The Obama administration will spend at least $3.5 billion to push local officials around the country to close failing schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals, and applications for the money are now available to states. Education...

"Our research suggests a strong correlation between kids using technology and wider patterns of reading and writing," Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, told BBC News. "Engagement with online technology drives their enthusiasm...

Social networking soon could be used to help form a virtual community of campus educators charged with creating a national certification for teachers of remedial college courses, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced $12.9 million in...

Google's Wave platform has begun to get some serious traction in the tech world. Touted as "email for the 21st century" Google has endeavoured to change the way we look at communications. iIt's not enough that they own a huge slice of the global email...

Thanks to its crack coverage of the manhunt for a suspected cop killer, The Seattle Times web site saw a record 3.3 million page views on Monday. A big part of that traffic was a result of using Twitter to push out information and draw in more...