Court upholds new FCC video franchising rules
In a ruling that could provide schools and other consumers with more choice for their local video services, a U.S. appeals court on June 27 handed a victory…
Month: June 2008
Kindle gains popularity for university textbooks
Just as Apple got millions of college students to leave their CD collections at home each September in favor of a tiny iPod, Amazon is trying to convince…
Universal preschool students perform better
USA Today reports that an ambitious public pre-kindergarten program in Oklahoma boosts kids' skills dramatically, a long-awaited study finds--offering across-the-board evidence for the first time that universal preschool,…
Laptops for good grades: An offer students can’t refuse?
Freshmen at Arizona's Sunnyside and Desert View high schools will get a big incentive when they begin classes in August, the Tucson Citizen reports: a promise of a…
NECC attendees urged to become ‘change agents’
Near the site of the Alamo in downtown San Antonio, Texas, the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) kicked off June 29 with a night to remember--featuring a…
Internet exchange on the horizon
According to The New York Times, the exchange would let telephone networks, mobile operators, satellite providers and other telecommunications companies trade capacity on their systems.
Superintendent: bad tenured teachers hard to fire
A case of a misbehaving tenured teacher in NY illustrates a nagging problem in school districts elsewhere around the country: firing bad teachers. It is also part of…
Op-ed: the dropout issue
The schools that have made significant progress in teaching and learning are beginning to look more closely at the dropout issue because they cannot be content when so…
InfoComm 2008: Acoustics & Audio
Anchor Audio introduced the AN-Mini, a portable speaker and audio system weighing less than three pounds. The speaker comes with ... Read more
InfoComm 2008: Cables, Connectors & Accessories
A big push at this year's InfoComm seemed to be products designed for and around digital visual interface (DVI), which maximizes the quality of digital displays, and high-definition…