Digital Rights Group Alleges Google Invades Student Privacy - Education Week

Google is being accused of invading the privacy of students using laptop computers powered by the Internet company's Chrome operating system.

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Districts Struggle to Judge Ed-Tech Pilot Projects - Education Week

A study suggests that school officials and technology developers often fail to set clear standards for gauging the success of those trial runs and for gathering teacher and student feedback.

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Districts Still Struggling to Equip Schools With High-Speed Internet - Education Week

Cost and rural settings are among the barriers as districts strive to bring fast broadband access to schools, according to a report from the Consortium for School Networking.

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Technology Fed Growth in Formative Assessment - Education Week

Education-technology tools have made it easier for teachers to keep tabs on students' understanding.

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Cybercharter Students Fall Far Behind on Academic Measures, New Study Says - Education Week

The first national study of online charter schools found that the schools generate dramatically weaker academic growth than their brick-and-mortar counterparts.

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Digital Badges - Education Week

Digital badges are being widely adopted for students, but could the same principle be applied to professional development for teachers?

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Facebook Comments Land Cafeteria Workers in Trouble - Education Week

A federal lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of two Indiana school cafeteria workers who were disciplined after posting concerns about school spending on social media.

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First Lady Launches Site to Help College-Bound - Education Week

Michelle Obama unveiled a new social-media site last week where teenagers can swap practical information and stories about continuing education after high school.

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Snapchat and Disappearing-Message Apps Vex Schools - Education Week

A recent controversy in California's Fresno Unified district involving Cyber Dust, founded by billionaire Mark Cuban, highlights the new challenges.

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MacArthur Foundation Launches Nonprofit to Scale Up Digital Learning - Education Week

The new organization, named Collective Shift, aims to connect schools, businesses, libraries, museums, and city leaders in efforts to build new "ecosystems of learning."

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Educators Hope Congress Provides Clarity, Support on Privacy Issues - Education Week

Eight federal bills, amendments, or provisions related to student-data privacy have been introduced in 2015.

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Schools, Government Agencies Move to Share Student Data - Education Week

Amid an ongoing debate over the use of student data, K-12 systems have quietly begun linking children's educational records with information from other government agencies.

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Threat of Data-Privacy Litigation Fuels District Insurance Purchases - Education Week

As more and more large, well-known companies—such as Home Depot and Target—fall victim to cyberattacks, school districts are realizing they could be next.

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Lessons Learned From Security Breaches - Education Week

The problem is school systems often lack specific plans for dealing with data breaches once they occur, creating logistical and public relations challenges.

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Math Learning - Education Week

Using a word-problem app to talk about mathematics at home once a week can boost math achievement, particularly for students with parents who dread the subject.

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Microsoft's Commitment to Data Privacy Questioned - Education Week

Privacy experts are raising the alarm over what they see as overly aggressive data collection in the company's newly unveiled operating system, Windows 10.

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L.A. Reaches Tentative Pact on Troubled Digital Plan - Education Week

A tentative $6.4 million settlement with two major technology providers was reached, according to the superintendent of the Los Angeles school district.

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News Corp. Sells Amplify to Joel Klein, Other Executives - Education Week

The beleaguered digital education division that News Corp. invested $1 billion in since 2010 was sold on Sept. 30 to a team of 11 Amplify executives.

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Arizona Board Sues State Schools Chief - Education Week

The Arizona board of education has followed through on its promise to sue to force state schools chief Diane Douglas to give remote computer access to board investigators.

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'Maker' Movement Takes Steps to Build 1-to-1 Environments - Education Week

Some in the "maker" movement are looking to start a 1-to-1 trend in schools akin to the push to put a digital device in the hands of every student.

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Training Gains a Toehold for Instructional Aides in Special Education - Education Week

Crucial for assuring that school inclusion takes place for students with disabilities, these workers have long been left out of the loop on professional development.

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Q&A: How Tech Can Improve Youngsters' Reading Skills - Education Week

Two early learning experts outline how they want to see devices, apps, and software treated as tools to foster better reading interactions between children and adults.

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Long Beach District Sets Course to Personalize Teacher PD - Education Week

The closely watched California district recently launched a "myPD" platform to help teachers select their own training paths.

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Video Gaining as Key Tool in Teacher-Learning Plans - Education Week

As platforms evolve, more districts are using video to boost teacher collaboration and refine classroom practice.

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Online Credit Recovery in Need of Improvement, Study Says - Education Week

School districts need to make changes to their online credit-recovery programs to focus greater attention on content mastery and evidence of learning gains.

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As ELL Tests Move Online, Educators Hope for Better Gauge of Skills - Education Week

Most states will shift to new, computer-based assessments to measure their ELLs' English-language proficiency this school year.

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Florida Testing Disruptions Caused by Foreign Hackers - Education Week

A cyberattack that disrupted Florida's statewide exams was vast, but the culprits are "likely based somewhere outside the United States," and law-enforcement officials said last week that they have closed their six-month investigation without suspects or a motive.

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Education Technology - Education Week

Countries where 15-year-olds use computers the most in classrooms scored the worst on digital reading and computer-based math tests, according to an analysis of 2012 results from the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

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Facebook Moves Into 'Personalized Learning' With Charter Network - Education Week

The social media giant is bringing its engineering talents to the K-12 arena by teaming up with the Summit Public Schools on a personalized learning system.

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Probing the Impact of Parent-Teacher Digital Communication - Education Week

Academic researchers are beginning to study what kinds of tech-based exchanges between educators and families bring the biggest academic payoff for students.

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Ambitious Initiative Blends Adaptive Tech, Open Ed. Resources - Education Week

The creation of an online platform by ed-tech company Knewton marks the most aggressive attempt yet to mix adaptive tools with open content.

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New Report Finds Ongoing iPad and Technology Problems at L.A. Unified - Education Week

Had things gone according to plan, every public school student in Los Angeles would be working on his or her own iPad by now and textbooks would be largely a thing of the past.

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Timeline: Amplify's Big Flop - Education Week

When global media giant News Corp. pushed its way into the ed-tech market, the company vowed to transform classrooms and disrupt the K-12 marketplace. Five years later, Amplify, the company's much-hyped education division, is up for sale.

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Police Probe Computer Hack of Calif. Charter School - Education Week

The message said that Anonymous had gathered documents exposing the "manipulation and greed" surrounding Clayton Valley Charter High School.

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'De-Identifying' Student Data Is Key for Protecting Privacy - Education Week

Schools and the companies that work with them are being urged to do a better job clearing personal information from student records that are shared with outside organizations.

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Computer Science - Education Week

Principals and superintendents underestimate how much support there is among parents for teaching K-12 computer science in school, according to a Gallup survey.

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Big Hype, Hard Fall for News Corp.'s $1 Billion Ed-Tech Venture - Education Week

Amplify, the education company supported by Rupert Murdoch, is deeply in the red and on the auction block after its ambitious vision failed to materialize.

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Minecraft Fueling Creative Ideas, Analytical Thinking in K-12 Classrooms - Education Week

One of the world's most popular video games has made significant inroads into K-12 classrooms for teaching everything from city planning to physics.

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Crowded Field of Online News Sites Focuses on Education Issues - Education Week

National and local online outlets are offering a wealth of specialized content on K-12 topics, some striving for journalistic objectivity, others pushing an unvarnished point of view.

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Chalkbeat Wields Web to Boost Local Ed.-News Coverage - Education Week

The four-site news operation is among the next generation of outlets drilling deep into local education issues.

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Obama Seeks to Provide Poor Families With Internet - Education Week

President Barack Obama has announced a new program aimed at providing some 275,000 low-income families living in public housing with access to affordable high-speed Internet connections.

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As McGraw-Hill Education Leaves State Testing, Market Thrives for Classroom Assessments - Education Week

McGraw-Hill Education recently sold off its longstanding businesses in summative and "shelf" testing, in a move that underscores growing demand for other forms of assessments.

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Freedom to Experiment Presents Challenges for School Innovation Networks - Education Week

Giving small networks of schools autonomy to try new approaches with technology requires a delicate balance of logistical freedom and district technical support.

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Technology - Education Week

The U.S. education system isn't adequately preparing students to use technology for problem-solving, according to a newly released analysis.

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How Digital Learning Is Reshaping Education - Education Week

Leadership, professional development, and hands-on learning were on the minds of nearly 20,000 educational technology enthusiasts who attended the ISTE annual conference in Philadelphia.

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District Takes Modular Approach to Lesson Creation - Education Week

An district in Orange County, Fla. curates content from various commercial partners to use in its lessons.

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Audio: Teens, Tech, and Homework Habits - Education Week

Larenz Davis, 15, and his mother, LaToya Staten, talk about the benefits and challenges of teenagers using multiple digital devices to complete homework assignments. Larenz and his brother, Cameron, use a diverse roster of tech tools at home.

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N.Y. 'Open' Education Effort Draws Users Nationwide - Education Week

An online library of academic materials created in New York state to align with the common-core standards has generated a vast audience.

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Multistate Effort Brings 'Open' Content to Broad Audience - Education Week

The K-12 OER Collaborative is supporting the creation of open educational resources, which can be built upon by educators as well as for-profit and nonprofit entities.

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Digital Games - Education Week

Younger students get the most out of digital learning games when the game combines elements of both the real and virtual worlds, finds new research.

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