The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri reached a settlement with the Camdenton R-III School District on March 28 regarding a judge's ruling that the school district was using Internet filtering software inappropriately to block websites that supported the rights of … [Read more...]
NSBA’s Bryant Expresses Concerns About Virtual Schools
March 28, 2012 By
National School Boards Association Executive Director Anne Bryant published this commentary in the Huffington Post, citing concerns about the lack of quality research related to online schools for K-12 learners. More research is needed to determine whether online education is as rigorous and … [Read more...]
Brooklyn High School fines students $100 for using Facebook, threatens expulsion if they don’t stop
March 28, 2012 By
Controversy ensued after Beis Rivkah High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., pulled from class every 11th grade student who used Facebook and handed them a written ultimatum: delete their accounts from the social networking site and pay $100 to the school, or be expelled, community website CrownHeights.info … [Read more...]
Students’ device taps swimming pool for power
March 28, 2012 By
Most American teens may see a pool as a chance for a swim or lazy summer relaxation, but one group of California high school students envisions swimming pools as a new source of electricity to power U.S. schools, homes and businesses, LiveScience reports. Their energy solution relies upon the power … [Read more...]
Georgia district implements virtual-world technology
March 28, 2012 By
Virtual simulations will help engage students, district officials said.A major metropolitan school district has announced that it will offer a 3D virtual-world environment to every classroom teacher in its 35 schools.Forsyth County Schools in metro Atlanta, Georgia’s ninth-largest school district … [Read more...]
Moodlerooms CEO: Blackboard acquisition will expand open-source movement
March 28, 2012 By
Blackboard's share of the college LMS market has dropped in recent years.Lou Pugliese, CEO of Moodlerooms, said Blackboard’s purchase of his company and another firm that hosts and supports the popular open-source learning management system (LMS) Moodle should be welcome news to educators who … [Read more...]
Harry Potter breaks eBook lockdown
March 28, 2012 By
If J.K. Rowling's new web store proves a success, it could provide a model for other authors and publishers and undermine the clout of Amazon.com Inc.When the Harry Potter books finally went on sale in electronic form on March 27, it was as if Harry himself had cast the “Alohomora” … [Read more...]
ASCD, Pearson debut new online professional development tool
March 27, 2012 By
Principal Compass is a cloud-based program that helps increase leadership effectiveness for K-12 principals and their teams.The educational leadership organization ASCD (formerly known as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) has teamed up with Pearson to launch a new online … [Read more...]
Serious Games Association to Launch Directory
March 27, 2012 By
Looking for educational games to bring into your classroom? Soon, there will be a new place to discover them. The Serious Games Association will unveil a Serious Games Directory later this calendar year, a resource that will include listings for commercially available games and simulations … [Read more...]
Graduate school applicants use social media to bypass admissions offices
March 27, 2012 By
With the proliferation of social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, graduate school applicants can gain unfiltered insights on graduate school life, U.S. News reports. With that ease of access through free and increasingly sophisticated technological tools, graduate students … [Read more...]
