The American Civil Liberties Union has asked public school officials in Tennessee to stop blocking students' access to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender web sites on school computers…
Default Lines for eSchool News, print edition, May 1, 2009 -- A carnivorous creature has been seen skulking about the internet henhouse, and frankly, it's making certain chickens…
Carlie Christine might have been Playboy's Cyber Girl of the Week in February, but she's no longer the cheerleading coach of Casa Roble High School in Orangevale, Calif.,…
If a teacher had designed Twitter, it would have looked like Edmodo, writes ZDNet blogger Christopher Dawson, technology director for the Athol-Royalston School District in northern Massachusetts.
As the economy sheds jobs, community colleges across the country are reporting a surge of unemployed workers enrolling in courses that offer training for "green-collar" jobs. Key words:…
Parents, school districts, and law-enforcement officials have been grappling with what to do with teenagers who take sexually explicit photos of themselves with their cell phone cameras and…
As the economy sheds jobs, community colleges across the country are reporting a surge of unemployed workers enrolling in courses that offer training for "green-collar" jobs. Key words:…
Oral arguments in a music downloading lawsuit filed by the recording industry against a Boston University student can't be streamed online, a federal appeals court ruled April 16.…
Oral arguments in a music downloading lawsuit filed by the recording industry against a Boston University student can't be streamed online, a federal appeals court ruled April 16.…
Once a concept only well known in special-education circles, Response to Intervention (RTI)--which responds to individual students' needs by taking a data-based approach to instruction--has taken hold in…
Nearly half of Maine high schools would likely participate in an expansion of the state's laptop initiative, but another 42 percent are on the fence and 11 percent…
Four Texas state senators, fed up with curriculum and textbook battles at the State Board of Education, pitched legislation April 14 that would strip the board of its…
The easy availability of digital video clips through video-sharing web sites such as YouTube and others is changing the nature of recruiting for college athletics, something that has…
Teachers and students are largely driving the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in schools, but human and technological barriers are holding back the use of these as learning…
The easy availability of digital video clips through video-sharing web sites such as YouTube and others is changing the nature of recruiting for college athletics, something that has…
Privacy and security concerns are among the many barriers holding back the use of social networking tools in schools, new research suggests--but a number of child-friendly applications have…
Two American Fork boys could face charges after accessing pornography on a school computer and showing it to classmates, reports the Daily Herald of Provo, Utah.
A decade after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold made Columbine a synonym for rage, new information indicates that much of what the public has been told about the…
In an important change that comes two months after schools already applied for FY2009 e-Rate discounts, intranet web hosting has been classified as e-Rate eligible beginning with the…