Police in Texas Learning Spanish | Learning Spanish Blog

"Police in Texas Learning Spanish Posted on Mar 03, 2008 in Learn Spanish Edit This Add This! • Email this • Add a comment • Subscribe to this feed • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! Sherman, Texas is going all out to get their patrol officers bilingual....

Study shows classroom laptops can improve reading skills

"Classroom laptops have positive effects on learning, according to a study which argues they help students learn everything from reading to independence. The results come from a study of classroom laptop use conducted by Berlin's Humboldt University. "It was especially...

At least 15 shot at Illinois university

SEE MAIN STORY AT NOWPUBLIC"A gunman has wounded at least 15 people when he opened fire with a shotgun in a university classroom outside Chicago, authorities said. It appears that the gunman had been killed. Campus police report that the immediate danger has passed,' the...

MIT Finally Completes Its OpenCourseWare Project.

"MIT this week announced an important digital achievement: the completion of its pioneering OpenCourseWare project. And everyone involved seems quite happy with being unsure about why exactly it's important. The achievement is digitizing all the classroom materials for all of...

Profs kick laptops out of the classroom

Some university professors have banned laptops from the classroom choosing instead to go back to the old pen and paper method of taking notes.  They have found, not surprisingly, that it results in fewer distractions and greater concentration by the students on the...

Gorilla surprise turns out to be a stripper in school

Well at least it was not a crazed maniac or gunman..."A stripper peeled off her clothes and whipped a 16-year-old student in front of his class, ensuring that the boy’s mother had achieved her aim of providing a birthday surprise he would never forget. But it was not the...

What's Said in Class (Doesn't) Stay in Class

If you ever find yourself in front of a roomful of kids and you're about to say something that begins with words to the effect of "Don't tell 'em I told you this, but...", please stop yourself from saying it. " Michael Williams, a 49-year-old former substitute teacher at...