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Dude, forget your Dell: Campus drops student laptop program
Mount St. Mary's University will be making some dramatic changes to its student laptop program, reports the Mountain Echo, the campus newspaper. Incoming students will no longer pay the $1,400…
Officials: Craigslist doesn’t protect kids
An undercover investigation shows Craigslist is not protecting children from online predators, reports the Detroit News. …
Facebook to let users give input on policies
Facebook is trying its hand at democracy: The fast-growing online hangout, whose more than 175 million worldwide users could form the world's sixth-largest country, said Feb. 26 that those users…
Utah to buy educational technology with stimulus funding
Utah will use some of its federal stimulus money to pay for high-tech teaching software and new computer labs in the state's poorest schools as part of an effort to…
iTunes University: Better than the real thing?
According to a new study, college students who watch their lectures from their dorm room via podcast might do better on their next exam than those who attend the lecture…
Colleges see donations decline
The legions of fundraisers colleges hired during the boom years have a new mission for these tough economic times: Go easy on the hard sell. Talk about financial aid, not…
TCEA 2009 aims to accelerate change
At the Texas Computer Education Association's 29th annual conference earlier this month, educators heard an impassioned plea to open their students' eyes to the world around them--and were urged to…
Fed FY2010 budget outline emphasizes ed
Education--and especially higher education for all students--is a critical area of focus in President Obama's proposed budget for next year, which he outlined for Congress in a 146-page plan on…
Microsoft shows off a host of research projects
A prototype thesaurus that offers synonyms based on the context of a word in a sentence, rather than just the word itself, was one of about 40 research projects Microsoft…
Fired superintendent used school eMail account to solicit sex
The Glynn County, Ga., school superintendent, who was fired last week, had used his school system BlackBerry and eMail address to seek sex from people posting classified ads on the…