Features
IT Infrastructure & Management
Build It Better
District Web sites are a gateway and a guide for educators, parents, and students, but designing them to work for everyone is challenging.
Student Well-Being
Who Are You?
Companies verify student personal information via schools to protect children and teenagers from online predators.
Assessment
Assessment Connection Inc.
Because of increasingly affordable technology and wider access to high-speed broadband Internet connections, more companies in the computer-based-assessment industry are devising ways to deliver tests online.
Ed-Tech Policy
Obama Links Ed Tech to Economic Growth
The President-elect pledges to put more computers in classrooms and expand broadband access to schools and homes.
Curriculum
Opinion
Open-Content Options
In a recent online chat, Lisa A. Petrides, the president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, which researches and supports the use of open content, answered questions on this topic from educators across the country.
Curriculum
The Open-Content Movement
A small but growing movement of K-12 teachers are latching on to educational resources that are "open," or free for others to use, change, and republish on Web sites that promote sharing.
Curriculum
Digital Persona
For educators who think real life does not offer enough opportunities to practice their profession, there is 'Second Life.'
Education
Disruptive Innovation
Technology-based forces of “disruptive innovation” are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn—with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to a new book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries.
Classroom Technology
'Credit Recovery'
Under pressure to raise graduation rates, some high schools are turning to online courses to help faltering students revive their academic careers and retrieve the credits they need to earn their diplomas.
Education Funding
Dollars & Sense
Ed-tech leaders are employing creative tactics to cut IT costs and save programs.
IT Infrastructure & Management
IT Experts Turn to 'Virtualization' As a Money-Saving Approach
A growing number of schools are turning to an IT method called “virtualization” to save money and operate in a more environmentally friendly way.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Open-Content Licensing
As the movement for "open" education resources continues to grow, encouraging educators to share online curricula and materials for free, it's become vital for ed-tech leaders and classroom teachers to understand the different types of licenses that make the process legal and safe.
Teaching Profession
NEA, AFT Report Outlines Ed-Tech Problems
Though a growing number of schools and classrooms have access to computers and the Internet, much of it has not resulted in significant changes in the way students are taught, concludes a new report.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Friend or Foe? Balancing the Good and Bad of Social-Networking Sites
With the advent and rapid growth of social-networking sites, the result is that school leaders are being forced to deal with a host of unsettled and even unsavory issues.