Two information technology employees of the Lower Merion School District have been placed on leave while an investigation continues into the use of remote surveillance software on student…
Anger over rising tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown…
The Seekonk, R.I., school committee is weighing a proposal from Volpe Industries Inc. (VPI) to place GPS tracking and facial recognition equipment on a Seekonk school bus, reports…
Before an audience of chief technology officers from across the country, Karen Cator, director of education technology for the U.S. Department of Education, and Federal Chief Technology Officer…
The U.S. Department of Education has named 16 finalists in the first round of its Race to the Top competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform…
In the latest development in a dispute with broad implications for colleges nationwide, UCLA says it will continue to stream online instructional videos to students. The move comes…
In the latest development in a dispute with broad implications for colleges nationwide, UCLA says it will continue to stream online instructional videos to students. The move comes…
In a move that will prevent educators and others from making backup copies of DVDs they show in class, RealNetworks Inc. said March 3 that it will stop…
The Texas state education board's influential Christian conservative bloc was weakened March 3 after one of its most prominent members lost his seat to a moderate Republican, and…
A district superintendent who fired all the teachers from one of Rhode Island's most troubled schools said March 3 that she's willing to negotiate with its teachers' union…
Facing huge budget deficits, a number of states across the nation are taking a hard look at whether they can continue to support public television, Stateline.org reports.
Google is thinking about ways to inject search into the educational process as more than just a quick and dirty cheat sheet for students, CNET reports.
In one of the largest national surveys of public school teachers, thousands of educators agreed that today’s students aren’t college-ready when they graduate from high school. Teachers' suggestions…
Web security experts say university IT officials should stop using students’ Social Security numbers as identifications, because about 5,900 known botnets have stolen valuable information from computers in…
"Exploring Bioethics," from the National Institutes of Health, helps students grapple with ethical issues posed by advances in the life sciences. This supplemental curriculum for students in grades…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival's dominance of internet search, reports the Associated Press.
In a move that could further sap bandwidth on college campuses, the NCAA now offers fans a way to watch searchable highlights from men’s basketball tournament games since…
Utah education officials have secured a $13.4 million federal grant to pipe broadband into dozens of elementary schools, making internet access available to thousands of students, reports the…