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U. Minnesota plans new drinking policy

March 2, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

The University of Minnesota-Duluth is planning a new policy to encourage students to report drinking-related medical emergencies by protecting them from legal ramifications. Key words: college drinking, University…

Teaching Trends

Sidekick phones top a dubious category: theft

March 2, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

School and college IT administrators might want to warn their students about the latest hot target for thieves: T-Mobile Sidekick cell phones. Key words: t-mobile, checkmend, boston arts…

Teaching Trends

Colleges see donations decline

February 27, 2009 by eSchool News Staff and wire service reports

The legions of fundraisers colleges hired during the boom years have a new mission for these tough economic times: Go easy on the hard sell. Talk about financial…

Teaching Trends

Some colleges offering three-year degrees

February 26, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

The idea of offering a traditional bachelor's degree in three years instead of four has never really caught on, at least in the United States, but it might…

Teaching Trends

Obama to Congress: Education is key

February 24, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama on Feb. 24 cited education as one of three keys to economic recovery and long-term…

Teaching Trends

Educators wary in wake of Nortel bankruptcy

February 24, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Acutely aware of how the sudden change or demise of an important technology vendor can wreak havoc on their ed-tech programs, school leaders across North America are watching…

Teaching Trends

Economic crisis forces shift in college aid

February 19, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

The current economic crisis has ravaged college endowments and prompted a host of reactions among campus officials. One of the most subtle, yet potentially profound effects of the…

Teaching Trends

Colleges keep students in school with extra aid

February 19, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Even as colleges and universities consider layoffs and enrollment caps in response to the economic meltdown, many are also investing additional money in financial aid programs in an…

Teaching Trends

Duncan wants stimulus to transform schools

February 18, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

President Barack Obama and his Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, want to do more than save teachers' jobs or renovate classrooms with the new economic recovery law. They're hoping…

IT Management

Students’ exercise helps power university

November 5, 2013February 18, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Thousands of college students regularly hit the cardio exercise machines to work off stress after an exam or stay in shape. Oregon State University (OSU) is harnessing the…

Teaching Trends

Former student shot at Detroit high school

February 17, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

A former student, who sneaked past security, was shot on the second floor of a Detroit high school as hundreds of current students and teachers were ending classes…

eClassroom News

Big district dumps grade levels — for starters

February 13, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

School districts across the United States are trying to improve student performance. But few have taken as radical an approach as Adams 50 in Colorado. Key words: Adams…

eClassroom News

New ‘sensory tech’ could help teach piano

February 13, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Talk about a helping hand: Researchers at Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology are trying to reinvent how students learn to play the piano by developing a special…

Featured SAFE

School roofs collapse in two separate incidents

February 12, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Two separate school roof collapses, caused by severe weather and snow, killed one woman and closed another school for repairs.

Teaching Trends

Stimulus deal addresses school modernization

February 12, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Senate and House negotiators agreed Feb. 11 on a compromise, $789 billion economic stimulus bill that includes some funding for school modernization, a priority item for President Obama…

Teaching Trends

Schools lose in Senate stimulus ‘compromise’

February 10, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Despite $1 billion in ed-tech funding and increases in college Pell Grants, education took a major hit when the U.S. Senate cut all $20 billion in proposed funding…

Teaching Trends

Alaskan schools prepare for volcanic eruption

February 9, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Some Alaskan schools are making preparations in advance of what scientists say is an "imminent" eruption from the 10,200-foot Redoubt Volcano, about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage.

eClassroom News

On Darwin’s 200th, a theory still in controversy

February 9, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

It's well known that Charles Darwin's groundbreaking theory of evolution made many people furious because it seemed to contradict the Biblical view of creation. But few know that…

District Management

Patent fight shows perils of ‘tech transfer’

February 9, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

The University of Missouri is suing one of its professors in a case that points to the pitfalls of "technology transfer," the growing enterprise in which university labs…

District Management

Porn charges for ‘sexting’ stir debate

February 5, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

As eSchool News has reported before, the growing trend of teenagers distributing nude self-portraits electronically--often called "sexting" if it's done by cell phone--has parents and school administrators worried.…

eClassroom News

Congress postpones digital TV transition

February 5, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

After weeks of debate, Congress is giving educators and consumers four more months to prepare for the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Key concepts: digital…

Teaching Trends

New Google software tracks users’ location

February 5, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Google Inc. on Feb. 4 introduced new "social mapping" software with several implications for schools and their students--from allowing friends to find each others' locations on or off…

Teaching Trends

Singularity U. wants to harness tech’s power

February 4, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Technology is changing the world so rapidly that even geniuses need help making sense of it all. That's the idea underlying Singularity University, an unconventional school that will…

Teaching Trends

Free iPhone app expands college radio’s reach

February 4, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

College radio programs could get additional exposure from a new application that allows users from anywhere in the world to find and listen to student-run internet radio stations…

Featured SAFE

Schools affected as peanut-product recall expands

February 3, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

At least 365 schools and agencies in at least three states were shipped possibly tainted peanut products linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak as part of the federal…

Teaching Trends

Google Earth allows exploration of oceans

February 3, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

A new version of Google Earth will allow users to explore the oceans, view images of Mars and watch regions of the Earth change over time. Key concepts:…

eClassroom News

Hackers’ latest ploy: Spoofing 911 calls

February 3, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

A new kind of high-tech telephone fraud exploits a weakness in the way the 911 system handles calls from internet-based phone services. The attacks--called "swatting," because armed police…

Teaching Trends

News groups seek webcast in file-sharing case

February 2, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Fourteen news organizations, including the Associated Press and the New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in a…

Teaching Trends

K-State admits data security lapse

February 2, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Kansas State University is notifying 45 students who were enrolled in an agricultural economics class in spring 2001 that some of their personal information was inadvertently exposed on…

Teaching Trends

House OKs record $142 billion for education

January 29, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill on Jan. 28 that includes some $142 billion for education as part of the Obama…

eClassroom News

Anti-evolution forces gain ground in Texas

January 29, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

The Texas Board of Education has sparked controversy in the world of science with a move last week that would require students to evaluate the "sufficiency or insufficiency"…

Teaching Trends

New Smithsonian chief eyes ed tech

January 28, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Warning that American education and research have fallen behind, the new head of the Smithsonian Institution has launched an ambitious effort to digitize its 137 million artifacts and…

Teaching Trends

Copyright settlement leaves questions

January 28, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

A closely watched copyright-infringement lawsuit with important implications for schools, newspapers, and other organizations that aggregate news content from other sources on their web sites or in eMail…

Building a Cost-Effective Digital Classroom

Report: Reinvent schools for digital age

June 29, 2010January 26, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Educators can't truly deliver 21st-century instruction in schools that reflect Industrial-Age designs, with rigid schedules, inflexible facilities, and fixed boundaries between grades, disciplines, and classrooms, according to a…

eClassroom News

Gates Foundation to give $22M for education

January 23, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

In its efforts to ensure that students graduate from high school ready for college and success in the future workplace, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced…

Teaching Trends

West Point will tell soldiers’ stories on the web

January 23, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Lt. Col. Paul Owen, West Point Class of '90, came back to the academy to tell his story about Iraq. Sitting before a video camera in his dress…

IT Management

Colleges convert cooking oil into biodiesel fuel

November 5, 2013January 23, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Forgive the students at Sinclair Community College if they get the munchies when they pass the tractors that cut grass, blow leaves, or sweep snow on campus: Oil…

District Management

COPA dies quietly in Supreme Court

January 22, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

A federal law intended to restrict children's access to internet pornography died quietly Jan. 21 at the U.S. Supreme Court, more than 10 years after Congress overwhelmingly approved…

eClassroom News

Texas grapples with evolution in new science standards

January 22, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

The latest chapter in a long-running debate over how evolution should be taught in public schools opened Jan. 21 as the Texas State Board of Education ramped up…

Teaching Trends

Judge delays hearing in file-sharing case

January 22, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

A federal judge has postponed a hearing in a high-profile music file-sharing case that would have been the first in federal court in Massachusetts to be streamed online.…

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