and without that, they'll leave," an education leader at Microsoft said about Generation Z teachers.

Nearly every state in the nation has experienced enrollment declines, with some states seeing steep declines of more than 50 percent.

The National Council on Teacher Quality has found that the number of elementary programs teaching scientifically based reading instruction is increasing.

Like other Americans, liberal and conservative teachers perceive news sources' credibility differently. How does that affect their teaching of media literacy?

Student-teachers are grappling with uncertainty over housing, graduation requirements, and their ability to meet requirements for the edTPA licensing test.

"There's a science of learning, and ... there's not a single teacher who couldn't benefit, I think, from knowing these principles," said the executive director of Deans for Impact, a group of education school leaders.

Teacher-preparation programs are rushing to figure out how to support teacher-candidates while still meeting state requirements, which are starting to be revised in some places.

On the tech front, expect deals on Alexa smart speakers and displays, Fire TV media streamers, Fire tablets, Kindle ebook readers, home security devices, TVs, gaming gear, printers, and more.

“How about defining student and teacher performance based on what parents and citizens actually want for their children—all of the goals, not just one,” suggests Donald B. Gratz.

Such compensation plans are rarely used in the private sector and can sometimes bring about unintended negative consequences, the analysis argues.

The Los Angeles school district wants to pay teachers based on how much they improve their students' scores on standardized tests, an idea that has provoked a negative reaction from the teachers' union.

Iowa appears to be poised to consider a pay-for-performance compensation plan for teachers, following the lead of a handful of districts and schools that have embraced the controversial policy.

Amid bad feelings between the union and district administrators, Cincinnati teachers overwhelmingly rejected a groundbreaking plan that would have based their pay on performance.

Federal education officials have begun announcing a new round of grants from the Teacher Incentive Fund.

Another dozen school districts have landed federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants, including one that will focus on paying principals and assistant principals for their performance.

Basing teachers' pay on merit might give a small boost to students' reading achievement—if teachers understand how it works.

In Denver, teachers will go on strike Monday to protest a performance-pay system that’s been in place for 15 years. The dispute is illustrative of a larger national shift away from differentiated pay.

Innovative professional development initiatives infuse technology with in-person learning to enhance learning experiences for teachers.

The universe is full of questions waiting to be solved. So why teach science like all the discoveries have already been made? asks Alexander Bell.

Many teachers leave preservice training without clarity on what the cognitive science says about how students learn to read.

The Laurel Highlands boys basketball team will be honored at the USCAA Men’s Division II Basketball National Championship Game on Wednesday, March 11, at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus.

Ten student teams will be funded to use AI for Good to build and submit a minimum viable product in the Nittany AI Challenge for a chance to compete for a portion of a $25,000 prize pool. Students were invited to submit their ideas to improve the world by providing solutions for problems within the areas of education, health, humanitarian challenges, sustainability and climate change.

Within days of the University's shift to remote learning, faculty, instructors and teaching assistants in the Department of Geography moved 35 resident instruction courses into remote delivery mode to teach 1,947 students.

Since learning is so nuanced, so too should be the means in which we assess it. Let's offer students the opportunity to be seen as whole people who can demonstrate different skills and knowledge in a plethora of ways over a period of time.

Group projects founder when students don't work well together. Here's the latest thinking on evaluating students on both content mastery and collaboration skills.

Education Week asked three 8th grade teachers to evaluate real student responses to an open-ended question on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in social studies. Here's what they said.

"When the day came to administer the first test I had designed," writes Brandon Lewis, "my heart sank."

To continue supporting Penn State faculty’s remote teaching, Teaching and Learning with Technology is offering virtual office hours each day during the week of March 16. During these sessions, instructors can get help with transitioning their courses from a residential format to remote.

The Netgear M5 is the 5G hotspot we've been waiting for, but it isn't coming out until the second half of the year. A separate Netgear CES announcement, meanwhile, showed another weakness of 5G in the US right now.

Four Portugal players, three from Germany and two each representing France and Wales have made the official UEFA EURO 2016 Team of the Tournament.

Spain and Germany dominate the U21 EURO Team of the Tournament, supplying ten of the 11 players.

Six Penn State faculty members have received the 2020 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.

External speakers will allow drivers to talk to pedestrians without opening a window, or play pre-recorded clips to passers-by.

Many teachers leave preservice training without clarity on what the cognitive science says about how students learn to read.