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Fresh & Easy Help Comes for Schools

Fresh & Easy Help Comes for Schools

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market announced Wednesday that it is giving more than $2.1 million to local schools through its fifth-annual Shop for Schools program. Over 2,700 schools in Arizona, California and Nevada participated in the fundraising program, which ran from September 12th to December 31st. Fresh & Easy also…
Hatch Early Learning Tech for At-Risk Students

Hatch Early Learning Tech for At-Risk Students

At-risk children in three Chicagoland area schools use advanced education technology from Hatch Early Learning in their pre-Kindergarten classrooms as part of iStartSmart Mobile tablet pilot programs. Administrators monitor teacher-student interactions and improvements in classroom and school performance, while teachers use the progress monitoring system to understand each child’s skill…
App to Empower Parents with Digital Report Card

App to Empower Parents with Digital Report Card

Ruckus Media Group, a children’s digital media company, has announced the release of the Ruckus Reader, a learning program for the iPad featuring digital storybooks that provides parents with personalized feedback on their child’s reading experience. It is designed to help young children practice reading skills and develop a habit…
Curious George at the Zoo for Preschoolers

Curious George at the Zoo for Preschoolers

Global education company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) released Thursday Curious George at the Zoo, a learning app for preschool-aged children, designed to provide a fun, interactive experience while building the skills important for long-term success. Developed in line with the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework, the app…
Educational Apps for Low-Income Areas

Educational Apps for Low-Income Areas

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) are providing free educational apps to Head Start centers, local PBS stations, and other organizations in underserved communities. The apps will be downloaded onto devices that families have access to in local Head Start centers and other community…
See the Universe with Webb Space Telescope

See the Universe with Webb Space Telescope

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md. will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Sunday, March 18 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. EDT. It's a free afternoon for children of all ages and their families with a look at how NASA's most powerful space telescope will look…
IBM Playbook to Prepare Students for Tech Jobs

IBM Playbook to Prepare Students for Tech Jobs

Tech major IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released a new playbook designed to outline how to develop an innovative grades 9-14 school that connects education to economic development and good-paying jobs. In conjunction with the release of the playbook, IBM also unveiled plans to partner with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and…