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D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
D-Lib December 2007 Liu & Ward |
Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum Access Excellence is the National Health Museum's award-winning educational Web site, providing biology and health teachers with online access to scientific information and linkages to their colleagues and members of the life science professions. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Use of technology by teachers... Energy efficient schools... Awards... Industry news... |
T.H.E. Journal May 2008 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships 'Speak up' reveals digital disconnect... Discovery, 3M will crown top student scientist... Atomic Learning partners with Creative Learning Systems... Vernier offers summer workshop... Promethean hires new CMO... etc. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 |
Louisa Stark: The Internet Age To engage children and teenagers in science, it helps to entertain. Louisa Stark, director of the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, uses tools that students have already mastered, such as the internet. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 Douglas Kellner |
The Changing Classroom: Challenges for Teachers The integration of technology in classrooms has obligated teachers to develop new teaching strategies to enhance learning across the curriculum. |
CRM December 2012 Marshall Lager |
Smarten Up Arm graduates with skills that matter. Studentforce is an extremely clever system built on the Force platform. It is nothing less than a complete educational management system. |
Information Today November 11, 2014 |
World Library of Science Aims to Open Science to All Students This free, online education resource is designed to give students around the world equal access to the latest science information. |
AskMen.com May 10, 2014 Marilee Nugent |
This Is Why School Lunch Programs Are An Epic Fail Clearly, nutrition by the numbers doesn't work. Not when it's a set of rules imposed on contract cafeteria food providers trained in the preparation of pre-fab processed meals. |
T.H.E. Journal November 5, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
Information Today August 4, 2015 |
The USDA and Microsoft Present a Data-Centric Food Resiliency Challenge The challenge will explore how climate change will impact the U.S.'s food supply and how the country can achieve better food resiliency. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush |
Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development. |
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers. |
Fast Company Peg Tyre |
The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies In Education Some companies on the list include DonorsChoose.org, Inkling, and Kaplan. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter April 2001 Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI While premium ice creams like Haagen-Dazs are "85% fat-free," in the 1990s the FDA banned "fat-free" claims on foods that aren't low in fat. But under pressure from the meat industry, the USDA now wants to allow similar claims like "85% lean" on labels for fatty ground beef... |
D-Lib February 2009 Marcia A. Mardis |
Classroom Information Needs: Search Analysis from a Digital Library for Educators All too often, digital library developers create collections of resources in the absence of rigorous examinations of educator and learner needs. |
Food Processing June 2005 John L. Stanton |
Market View: The first pyramid never worked Rather than admit failure, the government acts as if the guidelines have been working and gives us more of the same. Perhaps its up to the food and beverage industry to find new, creative solutions to America's disastrous diet. |
Food Engineering February 8, 2006 |
Food Safety Remains Top Priority at USDA The US Department of Agriculture continues to collaborate with states and private industry to protect the nation's food supply from terrorist threats. Currently the agency is in the midst of conducting five critical food defense exercises this year. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 Chris Rother |
Evaluating Technology's Role in the Classroom Teachers are using computers more than ever before for everything from instruction to handling administrative chores and communicating with parents. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Dan Ferber |
Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Resistance is Futile Even as technology use grows embedded in education, some teachers still prefer the old ways. |
InternetNews April 7, 2009 David Needle |
Teachers Driving Web 2.0 Adoption? A new survey indicates teachers are leading the charge to get more Web 2.0 services into the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students. |
Information Today May 5, 2015 |
Food and Nutrition Journal Now Published by SAGE SAGE Publications will take over publication of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal that was previously the official publication of the International Nutrition Foundation. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 John K. Waters |
The Kids Are All Right A major study on the impact of digital technologies on learning argues that students' online pursuits are productive and edifying, and should be exploited by teachers for educational gain. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 |
Science Education Outreach Targets Students In Rural Schools Many of HHMI's science education grantees are focusing their outreach efforts on teachers and students from rural schools. Because long-distance travel is often out of the question, they are sending curricula and materials to rural teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2006 Randy Yerrick |
Globalizing Education One Podcast at a Time Digital media has emerged as a tool of choice for offering multimodal instruction, integrating content and pedagogy, reaching diverse learners, and complementing science instruction for today's inclusive classrooms. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 Hofer, Chamberlin & Scot |
Fulfilling the Need for a Technology Integration Specialist A look at the current role of a school-based technology coordinator. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 James J. Green |
Numerology: Kids Ain't Cheap The latest Department of Agriculture child-rearing study reports that a two-parent, middle-income family can expect to spend $221,190 to raise a child born in 2008. |
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Putting The New Food Pyramid To Work Here's how to use the USDA's food guidelines to cook up a beneficial diet. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Free At Last By creating a user-generated, ever-growing library of original digital content, an Arizona school district has liberated its teachers from the restraints of a textbook-driven curriculum model. |
Job Journal April 20, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: School Teacher Our children are the future, and school teachers are entrusted with the responsibility of educating and inspiring them. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
The 4-1-1 on District 219 This year's Charp Award winner is honored at NECC for its unique and compelling use of technology, particularly in support of teachers. |
Prepared Foods July 22, 2007 Mark Hostetler |
Promoting Safe and Nutritious Congress, the FDA and USDA have created a changing regulatory environment for food marketers. |
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 |
Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook. |
Food Engineering April 30, 2009 |
Food safety collaboration called for at all levels of government Recent salmonella outbreaks involving peanut butter and fresh produce underscore the need to repair gaps in state and local food safety programs and integrate them better with federal food safety efforts |
Nutra Solutions June 1, 2005 |
Pyramid Power Designed to help challenge the country's growing obesity epidemic, the USDA's MyPyramid incorporates recommendations from the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2012 Laurence Lannom |
Science, Publishing, and Digital Libraries The steady and sometimes overwhelming increase in the output of science, both in publications and especially in data, is a great challenge and a great opportunity. |
Fast Company Evie Nagy |
Tiger Moms, Take Note: How Science Can Make You A Better Parent Fast Company spoke with New York University sociologist Dalton Conley about the principles in his new book on parentology, the importance of improvisation, and what parents can do to learn how to not freak out. |
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 9, 2012 Michael Blanding |
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals? Government agencies can be "captured" by the very companies or industries they regulate. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Up Close and Virtual By adding web-based offerings to traditional in-person sessions, school districts can continue to provide support to teachers when face-to-face visits aren't possible. |
Food Engineering July 6, 2009 |
USDA urged to reverse Bush-era gag rule preventing criticism of soda Bush-era rules at USDA prohibit states from using federal nutrition education funds for discouraging soda consumption, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is urging Secretary Tom Vilsack to reverse them. |
Information Today August 19, 2014 |
Google Debuts Paperless Classroom Feature Google's Classroom launched and is available to users of Google Apps for Education, a free suite of productivity tools for teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf |
Using Technology to Improve Achievement: Making Data Relevant New information systems are helping states and districts individualize instruction and boost student learning. |