Jay Stratte Plasman receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences. Shaun M. Dougherty does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

Computer Learning Centers suspended classes at its 25 campuses on Monday, after the company took successive hits from the U.S. Education Department and a lender that left it without enough money to ...

Out of cash and faced with mounting debt, Computer Learning Centers filed Thursday for federal bankruptcy protection to liquidate its assets. The troubled company also appealed the U.S. Department of ...

Does a child really need a human teacher in order to learn? Most experts will tell you yes, definitely, that teachers make learning easier and give it direction and context. They push and encourage.

One classroom with a focus on story time and another on computer learning. Two classrooms intended for students Kindergarten through second grade - one with a focus on "storytime" and the other ...

Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. His father, who wrote software for a local bank, instilled in him an interest in ...

Computers have beaten humans at chess and “Jeopardy!,” and now they can master old Atari games such as “Space Invaders” or “Breakout” without knowing anything about their rules or strategies. Playing ...

A teacher in Virginia uses a micro-controller to connect a computer to a keyboard, allowing kindergarten students to play musical notes that are triggered when they high-five their classmates. In ...