Kid’s biz: ILifte teaches entrepreneurship to elementary schoolers

A pilot program in Washington, D.C., teaches kids how to apply their creativity to the real world, take risks, and follow their passion.

Google drops Chromebooks down to $99 or less (for education)

Forget Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Google just announced perhaps the best sale of the entire Christmas season, at least as far as electronics and computers are concerned.

Kids (and adults) will have fun learning math with Hungry Fish for iPad

Video games for the iPad are an unlikely ally in the fight to help America’s students close the achievement gap in math. But that’s just what startup Motion Math has in mind.

Motion Math is a San Francisco game design …

Edmodo wants to be the cloud leader in EdTech, raises $15M more

Education technology is a red-hot market, and both startups and investors are taking note.

Edmodo, a social network for education, stands poised to benefit tremendously from the great shifts taking place in educational delivery. The company announced today that it …

Kid studies Java as a second language; should more do so?

At the Park School just outside of Baltimore, Maryland, 8th grader Chance Williams was having a lot of trouble in Spanish.

At one point, Chance’s father, Jeff, found himself sitting in the principal’s office with the Spanish teacher when a …