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• Cal Poly Pomona discloses online security breach
  Tue, Nov 17, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security , Security
  The Social Security numbers, home addresses, and phone contacts for at least 300 students who applied for admission to Cal Poly Pomona six years ago were unintentionally disclosed online, reports the Los Angeles Times. [ Read More ]

• Is Texas' move toward online material the final chapter for textbooks?
  Tue, Nov 17, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Technologies
  Textbooks could be going the way of slide rules within a few years in Texas classrooms, reports the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: State legislation passed in the spring could put up-to-the-minute instructional content at students' fingertips, eliminating the mass-market hardback textbook. [ Read More ]

• Selling lessons online raises cash -- and questions
  Mon, Nov 16, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Technologies
  Thousands of teachers are cashing in on a commodity they used to give away, selling their lesson plans online for extra money -- a practice that has some officials questioning who owns material developed for public school classrooms, reports the New York Times. [ Read More ]

• Social networks could help community college students
  Mon, Nov 16, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Technologies , Communication & Collaboration
  A new report issued Nov. 16 finds that social-networking tools can help community college students become more engaged in their academics. But while large numbers of students say they use such tools in their daily lives, many two-year colleges have yet to mine the potential of the technology, USA Today reports. [ Read More ]

• Calculator hackers multiply their fun, pushing TI's buttons
  Mon, Nov 16, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
  Calculator hackers are a small band of enthusiasts who revel in making their devices perform sometimes oddball tasks. But to engage in some of their antics, they have to get around the Texas Instruments coding that aims to prevent hobbyists from hijacking the devices -- and TI isn't happy about this, reports the Wall Street Journal. [ Read More ]

• Google publishes Stanford dissertations online
  Mon, Nov 16, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Campus-based
  Stanford doctoral students now will be able to post their dissertations on Google as the university replaces the traditional bound volumes of acid-free paper with electronic files of scholarly work, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. [ Read More ]

• Prince George's schools to salvage computer system
  Mon, Nov 16, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  School Administration , Computer security
  An investigation by Prince George's County, Md., school officials found the SchoolMax scheduling system that snarled the first days of the new school year had significant shortcomings that required repeated repairs. But it also determined that replacing the system would be more costly and time-consuming than fixing it, reports the Washington Post. [ Read More ]

• Report: Ten states face looming budget disasters
  Fri, Nov 13, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Research
  California isn't the only state with a historic budget crisis: A study released Nov. 11 warned that at least nine other large states are also barreling toward economic disaster, raising the likelihood of higher taxes, more government layoffs, and deep cuts in services to schools and other programs, reports the Associated Press. [ Read More ]

• Microsoft to schools: Share a PC
  Fri, Nov 13, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Microsoft Corp.
  Microsoft is working on a new product, due out next year, that will let multiple students work independently and simultaneously off a single PC, CNET reports. [ Read More ]

• Purdue professor's blog post sparks debate
  Fri, Nov 13, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Policy
  A Purdue University professor has landed in hot water with students protesting his personal blog in a flap that has sparked a free-speech debate on campus, reports the Indianapolis Star. [ Read More ]

• UM regents defy lawmakers' demand for porn policy
  Fri, Nov 13, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Legislation
  The University System of Maryland has defied a request from state lawmakers to create a policy regulating the display of pornographic films on its campuses, concluding that such a move would provoke costly free-speech lawsuits, reports the Baltimore Sun. [ Read More ]

• Henrico County seeks parents' input on laptop contract
  Fri, Nov 13, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Computers
  Laptops in Henrico County, Va., middle schools are up for contract renewal next year, and the county -- a pioneer in one-to-one computing when it first announced its laptop initiative -- is soliciting input from parents on what to do about the machines, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. [ Read More ]

• Microsoft brings more data to Bing search results
  Thu, Nov 12, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Microsoft Corp.
  Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google, reports the Associated Press. [ Read More ]

• Academics hope history in video games spurs interest
  Thu, Nov 12, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Gaming
  Portraying Leonardo da Vinci or World War II in a video game is challenging game developers to mix fun with facts, Reuters reports -- while academics hope this growing genre will get players more interested in history. [ Read More ]

• Georgia grants launch algebra by iPod
  Thu, Nov 12, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Grants
  For the first time in its history, the Georgia Department of Education this month will hand out grants for schools to pioneer the use of handheld computing to see if it engages students better than traditional book-and-paper methods, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [ Read More ]

• District nixes cash-for-grades fundraiser
  Thu, Nov 12, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Administration
  A Goldsboro, N.C., middle school's controversial fundraiser came to an abrupt halt after a story in the News & Observer raised concerns about the practice of selling grades, the newspaper reports. [ Read More ]

• Two-year colleges, swamped, no longer welcome all
  Thu, Nov 12, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Admissions & Enrollment
  A surge in applicants has forced all but one of New York City's two-year colleges to limit admissions for the first time, reports the New York Times. [ Read More ]

• One middle school's fundraising strategy: Sell grades
  Wed, Nov 11, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Funding
  Selling candy didn't raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro, N.C., middle school is selling grades, reports the News & Observer. [ Read More ]

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