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Lawsuit targets ‘locator’ chips in Texas student IDs
To 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez, the tracking microchip embedded in her student ID card is a "mark of the beast," sacrilege to her Christian faith—not to mention how it pinpoints her…
Important considerations for blended learning
As blended learning programs grow in popularity, proponents of the approach—which involves a combination of computer-based learning and face-to-face instruction—say there are a few key considerations school leaders should keep…
Survey: School web filtering can impede learning
More and more students are bringing personal mobile devices to school, but a new survey from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) finds that content filtering often prevents students…
Georgia school systems use Gallup to predict teacher success
The three largest school systems in Georgia, tasked with screening avalanches of job applicants, use a high-tech tool that's supposed to identify people with a passion for teaching.…
McGraw-Hill sells its education business
In a surprise $2.5 billion cash and debt deal expected to be final by the early part of 2013, a private equity firm will purchase McGraw-Hill Education's digital and traditional…
Feds: Pa. can’t give special treatment to charter schools
The federal government has shot down Pennsylvania’s unilateral rule change that made it easier for charter schools—including cyber charters—to meet federal testing benchmarks than traditional public schools.…
Some states preserve penmanship despite tech gains
The pen might not be as mighty as the keyboard these days, but California and a handful of states are not giving up on handwriting entirely.…
Michigan takes big step forward in online testing of students
Students ditched their No. 2 pencils in favor of a mouse and a keyboard to take Michigan’s state social studies exam—and in the process became part of a crucial project…
District’s answer to overcrowding: Blended learning
Could technology help solve the problem of crowded classrooms? The Manchester, N.H., school district is poised to find out as soon as next semester, when it plans to offer virtual…
BYOD transforms teaching, shapes Christmas lists
At Hawk Ridge Elementary School in North Carolina, a teacher recently introduced a historical novel by asking students to research one-room schoolhouses on their digital devices. And for many parents,…