ProfEssays, a US-based custom essay writing service (www.professays.com), proposes its clients to use company's renewed Customer Support Service. Read »

Humble Independent School District has implemented a new parent notification service. This service, called Your Schools Insider, allows the district to send email, phone and SMS/text messages to parents based on their school relationships, as well allow parents and community members to sign-up online for various interest groups and receive emails about programs around the district. The new service is based on EZCommunicator from Relatrix Corporation. EZCommunicator is a hosted, web-based, system for the K12 education market. Read »

New radio channel promotes the importance of play in early childhood. Read »

For the past 30 years obesity in England has been increasing and the British Government has this week published Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives, a cross-government strategy for halting the increase in obesity and supporting the creation of a healthy society. The new THRASS SING-A-LONG Family Reading Project, to be launched next week, uses 44 songs to help teach children to read and encourages parents and teachers to move and dance with children. It has the potential to make a significant contribution to meeting the aims of this new strategy by helping children to develop a healthy, active life-style. Read »

This project will combine the use of the Hewlett-Packard iPAQ 2790 including the ISS Cool Conversations Quiz & Traveling-Tutor™ (CCQ) software as a key component in the Honey Project's young entrepreneur development project. This project provides a multi-purpose platform for young teems enabling "Business and Learning" on-the-move with access to advanced training materials designed to help them become successful business professionals while supplementing their academic training, including an extensive reading program such as a wide range of e-books. CCQ is a complete study, testing, assessment, content development and reporting application that gives the HP handheld devices the ability to talk to users. This system is being promoted nationally by Microsoft, HP and ISS and was the featured Microsoft Mobility Solution for Education at this year's National Education Computing Conference in Atlanta. Read »

Swimmers braving the waters of the North Pole, sea birds coming back from extinction in Bermuda and eco-savvy fishermen in Papua New Guinea are just a few of the stars gracing the giant screen when the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival (SFOFF) 2008 (www.oceanfilmfest.org) returns to the Cowell Theatre at Fort Mason Center Jan. 31 - Feb. 3, 2008. Read »

The THRASS SING-A-LONG Family Reading Project, due to be launched at the end of the month, already looks set to be an exceptional project with the potential to make a major impact on teaching children literacy skills, while at the same time helping to make singing, with all its associated benefits, part of their daily lives. And this comes as no surprise when one learns what an exceptional individual Janine Plunkett, who wrote the songs really is. Janine wrote all the songs with their memorable tunes and wonderful imaginative titles, while still undergoing treatment for cancer. Read »

Contest reveals freedom, flexibility and independence as reasons to choose homeschooling. Read »

Nicthus.com sets their sites on redefining perceptions on Christian lifestyle and defeating stereotypes with positive, thoughtful, cool, and edgy designs. By creating a brand that's fun and not stuffy or stiff, Nicthus aims to bridge the gap between secular and Christian apparel. Read »

The life and times of Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, two of America's most enduring heroes of freedom, come alive for children in Heroes of Freedom, a new DVD series about people of courage who changed America. The initial title in the series - "The Stories of Harriet Tubman & Rosa Parks," arrives in stores February 5, 2008 just in time for Black History Month. Read »