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Acer launches two new Chromebooks for education

Acer expanded its line of Chromebooks for the education market with two new models, the Acer Chromebook C910 and Acer Chromebook C740, both introduced at BETT 2015 in…

Teaching Trends

Acer launches two new Chromebooks for education

February 4, 2015 by Laura Ascione

Chromebook-Acer

Acer expanded its line of Chromebooks for the education market with two new models, the Acer Chromebook C910 and Acer Chromebook C740, both introduced at BETT 2015 in…

District Management

Feds: No charges in school laptop-spying case

November 5, 2013August 18, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

No criminal charges will be filed against a suburban Philadelphia school district that secretly snapped tens of thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots on laptops issued to…

District Management

School webcam spying prompts call for new laws

August 18, 2010March 30, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., is pushing for new federal laws on electronic privacy as a school district in his home state struggles with a lawsuit over attempts to…

District Management

Experts: Schools can track laptops less intrusively

November 5, 2013February 25, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

School officials in Pennsylvania who admit remotely activating webcams to locate missing laptops could have used far less intrusive methods of finding the machines, such as GPS tracking…

District Management

School security breaches on the rise

January 18, 2010June 2, 2009 by By Laura Devaney, Senior Editor

Increases in physical and network security breaches among K-12 school districts are hampering schools' efforts to improve their overall security, according to the third annual School Safety Index,…

Teaching Trends

Tracking equipment leads to recovery of stolen school computer

January 7, 2009 by ESchool News

Thieves had better think twice before stealing a computer from the Fort Worth, Texas, school district, reports the Dallas Morning News: Fort Worth school officials say police have…