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Judge: Copyright owners must consider ‘fair use’
A federal judge on Aug. 20 gave more weight to the concept of "fair use" when he threw a lifeline to a Pennsylvania mother's lawsuit against Universal Music, CNET reports.…
Caution to teens: Don’t send those racy cell videos
High school senior Andy Dougherty sent a 17-year-old buddy a 10-second cell phone video that showed Dougherty with his pants down, fooling around with his teenage girlfriend--and the prosecutor in…
How not to teach about internet safety
Students and parents at Colorado's Windsor High School are outraged after a Wyoming police officer doing a presentation on internet safety scrutinized individual students' MySpace pages, calling the students' pictures…
Australian school takes modern approach to student exams
Not long ago it would have been called cheating, but students at a Sydney girls' school are now being encouraged to take their phones, laptops, and MP3 players into exams…
Intel chairman: Teachers are key to promoting global tech use
Technology plays a big role in economic development, but Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says more teachers are needed to educate users on its usage, especially in emerging economies, PC World…
Comcast to throttle some customers’ web speeds
Comcast plans to reduce internet service to customers it deems to be using too much bandwidth, a move that comes on the heels of federal regulators ruling that the internet…
Algebra requirement highlights teacher shortage
Now that California has mandated Algebra 1 for all eighth-graders within three years, a deeply entrenched problem has become even more urgent: California does not have enough qualified teachers of…
Boston’s newest classrooms: schoolyards
The Boston Schoolyard Initiative started with parents and teachers clamoring for safe places where they could tell kids to "go outside and play," reports the Christian Science Monitor.…
Judge lifts gag on students over transit security
The Associated Press reports that a federal judge Tuesday lifted a gag order on three MIT students who were barred from talking publicly about security flaws they discovered in the…
Mixed results on paying city students to pass tests
Offered up to $1,000 for scoring well on Advanced Placement exams, students at 31 New York City high schools took 345 more of the tests this year than last. But…