Tablets—with their lightweight portability and interactive touch screens—have been hailed as the next “must have” as schools move toward mobile computing. But questions linger: How much network access…
Proposed guidelines for school districts to vie for $400 million in new federal grants have elicited mixed reaction from education groups—from concern among ed-tech groups over how “personalized…
“Redefining horizons: Encouraging students’ passion to achieve” is the theme for this year’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference—but in what looked like a scene that…
The bullying that bus monitor Karen Klein endured on a ride home from an upstate New York school was painful and egregious, but also shows how student harassment…
Students at the University of Wisconsin (UW) can earn college degrees based on proven competency in a subject, making UW the first publicly-funded school to launch a competency-based…
As the number of charter schools expands nationwide, one group of students that is enrolling in those schools at a lower rate is children with disabilities.
More than a year after the release of a Harvard University report encouraging the development of more pathways to careers for young adults, a coalition of six states…
American children do much better identifying the correct answers to simple scientific tasks than using evidence from their experiments to explain those answers.
Share My Lesson, a new online portal that teachers will be able to access free of charge, is expected to contain more than 100,000 user-generated materials.
Microsoft has unveiled a new tablet computer, Surface, that attempts to take advantage of one of the few criticisms of Apple's iPad, particularly among educators—that it is better…
The for-profit Florida university that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports as a model for holding down college costs is one of the country’s priciest schools, according to…
A new disruptive technology aims to help schools cut costs and streamline the deployment of virtual computing by combining servers, storage, and virtualization in a single box.
President Barack Obama's call for states to raise the minimum age at which students can drop out of high school seems about as popular as a homework assignment…
State officials in West Virginia have spent $90,000 on 286 new video game systems in the hope the machines can be used to motivate 21st century schoolchildren to…
While schools are right in teaching students about the dangers that exist online, a new website aims to promote the benefits of internet use—as well as bridge the…
When school technology directors purchase an innovative product from one vendor and an exciting upgrade from another vendor, schools can find themselves in a tangle of incompatible formats.…
A student’s physical reaction to a classroom lesson soon could be used to judge how successful—or unsuccessful—an educator is in keeping students engaged.
A new cadre of “blended learning” schools is opening this fall; South Dakota districts are adopting a cyber bullying hotline to curb online harassment of students; and an…
Websites are slowly taking a backseat to text messaging and micro-blogging tools like Twitter for breaking news, emergency messaging, and sharing other urgent information, writes award-winning eSN columnist…
“Boundary hoppers”—parents who falsify their residency so their children can attend a particular school—can strain already cash-strapped districts. Now, a new technology-based solution claims it can help.
I want to blow up K-12 education! Not the public school system, just the grade-level structure that has defined how our schools are organized since the 19th century.…
TIME magazine, U.S. News, and other publications have begun to release their "best" school rankings for 2012. Many of these rankings rely on two key factors in particular:…
More than half of U.S. students in their last year before college admit they text or eMail while driving—the first federal statistics on how common the dangerous habit…
It might seem like common sense: To achieve better results, students have to be motivated. But what can schools do about this? A new report from the Center…
Kansas is headed toward another debate over how evolution is taught in its public schools, with a State Board of Education member saying June 1 that science standards…
