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Teen’s suicide after repeated bullying sparks debate
A teen’s suicide in bucolic Western Massachusetts has resulted in several of her former classmates being charged with crimes ranging from disturbing a school assembly to civil-rights violations, harassment, and…
Social media: Colleges’ newest battlefield for students, alumni donations
Colleges’ unending campaign to attract more students and alumni donations has higher-education officials looking to two technologies that consume a growing chunk of people’s free time: social media and video…
Google: 600 communities aim to be high-speed networking test sites
Planning to build a local high-speed broadband network as a test project, Google Inc. has received more than 600 responses from communities interested in the effort, BusinessWeek reports.…
Web slurs target teen suicide victim
A community reeling from the suicide of a popular high school senior turned its sorrow to outrage March 26 over a practice known as "trolling."…
Microsoft adds Windows Phone 7 awards to student competition
Microsoft has added a "Windows Phone 7 Rockstar Award" to the list of other competitions in its annual Imagine Cup programming competition for students, reports WindowsforDevices.com.…
Use multiple news channels to reach ‘on-the-go’ consumers
School officials need to share information via a variety of media platforms in order to reach today’s “on-the-go” news consumers, a new study suggests.…
Intel program helps teachers widen horizons
Junior-high students in Holbrook, Ariz., talk with people around the world via Skype. Fifth-graders in Sierra Vista investigate wildlife crime scenes. …
Lehigh loses in NCAA tournament, but scores big on Google
Across the nation, a single question formed in the minds of tens of thousands of college basketball fans last Thursday at 10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, reports the Morning Call…
Could school bus ads save district budgets?
School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, reports the Associated Press—and some have now resorted to placing advertisements on school buses.…
XO laptops are loved, but use is limited in Birmingham
Two years after the low-cost XO laptop program was introduced to Birmingham, Ala., city schools, students say they love the $200 machines but use them more at home than at…