Due to popular demand and in celebration of Throwback Thursdays, enjoy this interview with librarian Tiffany Whitehead from a recording produced during this year’s National Library Month.

Faculty Members at 14 State Universities in Pennsylvania Go on Strike

Meghan Keates | Greater New York

Germany proves tuition-free college is not a silver bullet for America’s education woes

If you were to take your eyes off of your book for one minute, you’d notice what has happened around you. Technology is advancing at warp speed; it’s everywhere and owned by everyone. But are establishments that provide books to the public able to survive? The answer is yes. The librarian’s value has not diminished with the forthcoming of the digital age. Libraries are adapting to these changing times, and becoming thought leaders in utilizing technology for research purposes.

“Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

Area high schools are trying to get their students ready for the next step in their lives.

Music education beginning to be embedded in early education

09/30/2016 | Washington, DC | Herald Chronicle U.S. Department of Education awards $245 million to support high-quality public charter schools Herald Chronicle September 28, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Education announced today new grants totaling approximately $245 million under its Charter Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation. Today’s grants are being awarded to state educational agencies and charter management organizations. The CSP supports the creation of high-quality public charter schools by providing start-up funds for new charter schools, strengthening accountability for charter school performance, sharing leading practices that enable school success, and ultimately, improving educational outcomes for students from high-need communities. The CSP has invested over $3 billion since the program’s inception in 1995 to states and charter school developers. In the past decade, CSP investments have enabled the launch of over 2,500 charter schools, serving approximately one million …

09/22/2016 | Houston, TX | Houston Chronicle

Alex Terego | Author THE REAL BLAME IS WITH THE LAWMAKERS AND BUREAUCRATS. A HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Good intentions, poor leadership, and unforeseen consequences have brought us over the past few decades to this Crisis In Education.  1965.  The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed as a part of President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty. And it has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by the US Congress.

09/21/16 | Washington, DC | The Washington Post

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (October 20, 2016) Choosito! Inc., curator of open Web content for learning and National Science Foundation Business Innovation Award winner, and Quick Key, maker of mobile assessment software, have partnered to offer students personalized learning content based on quizzes and other data. Choosito! wants to better understand the needs of students who search its libraries of open Web content. Choosito! curates its libraries using proprietary machine learning and text analysis, and then delivers that content directly to students based on reading level, subject matter, and other criteria. Quick Key, whose 40,000 worldwide teacher users have taught millions of students using its mobile formative assessment platform, wants to use data from question items and quiz results to personalize students’ learning experiences. “This partnership will help students reach their learning goals by giving them access to resources appropriate to their reading level, matched to the relevant subject matter, and curated …

“Higher education is an incredibly important alternative to more negative outcomes: crime, radicalization, and early marriage for young women. Education can provide a pathway to integration within the country and durable solutions for Turkey and Syria.”

In this episode, Lee Banville, Editor at Games and Learning, discusses the evolving role of women in game-based learning.