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Free bikes challenge ‘car culture’ on campus
Free bikes or bike-sharing programs have cropped on college campuses nationwide, aimed at reducing traffic and parking shortages on campus and improving the sense of community, reports the New York…
Vulgar video benches Georgia high school football players
About 10 high school football players from South Effingham, Ga., were handed punishment Sept. 29 for a video that appeared on YouTube, reports the Savannah Morning News. …
Law professors put printed textbooks on trial
Law professors from around the country gathered in Seattle on Sept. 27 to put the printed textbook on trial, reports the Seattle Post Intelligencer. …
Blogging from the classroom, teachers seek influence, risk trouble
Teacher blogs, including those that are written anonymously, are becoming essential reading for anyone who wants to look beyond standardized test score reports to see what's really going on in…
Obama calls for ed-tech investment
Business leaders are intensifying their call for schools to retool their curriculum. A new report makes a strong economic case for why students must learn key 21st-century skills. And Democratic…
Digital inclusion, but how?
At one end of the trendy Cafe Aprendiz in Brazil, patrons enjoy dishes such as three-cheese ravioli and salmon salad with cucumber, but it's not the food that has drawn…
School boards restrict teacher-student web friendships
Teachers and students in Lamar County, Miss., can't be internet friends this year after the local school board revamped rules prohibiting them from being friends through online social networks, the…
Web networking photos come back to bite defendants
The Associated Press reports on a new trend that should give students yet more pause when posting controversial photos of themselves online.…
New vision proposes broader role for schools
Randi Weingarten, the New Yorker who is rising to become president of the American Federation of Teachers, says she wants to replace President Bush's focus on standardized testing with a…
Online political action can effect offline change
Will Anderson's first foray into politics didn't come via a letter to the editor or a campus flier, the Sun-Sentinel of South Florida reports: Instead, the 21-year-old started a group…