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Teachers: 10 websites for your summer 2015 toolkit
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest ... -
Bloomz Introduces its Award-Winning Free App to Connect Teachers and Parents
The new app engages today’s mobile and social-media-savvy parents with a single solution to all classroom communication needs (AUSTIN, TX) February 2, 2016 —At the TCEA ... -
Helping Adult ELLs Achieve the American Dream
Schools, non-profits, and smartphone apps provide technology-based resources to serve the growing population of adults learning English. By Vinod Lobo With a dramatic increase ... -
myON and Indiana Department of Education Partner to Improve Migrant Students’ Reading and Writing Skills
Access to thousands of digital books in myON’s literacy environment has helped improve reading achievement among Indiana’s migrant student population (MINNEAPOLIS, MN) October 11, ... -
Twitter Accusations Strain HBCUs Relationship
In a disturbing string of tweets posted to Twitter last week, an anonymous student at all-women’s Spelman College stated that she was gang raped ... -
2 Events of 2015 that Illustrate the Severity of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Sadly, over half of young black men who attend urban high schools do not earn a diploma. Of the dropouts, nearly 60 percent will ... -
Grading Obama on NCLB reform
Several weeks ago, I discussed President Obama’s education record in my introduction to education class. In particular, we talked about P-20 education, which begins ... -
Tom Joyner to give full scholarship to future HBCU student
Known for his zeal for supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities, host of the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show” Tom Joyner plans to ... -
Minnesota governor wants universal pre-K, but does it work?
To think that a state with a budget surplus of nearly $2 billion is on the brink of a government shutdown is ludicrous. That ... -
Research Shows That 1:1, Teacher-Led Classrooms Increase Student Engagement
Today’s technology can naturally fit with the nature of the classroom, help with collaboration and sharing, and assist peer review. By Bradley Heilman Humans ...