More Students—But Few Girls, Minorities—Took AP Computer Science Exams - Education Week

While the numbers of students taking Advanced Placement computer science exams skyrocketed in 2014, participation for many groups of students remained low, an Education Week analysis shows.



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Millions of Student Records Sold in Bankruptcy Case - Education Week

The sale of ConnectEDU Inc. this year played out on a public stage, and raised concerns among school leaders and privacy experts about how its considerable trove of student data would be used.



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Science Education - Education Week

About 60 percent of job openings require basic science, technology, engineering, and math literacy, and 42 percent require advanced STEM skills, according to a new survey of 126 chief executive officers.



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1-to-1 Technology Can Benefit Instruction for Kindergartners

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FBI Seizes District Records for L.A.'s iPad Purchase - Education Week

FBI agents have seized records related to the Los Angeles district's massive purchase of digital devices, in the latest and most dramatic sign of trouble sweeping over the technology project.



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FCC Chairman Urges Boost in Funding for E-Rate - Education Week

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has proposed a major increase in the amount of money flowing to the E-rate program.



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Digital Education - Education Week

Contrary to conventional wisdom, teachers use technology more frequently than their students, according to a recent study.



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Big Districts Pressure Publishers on Digital-Content Delivery - Education Week

As a condition of doing business, the districts are demanding a universal technical format they believe can help educators manage digital content and personalize instruction.



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Ed-Tech Vendors Often in Dark on District Needs, Study Shows - Education Week

Many districts use needs assessments and pilot tests to set ed-tech priorities, but those efforts tend to produce little useful information for companies, the report says.



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Dissecting Districts' Ed-Tech Buying - Education Week

A newly released study probes the frustrations that digital developers and K-12 officials have with various aspects of district procurement.



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Playing High-Action Video Games May Speed Up Learning, Studies Say - Education Week

New research suggests that playing games like Halo and Call of Duty may help students react faster—but not necessarily more impulsively.



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Digital Access - Education Week

Enrollment in state-run online schools is on the rise, though broad gaps remain in the availability of digital resources and tools across the country's large, midsized, and small school systems, a new report concludes.



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District Technology Chief in Los Angeles Resigns - Education Week

Following the botched rollout of an ambitious plan to provide iPads to students and an ongoing software fiasco that has undermined class scheduling and the ability to verify the accuracy of students' transcripts, the chief information officer of the 651,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District has stepped down.



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Chromebooks Gain in K-12 Market, Challenging iPads - Education Week

While Apple's iPads remain dominant in the K-12 tablet market, Chromebook laptops have made gains in school districts, research indicates.



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More Black Students Expelled Over Social-Media Use in Ala. - Education Week

The Huntsville, Ala., district expelled 14 students last year based on the findings of a private contractor who monitored students' social-media activity as part of greater school security efforts, according to a review by The Huntsville Times. Twelve of them were black, drawing concerns that the program unfairly targeted African-American students.



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Chromebooks Gaining Popularity in School Districts - Education Week

The low-cost, cloud-based laptops from Google accounted for nearly one-third of all mobile digital-device sales to U.S. schools in the first half of 2014.



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Perceived Threat to Net Neutrality Sparks Furor - Education Week

The Federal Communications Commission, weighing new rules, received a flood of responses from educators and educational technology companies urging the agency to preserve the open Internet for schools.



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Mulling 'Social Constructivism' and Computer-Based Learning

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Ind. Education Department Website Hacked 2nd Time - Education Week

The Indiana Department of Education has taken down its website again after it was hacked for the second time in four days.



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Education Technology - Education Week

The New Media Consortium finds similar and evolving European and American views about how teachers should be presenting and delivering content in the digital age, across the 28 member nations of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union.



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Digital Tools Predict College Admissions, Link Employers - Education Week

The professional networking site LinkedIn now features University Finder, a service that allows users to identify colleges that are popular hiring spots for certain companies.



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Los Angeles to Review All Seniors' Records - Education Week

The Los Angeles school district is reviewing every senior's transcript in the wake of computer problems that have messed up class schedules for some or produced faulty transcripts needed for college.



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La. shelves plans for computerized tests in spring - Education Week

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E-Learning - Education Week

Digital learning games have officially gone mainstream, with nearly three-quarters of K-8 teachers saying they use them for classroom instruction, according to a new national survey.



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N.Y.C. Schools to Open Doors to Student Cellphones - Education Week

The country's largest school district plans to end its ban on student cellphones in schools, following the path of a growing number of districts.



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Ed. Startups Get Money, Advice From Federal Program - Education Week

Operating within the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, the Small Business Innovation Research program has backed the development of dozens of ed-tech companies.



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School Researchers Use Computer Models to 'Field-Test' Ideas - Education Week

Increasingly detailed computer models of student behavior and learning provide new testing grounds for classroom interventions.



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La. District Sells Computers Containing Student Data - Education Week

At least two computers from a defunct charter school organization in New Orleans that were sold at auction a week ago contained names, birthdates, and Social Security numbers for 210 students.



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STEM Preparation - Education Week

Opportunities to learn STEM subjects are lacking at rural schools in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, according to a new report.



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Parents May Be Liable for Fake Facebook Page - Education Week

A Georgia appeals court ruled last week that parents of a 7th grader who created a fake Facebook account mocking a classmate are potentially liable for negligence for not forcing him to close the account once they learned of it.



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'Big Data' Research Effort Faces Student-Privacy Questions - Education Week

A coalition of prominent research universities is receiving federal support to redesign and scale up a massive repository for analyzing learning and behavioral data.



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Adaptive Testing Shaping Instruction - Education Week

In some districts, the uses of adaptive testing extend beyond assessment, as teachers use test results to modify lessons and stage interventions for students of different abilities.



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Student Data Wasn't Wiped From Auctioned Computers - Education Week

At least two computers from a defunct charter school organization in New Orleans that were sold at auction a week ago contained names, birthdates and social security numbers for 210 students.



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What Is 'Personalized Learning'? Educators Seek Clarity - Education Week

Education technology advocates, philanthropies, and others are trying to create a clearer definition of what qualifies as "personalized learning," one of the most popular terms in education today.



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Push for 'Learner Profiles' Stymied by Barriers - Education Week

The goal is to generate comprehensive digital portraits of each student’s strengths, weaknesses, and preferences to provide them with customized academic content.



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Personalized Learning Pits Data Innovators Against Privacy Advocates - Education Week

One of the biggest tensions emerging around the growth of personalized learning centers on questions about how to use and protect sensitive student information.



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District's Ambitious Personalized Learning Effort Shows Progress - Education Week

A South Carolina school district hopes to replicate the initial success at a middle school, where test scores, student engagement, and teacher attendance have improved.



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Skills' Gaps for Online Reading Linked to Family Income - Education Week

A study of 7th graders from two Connecticut school districts found a significant achievement gap for the ability to read information critically on the Internet.



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Groups Honing Real-Time Teacher-Performance Exam - Education Week

The Educational Testing Service, with the help of a nonprofit specializing in teacher practice, is planning to release a new assessment capable of measuring teacher-candidates' ability to execute key aspects of instruction.



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Okla. Assessments in a State of Uncertainty - Education Week

The state is scrambling to hire a company to administer winter tests used for high school graduation after McGraw-Hill Education CTB withdrew from a proposed contract.



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Ed-Tech Industry Weighs Impact of New Data-Privacy Laws - Education Week

A California law is one of the most aggressive attempts to balance the promise of digital learning technologies with concerns about the privacy of children's sensitive information.



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Oversight Panel Refuses to Fund New L.A. Computers - Education Week

The Los Angeles school district's bond-oversight panel has rejected a move by officials to spend an additional $42 million on new computers.



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Education Measures on Ballot in 11 States - Education Week

School funding, class size, and governance are among the issues facing voters on various education-focused state initiatives, referenda, and amendments.



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Common-Core Testing Contracts Favor Big Vendors - Education Week

Most of the biggest contracts being awarded by the two main consortia creating online common-core assessments are flowing to some of the most familiar industry players.



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In Pennsylvania, 'Snow Day' Could Be an Endangered Species - Education Week

Snow days may soon be a thing of the past in Pennsylvania.



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Los Angeles Settles Suit With Data-Software Vendor - Education Week

The Los Angeles Unified School District has paid $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit with the vendor of a software system designed to track attendance, grades, schedules, and other student data, officials said.



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Peek Inside a Learning Management System - Education Week

An example of how an LMS functions can be seen through the system developed by Schoology, a New York City-based provider whose system has over 6 million users in K-12 districts and universities worldwide.



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Pressure on LMS Companies to Provide Quality PD - Education Week

The trick for educators is to grasp which LMS features will help their students while also acquiring the skills to juggle myriad academic and managerial duties.



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Tech Advances Fuel LMS Identity Crisis - Education Week

Big questions are facing school district leaders across the country about how a learning management system should best fit into the larger ed-tech ecosystem.



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Ed-Tech Leaders Outline Their LMS Needs - Education Week

Five school district technology leaders talk about the lessons they have learned about how to choose and use learning management systems in smart ways.



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