Common-Core Testing Clashes With Social-Media Monitoring - Education Week

A New Jersey high school student who posted a tweet about a question on a common-core test has unintentionally sparked a national controversy.



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Employers Are Integral to Career Tech Programs - Education Week

New CTE programs pose a new challenge for educators: how to form deeper, longer partnerships with businesses.



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Outside Groups Build Bridges Between School, Business - Education Week

Third-party entities are showing educators and businesses how to work together to shape new, more relevant career and technical education programs.



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Elite Private Schools Use Wide Range of Ed-Tech Strategies - Education Week

The approaches diverge from those taken by most of their public school counterparts, but experts suggest the tactics and strategies could be replicated.



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Online Testing - Education Week

Fewer than 30 percent of K-12 school technology leaders believe their district is ready for online assessments, according to an annual survey by the Consortium for School Networking.



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Robot Teaches Handwriting Via Student Role Reversal - Education Week

A robot from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne may be able to help students improve their cursive and boost their self-esteem—by letting them teach it how to write.



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Pearson, PARCC Knocked for Monitoring Students' Social Media - Education Week

An attempt to monitor students' social-media use to prevent the sharing of test information—initially flagged by a school superintendent in New Jersey—has generated a blast of criticism toward the PARCC assessment and at Pearson, the contractor hired to administer it.



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New Principles Aim to Guide Use, Safety of Student Data - Education Week

More than 30 groups representing school officials and educational data-use proponents have signed on to new principles related to student data.



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'Education Innovation Clusters' Aim to Improve Schools - Education Week

The regional partnerships among school districts, research organizations, private companies, and other groups are emerging around the world to address educational challenges.



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Fla. Testing Woes Blamed Partly on Cyberattacks - Education Week

The delays and disruptions that plagued Florida's online writing tests were partly caused by cyberattacks on its systems, the state schools chief says.



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Regardless of Their Titles, CAOs Set Tone for Academics - Education Week

Whether they're called assistant superintendents for teaching and learning, chief innovation officers, or curriculum coordinators, chief academic officers have one mission: academics.



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Chief Technology Officers Play Key Role in Curricular Issues - Education Week

Some school districts are testing new approaches to address a common challenge: how to get academic and technology departments to work more closely together.



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FCC Approves Policy of 'Net Neutrality' - Education Week

In a move to preserve an open Internet, the Federal Communications Commission voted last week along partisan lines to implement "net neutrality" rules to ensure equal treatment in how content is delivered by Internet service providers.



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L.A. Shifts Gears Over Computers-for-All-Students Policy - Education Week

The Los Angeles Unified district cannot afford to provide all its students with a digital computing device, interim Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines has announced.



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Education Technology - Education Week

By the next academic year, mobile devices will be available for 1-to-1 computing for half the K-12 student and teacher population in the United States, according to Futuresource Consulting Ltd., a research and forecasting company based in the United Kingdom.



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Study: Twitter Discourse Reveals Deeper Rifts on Common Core - Education Week

Researchers found that while social media gave parents a bigger voice in the debate, it also led to a "proxy war" over common standards.



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Digital-Simulation Game on U.S. Slave Experience Sparks Debate - Education Week

An award-winning, publicly funded digital learning game that asks middle school students to assume the role of a black slave in 1800s America is prompting debate about when and how to employ the power of interactive technology to teach about painful eras of history.



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