PHOTOS: Friends Learn Blackjack From The Pros – November 14, 2011
Sue Bruce - Lexington Patch
LEF's "Real Deal" auction item is amazing insight with members of "Bringing Down the House" team of card-counting college students who took Vegas by storm.

Lexington Education Foundation awards $342,101 in grants – September 20, 2011
Wicked Local - Lexington
Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) has awarded $342,101 in grants to support new technology and innovative instruction at Lexington Public Schools for 2011-2012. LEF has united private donations with retail and corporate sponsorships to offer $280,233 in program grants, $29,368 in summer fellowships, and $32,500 in school community grants.

Students Studying for 300th – September 16, 2011
Patrick Ball - Lexington PATCH
With the towns tercentennial coming soon, sudents in the Lexington Public Schools have begun studying "Lexington, Then and Now," with support from the Lexington Education Foundation.

LEF announces $342,101 in Grants for 2011-2012 – September 9, 2011
Patrick Ball - Lexington PATCH
Lexington Education Foundation grants support interactive whiteboads, a weather monitoring system, Elmo Document Cameras and social studies mini-units connecting with Lexington's 300th birthday.

Lexington Education Foundation awards $342,101 in grants – September 8, 2011
Brock Parker - Boston.com - your town
The Lexington Education Foundation has awarded $342,101 in grants to support local schools during the 2011-2012 school year.
The amount of grant money, funded through private donations as well as retail and corporate sponsorships, represents an 11-percent increase...

Kids Point, Click and Learn – April 25, 2011
Elena Murphy - Colonial Times
This year, teachers at Bridge and Fiske elementary schools have a small but powerful tool in their classrooms to help the growing numbers of students who attend but have little or no experience speaking English.

Shire Donates $6,500 To Lexington Education Foundation – March 22, 2011
Wicked Local - Lexington Minuteman
Shire Human Genetic Therapies of Lexington recently donated $6,500 to the Lexington Education Foundation's Annual Fund Campaign.

Grant Helping Integrate Hands-On Enginering at Lexington High – March, 2011
Brock Parker - Boston.com - your town
Lexington – A grant provided by the Lexington Education Foundation is helping freshmen at Lexington High School build scaled down versions of renewable energy devices as part of a new hands-on engineering program.

English Language Arts in Lexington Public Schools– January, 2011
Colonial Times
Lexington – Reading, Writing and Arithmatic are the traditional core of education; in our media rich, technology powered world, the language arts - reading, writing and critical thinking - have a central role in the curriculum.

Lexington Education Foundation awards grants to schools– December 14, 2010
Lexington Minuteman
Lexington –The Lexington Education Foundation announces the awarding of its 2010-2011 School Community Grants, totaling $32,500, to all nine Lexington Public Schools.

Teams Put Knowledge to the Test at LEF Trivia Bee– November 12, 2010
By Martha Crosier Wood - Lexington Minuteman
Lexington — Cary Hall was buzzing with creativity, humor, and above all, trivia, as the Lexington Education Foundation hosted its annual Trivia Bee last week.

Cambridge Trust donates $10K to Lexington Education Foundation– November 10, 2010
Lexington Minuteman
Lexington — The Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) recognizes Cambridge Trust Company as a Corporate Innovation and Technology Partner. Through their $10,000 multi-year donation, Cambridge Trust is helping LEF fund grants that bring innovative instruction and new technology into the classroom to improve student learning in the Lexington Public Schools.

Lexington Education Foundation To Hold Trivia Bee– November 9, 2010
Lexington Minuteman
Lexington — Now in its 15th year, the Lexington Education Foundation's (LEF) Trivia Bee will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. at Cary Hall. Admission is free and there's no school the next day for Veterans Day.

Lexington Education Foundation doles out school grants – October 1, 2010
By Michael Phillis/Staff Writer/Lexington Minuteman
Lexington – The Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) awarded more than $300,000 grants and fellowships to the Lexington Public Schools for the 2010-2011 school year to fund curriculum projects and professional development.

iPods Enhance Foreign Language Lessons For Middle Schoolers – August 26, 2010
Lexington Education Foundation grant helps language department buy iPods to use as a learning tool.
By Joanna Tzouvelis/Writer for Lexington Patch/lexington.patch.com
Jonas Clarke Middle School students were pleasantly surprised last year when their Spanish teacher announced they would be using the iPod Touch in their classroom.

A conversation with Deb Jackson, new executive director of Lexington Education Foundation – June 29, 2010
Boston.com, Your Town
Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) recently named Deborah Jackson to the executive director post.  The organization, established in 1989, is an independent charity that funds grant proposals submitted by Lexington educators.

Lapides: Lexington’s 21st-century language lab – June 10, 2010
By Deb Lapides/Special to the Lexington Minuteman
It is 8:10 a.m. in a seventh-grade Spanish class at Clarke Middle School — and not a single student is dozing or bleary-eyed. Lively banter in Spanish, laughter, and smiles surround teacher Catherine Brooks. The reason? Today’s class uses iPods with an attached microphone smaller than a thumbnail...
Across town at Diamond Middle School, a student in Christine Goulet’s energized sixth-grade French class uses a stylus to write on an ActivBoard mounted in front of the class...

Lexington Education Foundation launches STAR campaign – June 02, 2010
Lexington Minuteman
Lexington—The Lexington Education Foundation’s (LEF) Staff Teacher Appreciation Recognition (STAR) campaign is underway.

LEF to host ‘Celebration of Education’ – Mar 25, 2010
By Emily Costello/Staff Writer of Lexington Minuteman
Lexington — The Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) will hold its largest annual fundraiser, A Celebration of Education, on Saturday, March 27, 6:30 p.m. to midnight, at the Westin Waltham-Boston in Waltham.

LEF to hold gala fundraiser—March 09, 2010
Lexington Minuteman
Lexington — A silent auction and music by classic rock band French Lick will contribute to the festivities of Lexington Education Foundation’s (LEF) largest annual fundraiser...

Diamond Social Studies, Lexington Education Foundation bring History to the Future –
February 25, 2010
Lexington Minuteman
After receiving a generous grant from the Lexington Education Foundation in the summer of 2009, the Diamond Social Studies Department outfitted every classroom with Mimio Interactive Whiteboard Systems...

Bridging the Gap: 21st Century Technology Helps Special Educators Meet the Unique Learning Needs of their Students – February 11, 2010
By Cheryl Meadow/Special to the Minuteman
We all know that electronic media takes up a huge amount of kids' leisure time, but new technologies have also led to a sea change in the way that schools can deliver classroom instruction-to mainstream students and those with diverse learning needs.