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- Police aim to fight crime w/txt msgs
- Test maker seeks online cheaters
- CoSN: It's time to archive your eMail
- Free K-12 content available through iTunes U
- States to design own plans for fixing schools
- ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers
- Vendors target education with new AV products
- Ruling favors schools in web-use case
Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now, in an increasing number of cities, cyber-savvy youths and other tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs--to identify criminals using text messages.
Prospective and current graduate business students who used a web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.
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Urging schools to make eMail archiving a "critical part" of their record-keeping activities, a leading educational technology advocacy group has come out with a new resource to help school leaders understand and comply with recent changes to federal laws governing data retention.
A new section on Apple's iTunes U contains a wealth of free online content for K-12 educators.
Formative assessment throughout the school year and better training for school leaders are among the plans for turning around sub-par schools that six states will try under a pilot program this year.
Schools looking for a framework to help guide their teachers' use of technology in the classroom have a new resource at their disposal: The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has issued new technology standards for teachers.
Technology for delivering audio, video, and other school presentations must be affordable and simple to use if it is to transform teaching and learning: That was one of the predominant themes at this year's InfoComm conference, held June 18-20 in Las Vegas.
The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that a South Carolina school district did not discriminate against a local activist when it refused to publish links to school voucher information on its web site.