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Facebook and Time Warner join to stop cyber bullying

July 25, 2011July 25, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor

A new partnership between Facebook and Time Warner aims to expand the companies' individual efforts to prevent online bullying. The initiative, called “Stop Bullying: Speak Up,” will combine…

Rhode Island act prevents cyber bullying, not social media access

November 5, 2013July 12, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor

Rhode Island’s recently-approved “Safe School Act,” created in response to online bullying, seeks to standardize school responses to online bullying issues. And despite some media reports decrying the…

Digital technology changes boundaries of students’ free-speech rights

July 1, 2011July 1, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

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Rhode Island’s ban on Facebook in schools too dumb to be a joke

June 30, 2011 by staff and wire services reports

On Thursday, the Rhode Island legislature passed HB 5941, an "anti-bullying" measure that, among its other provisions, imposes a blanket ban on the use of "social networking sites"…

ISTE conference is alive with social networking

November 5, 2013June 28, 2011 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

What better place to use social networking technologies to connect with fellow educators and school leaders than at the nation's largest ed-tech conference? That's what was happening at…

Digital Wish makes school fundraising easier

June 22, 2011June 22, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor

Websites that let teachers post their classroom "wish lists" for donors to fulfill have been around for more than a decade, but now one of those sites—Digital Wish—has…

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