High School Students Getting Ready for College
This month, more than 3.5 million high school students across the United States will take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), an important step on the road to college readiness. Tests will be administered at participating high schools…
A School with a Difference in Quake-Hit Haiti
Recently, Honeywell chairman and CEO Dave Cote and Honeywell Hometown Solutions president Tom Buckmaster joined students, parents, teachers, school administrators and community leaders to open Ecole Nationale Jacob Martin Henriquez, a new public school in the hard hit city of…
Educating You about Residential Fire Prevention
In recognition of Fire Prevention Week (October 9-15), First Alert is offering its Facebook fans the chance to “escape” to the place where it all began – Chicago, home to First Alert and site of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire,…
TI-Nspire to Inspire Tech Education in India
With an array of digital teaching tools, global semiconductor company Texas Instruments (TI) is all set to transform the science and technology education in Indian schools. Among its forays in the education market, TI joined hands with a local education…
How 3D Lessons Improve Student Learning
A research compares the difference in comprehension, information retention and overall behaviour between students learning via traditional 2D methods versus learning via 3D projection. It was conducted in classrooms across seven European countries. Texas Instruments (TI) DLP Products presents the…
Teens and STDs: What Parents Need to Know
Chlamydia. HPV. Herpes. Gonorrhea. They’re not easy topics to bring up with your teen, but sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates are rising among adolescents. Nearly half of all new STD cases are in young people between the ages of 15…
Scholastic Kid Reporters Interview President Obama
The Scholastic News Kids Press Corps announced Tuesday that two of its Kid Reporters, ten-year-old Topanga Sena of Orlando, Florida, and eleven-year-old Jacob Schroeder of Albuquerque, New Mexico, conducted an exclusive interview with President Barack Obama at the White House…
LG Mobile Documentary Thumbs on Teen Texting
LG Mobile has announced the upcoming release of “Thumbs,” the new texting documentary that chronicles the race to LG’s 2010 National Texting Championship. In celebration of the documentary’s television debut, LG treated audiences in New York and Los Angeles to…
























