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SLJ talks to Rick Riordan about his latest bestseller 'The Red Pyramid,' book one of the Kane Chronicles. More...

Terri Clark, teen patron services specialist at the Smoky Hill Library, part of the Arapahoe Library District in Colorado, and her Teen Advisory Board (TAB) have created their second annual book trailer. Last year they More...

I've got just the thing to help you forget about your taxes on April 15. Sign up now for the 'Librarians as Leaders of 21st Century Learning: Lessons Learned'; webcast, brought to you by 2009 More...

This month, my educator colleagues and I will begin looking at and evaluating online resources for elementary, middle, and high school students. When teaching students to access resources, we always discuss the value of validity, More...

Want to spur innovation? Turn every wall, no matter what kind of surface, into a whiteboard. Three recent Babson College graduates created a paint that dries to create a surface that does just that, and More...

Who knows? Maybe one of the recent winners of the United States Department of Education's (DOE) student video contest, 'I Am What I Learn.'; will turn out to be the next Steven Spielberg. Students ages More...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) loves giving away books. In fact, NEH has distributed more than 13,000 We the People 'bookshelves' to public and school libraries since 2003. Applying for this year's collection, More...

If you're ateacheror librarian who feels like a last guardian of the semicolon, there's a holiday tailored just for you. The sixth annual National Punctuation Day arrives September 24, a chance for anyone enamored with More...

Nearly half of all teens' daily activities are driven by technology, with listening to music ranking as number one, says a new report from the trade organization the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).Meanwhile, a quarter of More...

Not all is well with Dick and Jane. Although many people like to believe that American kids are doing well in school, more than half of white and Asian children can't read at grade level More...

The myth that girls aren't good at math must be put to rest-otherwise it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, says a new report.Many people still hold the belief that females intrinsically have less aptitude than More...

Cyberbullying is more common than you think, and teens aren't telling their parents about it, says a new study in the Journal of School Health.In fact, some 72 percent of teens who are frequent Internet More...

Here's some news for aspiring young adult librarians and media specialists: Drexel University Online, which offers an MLS via distance learning, has added those two new areas of concentration for those obtaining a master's in More...

Also in this article:Tasty ChoicesThe kids at Louisa May Alcott School were more into Flamin' Hot Cheetos and nachos than frisée and couscous. That is, until Greg Christian got to them.Exactly three years ago, the More...

After recognizing science students for the past nine years through its Young Scientist Challenge, Discovery Education decided it was time to award the folks who encouraged these kids in the first place-their teachers. 'As we More...

Google is challenging K–12 students to get their doodle on. Kids are being challenged to draw a new logo for Google's main page that answers the question, 'What if…?'; The hope is that students will More...

I have been honored this past year to serve on the committee for Teen Tech Week (TTW). Sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the March 2–8, 2008 celebration marks the second year More...

Teachers worldwide need the best information and communication tech training available so that students-and their countries-have a bright future. So says a new report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), released More...

Want teens to read news online? It's all in the way it's presented, according to a new study from Northwestern University's Media Management Center. The study, released January 8, demonstrates that teens rarely hit news More...

San Francisco K–12 students may soon benefit from a foundation set up to honor James Kim, a CNET editor who died from hypothermia after trying to rescue his wife Kati and their two young daughters More...

High school senior Andrea Drusch ticked off a lot of media specialists-not to mention her own school librarian-with her recent scathing editorial in The Dallas Morning News about all the things wrong with today's media More...

A group of troubled New York City schoolchildren now have their own library-and it comes to them each week on wheels.Equipped with 4,000 books, DVDs, computers, and a flat-screen TV, the 40-foot Wheels of Wonder More...

Amy Strunk, the librarian at Washington Elementary School in Allentown, PA, was recently forced to give up her media center to make way for a second-grade class. Pam Kopishke, the librarian at nearby Ritter Elementary, More...

Firedestroyed the Kaskel Library at Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY, early Saturday. Lost were 27,000 volumes from the existing two-floor library; 2,000 brand new volumes intended for a new lower school library; and computer and More...

Imagine NASA functioning as your classroom. That's just part of what the federal space agency's Explorer School program will offer to 50 schools over three years, as NASA helps to support science, technology, and mathematics More...

Children from low-income families don’t perform as well on IQ and achievement tests and have more behavioral problems than children from middle- and higher-income families, says a new study by the National Institutes of Health More...

If you're ever in Colorado and need a librarian after hours, you're in luck. An online service provided by the state's libraries (www.askcolorado.org) offers all residents with Internet access a live chat with a librarian More...

A father who lost his two young children and wife to a drunk motorist has donated 4,000 books to the Denver public schools.Frank Bingham recently made his first trip back to Lincoln Elementary School since More...

Three history organizations—ABC-CLIO, National History Day, and the History Channel—have joined together to offer a collection of resources for educators on the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, VA, to help students better understand the first successful More...

Conceived as a spirited chat, a new blog hosted by EdWeek.org is tackling the subject of public education by allowing two grand dames in the field, Diane Ravitch and Deborah Meier, the chance to argue More...

With everyone so obsessed with student achievement, parents are eager to get their kids enrolled in preschool. But a new study by the National Institute for Early Education Research says 12 states still don’t offer More...

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) wants educators to speak up about changes they'd want in the way technology is used in schools. But some practitioners are skeptical that their response to a new federal More...

Before you booktalk the Caldecott Honor–winner No, David! (Scholastic, 1998), you may want to consider this: many of today's top picture books still portray gender stereotypes, according to a new study by researchers David Anderson More...

If you're having trouble attracting teens to your school or public library, you're not alone. Kids have cell phones, e-mail, and iPods—not to mention clothes, dating, sports, and music—to keep them busy. And let's face More...

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