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eSchool News February 2009
In the February Issue:
Tech-Savvy Superintendent Awards
Meet 10 senior school district executives who understand technology's power to transform education.
eSN Special Feature
Some virtual-campus initiatives have floudered, while…
Keeping careful documentation of grant expenditures will keep you out of trouble
A few weeks ago, I participated in a webinar that discussed A-133 audits. For those of you who are not familiar with this term, Circular A-133 is the document that…
Online psych students outperform those in lecture hall class
Most sections of Psychology 101 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fit the popular image of a college class: Hundreds of students pack into a lecture hall twice a week and…
New Jersey schools won’t require online classes … at least, not yet
New Jersey education officials are working on an ambitious redesign of the state's public high schools that is intended to better prepare students for college and the work force in…
Google glitch labels the entire internet as malware
An alarming glitch that plagued Google's search engine on Jan. 31 was blamed on human error, PC Magazine reports--but it raises questions about the danger of relying too heavily on…
Millions of books, but no card catalog
Aided by a recent class-action settlement, Google's Book Search project promises to transform the way information is collected: who controls the most books, who gets access to those books, and…
Data breaches cost $6.6 million on average, survey finds
According to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, it costs $6.6 million on average when an organization suffers a data breach, and more than $200 per compromised record, CNET…
Technology empowers differentiated instruction
Although many educators realize technology's enormous potential to help them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students' needs, abilities, or learning styles, it might be…
News groups seek webcast in file-sharing case
Fourteen news organizations, including the Associated Press and the New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in a music downloading…
K-State admits data security lapse
Kansas State University is notifying 45 students who were enrolled in an agricultural economics class in spring 2001 that some of their personal information was inadvertently exposed on the internet…