Columbine 10 years later: Lessons learned
Risk assessments are awful, but necessary
Here are 5 ways to improve risk assessments in your district
Improved instruction leads to math success
During my career of more than 35 years in education, I have learned that content knowledge and instructional practice are two important elements that make teachers and their…
Student fitness bill raises questions
Legislation pending in Congress, called the "Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act" (FIT Kids Act), would update current physical fitness standards in K-12 schools and hold educators accountable…
Blackboard launches IM service
Leading educational technology vendor Blackboard Inc. unveiled its first integrated instant-messaging service April 2 for students and professors who rely on class web portals for lectures, assignments, exams,…
Suit dismissed in firing over creationism eMail
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a former Texas state science curriculum director who alleged that she was illegally fired for sending out an eMail message…
Federal judge blocks charges in ‘sexting’ case
A federal judge on March 30 temporarily blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three northeastern Pennsylvania teenagers who appeared in racy photos that turned up…
Breach sends water onto school campus in Fargo
The slowly receding Red River breached a dike on Fargo's north side early Sunday, sending water flowing into buildings at a school campus before it could be contained,…
Lawmaker crafting bill to set penalty for teens’ ‘sexting’
As ever-more-aggressive high school flirting clashes with evolving technology, Ohio lawmakers are searching for the appropriate way to deal with the growing trend of teenagers transmitting nude pictures…
Watch eSN-TV coverage of NECC
Stay tuned for eSN-TV reports from NECC 2009. In the meantime, check out a session about online safety from NECC 2008.
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NECC 2009 will explore students’ roles in a digital world
Attendees at the 2009 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) will examine what it means to live in a digital world, and will discuss the best ways to prepare…
Prosecutor sued for threatening charges in ‘sexting’ case
The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Pennsylvania prosecutor on March 25 over his threats to charge three teenage girls with child pornography for allowing themselves to be…
School sports caught in new-media rights dispute
A dispute over who has the right to broadcast school sporting events online has intensified, as a media company and a newspaper trade group say a lawsuit by…
University president talks, teaches tech
Building curriculum on the basics of information technology (IT) has helped one university president design courses that go beyond the surface teachings of computer certification to address skills…
Streaming video games pose IT challenge
First, campus IT officials have to contend with the strain on their networks' bandwidth caused by students' streaming or downloading of music and movies online. Now, a new…
More ‘fight club’ allegations at Texas school
Nine employees are under investigation over allegations of new fights among mentally disabled residents of the troubled Corpus Christi State School, a state lawmaker said March 21.
CoSN keeps school leaders ahead of the times
At the Consortium for School Networking's annual conference, held this year in Austin, Texas, March 10-12, issues such as the prevalence of Web 2.0 tools and the recession…
MIT makes research available on the web
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) faculty voted unanimously March 18 to make the school's scholarly research available for free on the internet, joining other noted universities that hope…
Students post schoolyard-brawl videos online
In schoolyards across the country, all it takes to attract a crowd is the call "Fight! Fight! Fight!" But now, students increasingly are showing up with cameras to…
Liverpool school district appeals dismissal of case against technology administrator
The Liverpool school district has appealed a decision to dismiss disciplinary charges against its technology administrator, according to the Post-Standard.
Software tests patience in Maryland district
A $4.1 million computer program designed to put Prince George's County, Md., students' grades, attendance, and discipline data online has been plagued with errors in its first year,…
Expert: Internet-mapping bill won’t deter attacks
A California lawmaker's proposal to require internet mapping services to blur detailed images of schools, colleges, hospitals, and other potential terrorist targets has generated a great deal of…
Stolen-data trove offers insights on botnets
Massive "botnet" networks -- armies of infected computers formed by spreading a computer virus that orders compromised machines to phone home for further instructions, such as sending out…
Hackers transfer $200,000 out of school’s bank account
Officials with the Carl Junction R-1 School District in Missouri say computer hackers apparently were able to transfer nearly $200,000 out of the district's bank account, reports the…
School shooting internet post was likely a fake
German police say they've made great strides toward developing a profile of the gunman in the March 11 school shooting spree that killed 15 people, but one key…
New campus safety issue: Cell phone stalking
The college student had endured months of online and cell-phone harassment from her ex-boyfriend. She ignored the barrage of eMails, changed her phone number, and dismantled online profiles…
School scraps cell phone jammer program
Just days after testing a cell phone jammer designed to block students from calling and texting during class, a Spokane, Wash., area school has scrapped the program, MSNBC…
School shooter warned of attack, in chat room
The 17-year-old gunman who went on a rampage at his former school and killed 15 people before taking his own life gave a warning in an Internet chatroom…
Colleges mull new music royalty structure
The nonprofit group Choruss, one of the organizations promoting blanket licensing for the use of digital music, is meeting with higher-education officials to formulate a plan for the…
Reading, Writing, and Technology
While the promise of classroom technology offers great advantages, for many teachers it often seems like more of an inconvenience than a resource. Using technology to shape lesson…
Teachers say they might tape-record students
Teachers in El Paso County, Texas, say they might begin tape-recording students in their classrooms as a means of self-protection, reports the El Paso Times.
Panel: Texas schools must embrace electronic textbooks
Advocates for more technology in the classroom, and fewer textbooks, are stepping up their arguments for change this year, trying to convince Texas lawmakers that the future of…
eSN-TV: AASA on ED’s outreach to supes
During the American Association of School Administrators' (AASA) annual conference held in San Francisco, Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of AASA, sat down with eSchool News' editor and…
Students school lawmakers on tech’s value
Students from four Georgia school districts were on Capitol Hill March 4 showing federal lawmakers how technology is being used to enhance teaching and learning in their classrooms--and…
“Use it or lose it” approach to technology garners impressive results
A distinctive trait of North Carolina's Cumberland County Schools (CCS) is not resting on our laurels, which explains why we went searching for a way to improve student…
AASA: Educate the ‘total child’
