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Students at the 14-owned Pennsylvania state universities will see a $25 increase in technology fees, The Patriot-News reports.

The star video game developer behind Age of Empires has turned his gaming talents to something new: teaching children languages, reports The New York Times.

The fight over school curriculum in Texas -- recently focused on biology -- has entered a new arena, reports the Wall Street Journal, with a brewing debate over…

Acer, a manufacturer of PCs, notebook computers, and other IT products, is letting schools test its products for free in exchange for the chance to win a new…

State education officials on Thursday rejected a plan by a Southern California school district to use summer classes to make up for a scheduling error that could cost…

Planning helped but it was improvisation using cell phones and sticky notes that enabled school nurse Mary Pappas to cope when the U.S. swine flu epidemic started in…

The West Virginia Board of Education is set to consider changes to its textbook adoption policy that would make it easier for the state to buy electronic textbooks,…

The use of laptop computers by high school students in Daviess County, Ky., has opened new doors for both students and teachers, reports the Courier & Press of…

A pilot project by North Carolina's Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is putting computer labs into a local apartment complex to help bridge the technology gap among students and…

When the Online School for Girls flickers to life this fall on computer screens across the country, students will take part in an unusual experiment that joins two…

Nearly every school system in Florida has eviscerated or eliminated summer school this year, and officials are reporting sweeping cuts in states from North Carolina and Delaware to…

A hastily revived New York City Board of Education voted unanimously July 1 to retain Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, but didn't allow public comment at its first meeting…

In the ongoing state budget battle, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has agreed to drop all funding for the four-year-old Classrooms for the Future grant program, which pumped nearly…

Social networking sites present a record-keeping quandary for public agencies and officials who must follow Florida's open government and public-records laws, reports the Naples Daily News.

A bill that puts the brakes on online public charter schools in Oregon narrowly won approval in the state House of Representatives, reports the Statesman Journal of Salem.

Educational publisher Pearson announced on June 24 that it is partnering with an Indian education company and an internet tutoring firm as it increases its focus on the…

Throughout the region, high schools are adding FIRST robotics programs to encourage the study of engineering and related fields, while teaching collaboration and other 21st-century skills, reports the…

Tennessee’s Memphis City Schools is paying students $7.25 an hour this summer to complete a 240-hour computer maintenance class, hoping to put them to work as PC troubleshooters…

Parents and students of Ohio's online schools fear that when lawmakers pass the state budget, the state's 28 internet-based charter schools will disappear into cyberspace, reports the Cincinnati…

Under a bill signed by Gov. Rick Perry on June 19, Texas school districts will be able to tap state textbook money for buying laptop computers or other…

A flashy movie editing program called Super LoiLoScope MARS has taken Japan by storm, with 20 million downloads, reports the New York Times -- and its ease of…

Plano, Texas, public school employees sending eMail messages next school year might find someone else also receiving the messages, reports the Dallas Morning News: their boss.