NYC Big Apps Challenge named Sage: Pre K and Elementary School Search the best education app this year. It is an easy way to find school data for your zoned and nearby schools. Check out this video for more info about how it works.

This weekend the New York Times published an article in their magazine stating that the average age of puberty for white girls is 9.96 (almost 10 years old) and for black girls is even younger: 8.87 (less than 9 years old!). I wish that I could say that I was shocked by these figures, but as a former 3rd grade teachers in a predominantly black community I had noticed the same thing happening in my classroom.

An interesting email from Thirteen / WNET Kids discussing the technology gap reached LinkEducation today. Given that it offers some excellent resources for closing that gap, we wanted to pass it on to you unimpeded. Read the synopsis below and be sure to click through for details about ways to gain access to this educational content: