U.S. homework outsourced as "e-tutoring" grows
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Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India.
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By Andrea Rivera, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 21--By introducing middle school girls to Web page design, robotics and lip-gloss ingredients, IBM is hoping to spark their interest in math and science.
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Attendees at this year&#146;s PowerSchool University ramped up their student information system skills with the new PowerSchool 4.0 and augmented their development activities through peer networking. [Aug 3]
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Blog: A Silicon Valley upstart caters to time-pressed parents with a new reference Web site that's all about child-age schooling.
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A study says high levels of computer technology can improve school results, but the picture is mixed.
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Science instructor Roxanne Hunker&#39;s methods are a bit unorthodox: She shuns science textbooks and seldom assigns homework. Yet year after year, her hands-on instruction has groomed a multitude
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Despite a market filled with more than 15 private international schools, those working in the sector are reporting increases in enrollment among expatriate and Hungarian children - the response to which has ...
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Media & professional: Local government officials have advised parents to be cautious about hiring private tutors.
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By Barbara Grady  A couple of years ago, Jim Marggraff created a pen for school kids that couldn't be beat. If you wrote out an algebra problem with it on special paper, it would help you figure out the answer, spouting advice from a voice-activated computer inside the pen.
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By Michaela Saunders, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 19--Does having their own computers during the day help elementary students become better writers? Or better understand what they read?   Omaha Public Schools began a program to test those questions last year.
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By Melissa Jenco Daily Herald Staff Writer  Naperville Unit District 203 increased its use of instructional technology last year and is already exceeding several of its long- term goals.
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Private tutors are a luxury many  American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25  to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one  online for $2.50 an hour -- in India.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 17--It started so simply.   Joi Sigers, a Madisonville native, was home schooling her three daughters.   And she worried that they weren't getting the kind of computer training that public schools could offer.
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When Penn Manor High School technology teacher Shawn Canady asked for volunteers to create interactive-learning games for first- graders, three of his students stood up.  When the task was completed hundreds of hours later, only one student was left standing: senior Rob Drummond.
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Children with at least one parent born   outside the United States are more likely to study math and   physical sciences in college, driven by the aim of securing a   well-paid job, according to a study released on Thursday.
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The for-profit education company teaches shareholders about addition by subtraction.
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Students at one university are being assessed by their tutor using the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia.