DANBURY -- Rachel Saunders, a 29-year-old math teacher at Danbury High School, has been chosen for this year's LearnZillion "dream team." She is one of 200 educators from 41 states -- selected to from ...
I’m intrigued by any effort to reduce our perpetual re-invention of the wheel in education, so it’s with great interest that I’ve followed the progress of LearnZillion over the past few months.
(CNN) On any given Sunday night, your child’s teacher might face this problem: How do you come up with a lesson plan for 20 or more students for an entire week when all your students are learning at a ...
An education technology company that delivers free standards-based instructional lessons and videos to teachers that have been created by other teachers has identified its sixth "dream team." Earlier ...
One school day a few years ago, Eric Westendorf, then-principal at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Northwest Washington, realized he didn’t fully understand a basic middle-school math concept: ...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LearnZillion, the first digital curriculum and professional development platform that provides teachers with the tools they need to implement the Common Core State ...
Julie McGough has had a busy summer. The Azusa Unified teacher spent her break working on lesson plans — for classrooms across the nation. McGough was one of 123 teachers chosen from nearly 1,000 ...
Kai Ryssdal: For those who haven’t been in a modern public school classroom lately, there have been some changes since the days you had to whack the erasers together after class to clean them out.
In an effort to improve the quality of K-12 public education, schools across the country have begun to adopt the Common Core State Standards, which are designed to align the diversity of state ...
Eric Westendorf is CEO and co-founder of LearnZillion, an education venture that’s seeking to help teachers and parents rethink curriculum. Today, LearnZillion’s website has 950,000 registered teacher ...
LEARNZILLION: Washington, DC-based LearnZillion said today that it has raised $13 million from 13 investors including DCM Ventures and Owl Ventures for its open education resources, namely Common Core ...