Photo credit: Agência Brasilby Julie RuvoloBrazilian startup Descomplica (“Uncomplicate”) has raised an $8 million Series B to build an education entertainment company that the company hopes could actually change the future of education in Brazil. Read the rest of the story at Tech Crunch.

by Nicholas FandosARLINGTON, Va. — This is not your typical summer sleepaway camp.Bonfires and archery? Try Insecure Direct Object References and A1-Injections.The dozen or so teenagers staring at computers in a Marymount University classroom here on a recent day were learning — thanks to a new National Security Agency cybersecurity program that reaches down into the ranks of American high school and middle school students — the entry-level art of cracking encrypted passwords.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.

Photo credit: Tim Evansonby Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — More than a decade after No Child Left Behind established a stronger federal role in public education, the Senate on Thursday approved a rewrite of the much-criticized education law that would return much of that power to the states.Read the rest of the story at U.S. News and World Report.

Photo credit: U.S. Department of Agricultureby Stephen E. Bradforth, Emily R. Miller, William R. Dichtel, Adam K. Leibovich, Andrew L. Feig, James D. Martin, Karen S. Bjorkman, Zachary D. Schultz & Tobin L. SmithIt is time to use evidence-based teaching practices at all levels by providing incentives and effective evaluations, urge Stephen E. Bradforth, Emily R. Miller and colleagues.Read the rest of the story at Nature. 

Proposed by Howard Gardner in 1983, the theory of multiple intelligences has revolutionized how we understand intelligence. Learn more about the research behind his theory. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: MARCH 8, 2013 | UPDATED: APRIL 9, 2015Read the rest of the story at Edutopia.

by Laura IsenseeThis summer there’s been an intense debate surrounding the Confederate flag and the legacy of slavery in this country.In Texas that debate revolves around new textbooks that 5 million students will use when the school year begins next month.The question is, are students getting a full and accurate picture of the past? Read the rest of the story at NPR.org.

by Jon GrinspanEACH summer, when school ends, education mostly stops short, too. But it hasn’t always been that way. For the striving youths of 19th-century America, learning was often a self-driven, year-round process. Devouring books by candlelight and debating issues by bonfire, the young men and women of the so-called “go-ahead generation” worked to educate themselves into a better life.Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.

Photo Credit: Garry Knightby Mara Rose WilliamsSen. Tim Kaine of Virginia has the grim sexual abuse numbers on his website:Nearly 300,000 victims of rape and sexual assault a year. Young women experiencing the highest rates of violence from their boyfriends.Read the rest of the story at The Kansas City Star.

by Stephanie GleasonStudents of the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges Inc. who have defaulted on loan payments to the Education Department will get a few months’ reprieve, according to court documents filed Friday.Read the rest of the story at The Wall Street Journal.

 by Claudio SanchezStandardized tests tied to the Common Core are under fire in lots of places for lots of reasons. But who makes them and how they’re scored is a mystery. Read and hear the rest of the story at NPR.org.

by Jennifer Steinhauer and Motoko RichWASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved to substantially scale back the federal government’s role in education, particularly the use of high-stakes standardized testing to punish schools, in the first significant proposed revisions since the No Child Left Behind law was passed 14 years ago.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.

Photo Credit: Max Klingensmithby Teresa WatanabeWhen Viviana Martin Del Campo walked into her sixth-period geometry class at Venice High School in March, she saw a group of boys huddled over a cellphone, laughing. The target of their attention turned out to be a sexually explicit photo of two classmates.Read the rest of the story at the L.A. Times.

Photo Credit: Constitutionality and Reliability of Tamilnadu Councilby Robert GebelhoffDon’t use drugs, stay in school — kids hear this kind of advice all the time. What they don’t hear is that not having a good education could be just as dangerous to their health as smoking. Read the rest of the story at The Washington Post.

Photo Credit: Jeremy MikkolaThe Associated PressBOSTON – It took a 15-year-old high school student from Virginia to catch a math error at Boston’s venerable Museum of Science.Read the rest of the story at CBS News.

Photo Credit: Chris Moncusby Kate N. GrossmanChicago has seen a double-digit increase in the percentage of kids graduating from high school. Skeptics say educators and kids are manipulating the numbers—but does that even matter?Read the rest of the story at The Atlantic.