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Inadequate support infrastructure: Adversely impacting students
After 42 years in education and 37 years as an educational technologist, I recently retired from my latest position, chief technology officer of an extremely large urban school…
Facebook users hooked in new ‘phishing’ scam
Facebook on May 15 was blocking links to bogus web sites set up to look like the home page of the popular online social network in a "phishing"…
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As web sites like Cramster and SparkNotes are transforming the way undergraduates study, some are questioning whether they encourage cheating and undermine learning, reports the New York Times.
House approves $6.4 billion for green schools
The House on Thursday passed a multiyear school construction bill with the ambitious goals of producing hundreds of thousands of jobs, reducing energy consumption and creating healthier, cleaner…
8th Graders’ Exam Is Delayed
According to the New York Time, the College Board said Thursday that it was putting off the unveiling of a new standardized test intended to help eighth graders…
iSchools lift hopes in NYC
A series of theme-based high schools are springing up across New York City, based on a model that has been open for only a year but already is…
New York Times: Foresensic Science in Classrooms
Forensic science has grown into a popular choice for many students at New Rochelle High School in New York.
Education secretary: Detroit schools are ‘ground zero’
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said May 13 that Detroit's troubled public schools are "ground zero" for education in the U.S. and promised federal help if leaders are willing…
A campaign for parents to shut down schools
It might be the next school movement to sweep the country, reports U.S. News: Emboldened by charter school operators, parents of children attending failing schools in Los Angeles…
Palo Alto computer system crashes, erasing data
Teachers put in extra hours to re-enter grades and students even rewrote essays after a computer system used by Palo Alto high and middle schools crashed last month,…
Palo Alto computer system crashes, erasing data
Teachers put in extra hours to re-enter grades and students even rewrote essays after a computer system used by Palo Alto high and middle schools crashed last month,…
Camera modified into stun gun found at school
A student at a Michigan school district learned to convert a disposable camera into a makeshift stun gun by watching a YouTube video and used the device on…
California Senate approves software as an alternative to textbooks
California teenagers might be spared having to lug backbreaking loads of textbooks to school under a proposal that would make it easier for campuses to use electronic instructional…
Forensics help make science cool
Many people fret these days about the state of science education in America and how kids just don't like the topic -- yet at New Rochelle High School…
Students compete for Google logo prize
Two Delaware students are among 40 finalists in Doodle 4 Google, a national art competition to design a Google logo, reports the News Journal -- with the chance…
Alabama K-12 officials pushing for online checkbook
When Alabama's two-year college system became the latest state government entity to put its checkbook online in a bid for transparency last month, members of the Alabama board…
Seventh-graders create iPhone app
Sam Kaplan and Louie Harboe's company, Tapware, is one of the more promising technology startups in Chicago. For the two seventh-graders at the University of Chicago Laboratory School,…
iPods help ESL students achieve success
As school leaders ponder the implications of new technologies for their classrooms, one dedicated New Jersey educator has turned theory into practice, using the iPod to teach English…
A laptop, a child, a dollar — and a promise
The South Carolina Department of Education and the nonprofit Palmetto Project have teamed up to get a laptop in the hands of every elementary school student in South…
Wisconsin virtual-school applicants likely to exceed cap
The number of applicants for virtual schools in Wisconsin could exceed the 5,250-student cap set by the state Legislature next fall, WKOW reports.
California to develop free digital textbooks for high school students
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on May 6 launched an initiative to make California the first state in the nation to offer schools free, open-source digital textbooks for high…
Feds reverse course on flu-related school closings
Easing recommendations that have closed scores of schools nationwide, federal health authorities said May 5 that the new swine flu spreading across America is too mild to warrant…
NASA announces high school science program
U.S. high school students are being invited to take part in a NASA program designed to attract them to science and technology fields, UPI reports.
Oregon bill upsets virtual-school advocates
A bill in the Oregon state Senate proposes restrictions on Oregon's blooming virtual charter school industry, pitting the state's most powerful education organizations against online schools and parents,…
Tennessee classroom wins high-tech makeover
Jenny Alvey's sixth-grade science class at Tennessee's Gresham Middle School hit the jackpot May 4, reports the Knoxville News Sentinel, as a contingent from Oak Ridge Associated Universities…
Three sticking points could stunt stimulus education reform
President Obama is asking states to make education reforms in exchange for nearly $40 billion in stimulus funds for schools. But his aspirations might be on a collision…
University teaches the keys to ‘viral video’
