Claim: Google Apps for Education inaccessible to blind students
Trigg County Public Schools Deploys ZeroEyes’ AI Gun Detection and Intelligent Situational Awareness Technology
Kentucky School District Integrates Leading Proactive Solution to Mitigate Gun-Related Violence
Mobile learning, online communities take the spotlight
During its annual conference in New Orleans March 15, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) launched two new initiatives: one to help school leaders understand how to lead…
Obama pledges crackdown on cyber bullying
President Barack Obama paved the way for victims of cyber bullying and their families to speak candidly about how school bullying has affected their lives in profound ways…
Experts: Use national budget crisis as an opportunity
In the opening session for the Consortium for School Networking’s annual conference, held this year in New Orleans, the theme was "Mastering the Moment," which referred to the…
How to handle campus crises in the digital age
Pepperdine University President Andrew Benton told higher-education officials March 7 in Washington, D.C. that they should be wary of contact with journalists covering campus emergencies such as fires…
Software helps personalize math instruction
K-12 math instruction is undergoing fundamental changes as individualized adaptive learning programs combine with lessons meant to keep students of all ages engaged and interested.
$1.5M grant jump-starts teacher development
Tutor.com, which connects students with live tutors online for tutoring in math, science, social studies, and English, is the largest online tutoring and homework help service available—and, with…
Fed rule could have ‘major chilling effect’ on online instruction
Colleges that offer online instruction nationwide would have to get approval from every state in which they operate, or those online courses could be shut down, after the…
Can GPS tracking devices help lower truancy rates?
Schools in the Anaheim Union High School District in California are the latest to try a novel way to improve attendance: monitoring students' whereabouts with GPS tracking devices.
Wis. GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining
At least two dozen protesters spent the night just outside the Wisconsin state Assembly chamber in anticipation of a late Thursday morning vote on explosive union rights legislation…
Schools to get $9M for off-campus wireless access
Government officials are handing out $9 million for projects that will help schools extend wireless internet connections beyond the classroom.
Obama highlights $90M ed-tech agency
Educational technology advocates applauded President Obama’s focus on college and career readiness and his call for a new federal agency devoted to ed-tech innovations, which he expanded on…
Obama to GOP: Don’t cut education spending
Placing a limit on his own willingness to slice spending, President Barack Obama issued a not-too-veiled warning at Republican budget cutters Tuesday and characterized any reductions in money…
Students learn the ethics of cell phone snapshots
A new cell phone photography class at a suburban Philadelphia university focuses on both the quality of the images and the ethical responsibilities that come with taking and…
Stakeholders differ on college and career readiness
A new report reveals that while teachers, parents, students, and executives believe that college- and career-readiness is essential to students’ post-high school success, the groups rate this differently…
Kaspar the friendly robot helps autistic kids
Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff when they hugged her. This year, the 4-year-old autistic girl began playing with…
A call for curricular support as Common Core standards take hold
A diverse group of educators and stakeholders is calling for clear curricular guidance to complement the new Common Core State Standards that most states have adopted, including examples…
Wisconsin labor battle heats up on YouTube
National newspapers, television, and radio stations aren't the only places where the Wisconsin labor conflict is playing out; now, both sides have taken to YouTube with ad campaigns…
Survey: IT college grads not ‘ready to go’
Many companies and college IT departments are ready to hire as the economy thaws, but more than nine in 10 college graduates who majored in information technology (IT)…
Company claim: Emergency alerts get to students in 20 seconds
A two-inch keychain might be the solution for campus officials hoping to avoid public scrutiny next time their emergency text messages hit a logjam and don’t reach student…
Signs of the times: Digital displays go to school
From revenue-generating message boards at concession stands and athletic venues, to point-of-sale displays at campus bookstores and alumni gift shops, to distance-learning applications and asset-reservation panels outside lecture…
Jobs breaks from medical leave to unveil iPad 2
Apple is back with a second-generation tablet computer that squeezes more power into a thinner shell while keeping prices in check. Underscoring the tablet's importance to Apple, CEO…
Survey: Districts lack STEM funding, professional development
Though STEM educators highly value technology’s presence and potential in the classroom, they cited a lack of funding and professional development for teachers as two major roadblocks in…
Ga. Tech to host disabled STEM students in Second Life
Colleges and universities have shown concern about the growing gender gap in science, technology, education, and math (STEM), and Georgia Tech has found another group often left out…
Viewpoint: School leaders need more help, and not red tape, to transform education
Our public system of education seems to be under constant attack from the media and self-appointed “reformers.” Regardless of the opinion those outside of education might hold, it…
Readers weigh in on treating education as a business
While many readers argue that schools could learn a lot from business, a majority agree with the premise that businesses and schools have fundamentally different missions and therefore…
Facebook malware threatens campus web security
Students will click on just about anything posted to their Facebook walls—a social media habit that has brought a flood of malware to college campus networks.
AUPs shape Web 2.0 use, guidelines
As educational technology transforms teaching and learning, many districts are finding that once-solid acceptable use policies (AUPs) must be updated to reflect students' and teachers' increasing use of…
Tech tool could take the guessing out of college fundraising
College and university fundraising officials might not have to wonder how alums feel about their alma mater thanks to a computer program that can tell just how much…
NSBA, AASA to combine national conferences
The National School Boards Association and the American Association of School Administrators will combine their annual conferences into a single event beginning in 2013, the two organizations announced…
Schools boost efforts to ID fake student addresses
Kelley Williams-Bolar, alarmed after her home was broken into, yanked her two daughters out of their urban Akron, Ohio, schools and enrolled them in her father's suburban school…
Federal broadband service map reveals need for connectivity
The National Broadband Map, released by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Feb. 17, reveals that while the majority of schools are connected to the internet, those…
New clicker technology allows a different look at student answers
The anonymity of lecture hall response systems has taken the awkwardness out of sensitive questions in Timothy Loving’s Introduction to Family Relationships course, and a new clicker software…
On prank call, Wis. governor discusses strategy
On a prank call that quickly spread across the internet, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was duped into discussing his strategy to cripple public employee unions, promising never to…
Maine laptop program offers lessons in ed-tech implementation
Nine years after it became the first state in the nation to initiate a 1-to-1 laptop program in its schools, Maine continues to innovate with technology and has…
States make gains in building data systems
States have made unprecedented progress collecting longitudinal data in education, but they have not taken action to ensure data are used to improve student achievement, according to the…
ED to unions, districts: Can’t we all just get along?
Despite frequent reports of labor-management strife in the nation’s schools, there are many school systems in which teachers and district leaders are working together to improve public education—and…
How to raise student achievement through better labor-management collaboration
Laura Rico, union president for California’s ABC Unified School District, said the idea of collaboration between labor and management was “very risky—even political suicide.” But the partnership has…
Wisconsin protests grow as teachers balk at proposed legislation
Republicans who swept into power in state capitols this year with promises to cut spending and bolster the business climate now are beginning to usher in a new…
Expert: Federal school reform plan is wrong
