An Oregon woman is suing the music industry trade association in a case that could force the group to reveal how it targets people in its efforts to curb illegal downloading and sharing of music online. That knowledge could prove useful for higher-education officials, many of whom have been critical of the highly secretive process by which the group has singled out college students in its anti-piracy campaign.
As schools prepare for the debut this fall of science testing under No Child Left Behind, educators and science advocates are calling for renewed awareness of what many say is a national crisis in science education.
Before school officials prohibit teachers and students from accessing certain web sites, they should think about the positive impact those sites might have on education:
Ending a tense standoff with the White House, the Democratic-led Congress has agreed to a $555-billion year-end budget bill that meets President Bush's baseline spending cap on domestic programs and allows lawmakers to return home for the holidays. The budget contains $59.4 billion in funding for the U.S. Department of Education (ED), though an across-the-board recision of 1.75 percent will leave actual ED spending at $58.4 billion. The recision also means $5 million less in federal ed-tech funding this year.
Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey on technology's role in schools is now open
Students, parents, teachers, and now—for the first time—K-12 administrators are invited to take part in Speak Up 2007, an annual survey that seeks to determine what is needed to give students a top-notch, 21st-century education.
Open Content Alliance triggers philosophical debate over access to digital material
Results of first comprehensive study of Maine's pioneering ed-tech initiative show promise
The race to supply low-cost laptop computers to students in developing nations has heated up: Within hours of the news that Uruguay had become the first nation to buy XO laptops from former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
Acrobats, astronauts inspire attendees of NSBA's annual technology conference to innovate and take risks
A mass-notification system has been instrumental in keeping parents and students in an affected southern California school district in northern San Diego County informed about fire-related school decisions since the furious blazes began five days ago.
