Laura Ascione is the Editorial Director at eSchool Media. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland's prestigious Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Investing in procedures, training, and equipment that can make networks more secure is well worth the expense for higher-education institutions, ... Read more
IT managers at Stanford University were concerned. As security threats to colleges and universities increased, Stanford needed to keep private ... Read more
As House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., prepares to release his legislative proposal for new rules to preserve an open internet, a leaked version reveals that it…
In a case of video voyeurism gone high-tech, a pair of Rutgers University freshmen secretly placed a camera in a dorm room earlier this month and broadcast a…
A telecommunications official on Sept. 28 warned that the United States could run out of unique internet addresses to assign to new devices by the end of next…
Policy makers and philanthropists have a new resource in the effort to increase the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math, reports the Associated Press: An…
Amazon has unveiled a program that allows Kindle electronic books to be sampled in a web browser, AFP reports. "Kindle for the Web" is featured on the online…
The City University of New York and IBM will open a unique school that merges high school with two years of college, allowing students to earn an associate's…
With 4,100 students, Massachusetts’ Brockton High School is an exception to what has become conventional wisdom in many educational circles, reports the New York Times: that small is…
Kno has announced that it plans to make a single-screen version of its tablet textbook, ReadWriteWeb reports. The company received a $46 million round of funding in August…
In Alison Saylor's technology class, she teaches her students more than just computers: In fact, she says they're learning things that just might revolutionize the classroom, 9news.com reports.…
Inspired in part by the propensity for today’s students to lose themselves in technology or leave nasty anonymous comments on web sites, Rutgers University this week is launching…
School buses are often a likely place for assaults, bullying, and vandalism to occur. In a Chicago suburb, a 3-year-old, hearing-impaired girl was allegedly assaulted on a school…
A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system. Now the…
For many years, diversity in higher education has been measured by how many low-income students and students of color enroll in college. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
“Waiting for ‘Superman,’” which opened Sept. 24 in New York and Los Angeles, has generated buzz for months in education circles. The film also offers a broad-brush indictment…
Texas officials filed a lawsuit Sept. 23 against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to overturn the federal agency's rejection of the state's application for more than $830…