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To curb truancy, Dallas tries electronic monitoring
Instead of juvenile detention, 15-year-old freshman Jaime Pacheco of East Dallas was chosen by a judge to be enrolled in a pilot program in which chronically truant students are monitored…
Facebook ordered to out kids behind principal’s fake profile
Anonymous pranksters who made a fake Facebook profile for a high school dean and used it to send out messages might soon be exposed, thanks to a court order issued…
Colleges putting their own spin on YouTube
A growing number of colleges and universities are trying to elbow their own video messages onto such sites as YouTube to promote themselves, create a virtual community, and drown out…
Education student sues over MySpace page
Stacy Snyder was weeks away from getting her teaching degree when she said her career was derailed by an activity common among many young teachers, reports ABC News: posting personal…
Democrats revive net-neutrality proposal
The only net neutrality proposal to encounter some measure of success in the U.S. Congress is back again for another try, CNET reports. …
Microsoft to help disabled access Office documents
Microsoft has released a software add-on to help those who have difficulty reading printed documents turn Word documents into audio files, PC World reports. …
Comcast mulling web-usage cap to discourage ‘excessive’ use
Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per month and charging a fee for…
Forbes reveals ‘America’s Greenest Colleges’
Long a hotbed of environmental activism, America's campuses are blooming green, Forbes reports. …
Wilmington, N.C., to test change over to digital TV
Residents of Wilmington, N.C., soon will become laboratory rats in the nation's transition to digital TV, reports USA Today. …
Student loan social lending site launches
A new person-to-person social lending web site aimed at college students struggling to find loans in the post-credit crunch market has launched in the United States, Finextra.com reports. …