Features
Student Achievement
Program Uses Video to Teach Math, Physics
Virtual Nerd, a tutoring subscription service, uses online videos to teach concepts.
Teaching
Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning
Targeting students' individual needs could help build a kind of individualized education plan for every student.
Classroom Technology
Students Sound Off on School Tech Use
Teenagers offer their opinions on how schools could use technology more effectively.
Federal
Scholars Test Emotion-Sensitive Tutoring Software
Computer programs that can detect and respond to students' feelings aim to enhance the educational potential of tutoring technology.
Federal
States Struggle to Stitch Together Pre-K-20 Data
More states are taking strides to connect K-12 data systems with postsecondary institutions, but challenges remain.
School & District Management
Motives of 21st-Century-Skills Group Questioned
Critics charge that the Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a veiled attempt by technology companies to gain more influence over the classroom.
School & District Management
U.S. Solicits Input for New Ed-Tech Plan
Some people in the field are concerned about the lack of recommendations from educators for guiding the plan's development.
Classroom Technology
Maine 1-to-1 Effort Moves Forward
Despite budget shortfalls, about half the high schools in the state plan to issue laptops to students.
Classroom Technology
Netbook-Laptop Debate
Schools with 1-to-1 computing programs weigh the cost savings of netbooks versus the digital power of laptops.
IT Infrastructure & Management
The Digital Evolution of Video Surveillance
New Internet-based systems allow school officials to track movements in and out of buildings from desktop computers, but security experts warn against relying too much on the technology.
School Climate & Safety
Gradebooks Take Virtual Approach
Ed-tech administrators are spending more time evaluating a variety of electronic gradebook products and their capabilities.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Bandwidth Slowing You Down?
District leaders should prepare for stimulus funding for broadband telecommunications connections—and make sure they get a fair cut of it.
International
Global Competition: U.S. Students vs. International Peers
Are U.S. students' tech skills keeping up with their international peers?
IT Infrastructure & Management
Districts Dial Into the Internet to Modernize Phone Systems
Schools are switching to Voice-over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP, telephone technologies, but many are finding it still pays to have analog lines in place as a backup.