Patricia Hawke

K-12 Schools and Microsoft

North Carolina is the first of the U.S. states to offer Microsoft certification and training courses in every high school. The certifications that the students have the opportunity of achieving are a Microsoft Office Specialist or a Microsoft Certified Pr... Read >

K-12 Schools Fight Bullies

In Massachusetts, almost ninety-nine percent of their schools districts have filed bullying-prevention policies with the state. Schools were supposed to comply with writing out a plan to stop bullying and prevents it and what consequences the school will ... Read >

iPads Make it to K-12 Schools

The New York City Public Schools ordered more than two thousand iPads for a total cost of 1.3 million for school districts such as Long Island and the Bronx. Teachers all over the country are finding so many uses for the applications that apple offers on ... Read >

Teacher Bonuses and Test Scores in K-12 Schools

It’s always been a struggle on how to improve students test score and grades and how to effectively create incentives for teachers to really work and try their best to help the students. You would think, this is their job, shouldn’t they already want to h... Read >

Kineo, an Educational Technology

At the Florida Educational Technology Conference a new educational device was showcased, the Kineo. This device’s main objective is for school use. It is run off the operating system, Android, which was created by Google. A lot of their technology mirrors... Read >

Quality Teachers in Schools

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have granted $290 Million to four districts to improve the quality of the teachers. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has always been keen to helping the education system and trying to improve it. This is the bigg... Read >

Mobile Learning in K-12 Schools

At Paradise Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Arizona they are beginning to branch into mobile learning. Called twenty-first century learning, using mobile technology in the classroom has created concerns for the teachers, as they fear the studen... Read >

Cell Phone Jammers in Schools

In Spokane, Washington, a school decided to install a cell phone jammer into the schools area to prevent students from texting or calling during class. The school has the cell phone jammer running for about a week until the FCC declared the jammer illegal... Read >

Discrimination in Schools -- Math and Science Teachers Underpaid

The Seattle Post in Washington reports that science and math teachers are paid less than teachers of other subjects. Nineteen out of thirty Washington school districts pay math and science teachers less than high school instructors of other subjects. When... Read >

Technology in the Classrooms of K-12 Schools

In the public schools in Vancouver, Washington they are integrating a lot of technology into the K-12 classrooms. They began to realize students pay attention and get more education from technology based lessons and projects that the teachers are creating... Read >

Age Assigned Versus Ability Assigned Classrooms

In Denver, Colorado, the Denver-area district is trying a new way of placing students in grades. The old way of spending time in classrooms doing the same work as the other students and moving up a grade, as the kids get older is changing. They are now tr... Read >

Video Surveillance in K-12 Schools

Skyline School in Portland, Oregon, has placed cameras in the schools to monitor and protect its students. Last June, a seven year old, disappeared from their school and thanks to a great donation, the school was able to install these cameras to protect o... Read >

Computer Science To Become a Requirement in Pennsylvania Schools

In Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia School Board asked last year to make Computer Science classes a requirement, and they did. The problem In the United States is that lees than sixty five percent of K-12 schools offer a Computer Science class in the introd... Read >

Ohio Schools Competing for a Share in $3.4 Billion

The United States Department of Education has announced a $3.4 Billion dollar incentive for schools across the nation. The state of Ohio is one of the finalist competing for this grant. The schools need to come up with ways to reform their school and crea... Read >

Virginia Schools Look at Results When Separating Boys and Girls in the Classroom

Having separation between boys and girls in the past has always been a way many private schools run their classrooms. Motivation for this might be for religious or moral reasons, or just because they don’t want boys and girls being distracted by the oppos... Read >