States tackle global competitiveness
Governors seek to boost math, science, and technology education in their State of the State addresses Read the Full Article
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Online courses under scrutiny
Hoping to avoid a showdown with lawmakers, the state Board of Education convened its own task force on Monday to recommend changes to online education following a scathing state audit that criticized some programs for being poorly supervised and ineffective.Read the Full Article
Copyright, Publishing, and Scholarship
The “Zwolle Group” Initiative for the Advancement of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Should States Mandate Online Learning?
In Keeping pace with K-12 online learning: A review of state level policy and practice, Watkins and Lewis (2006) reported, “As of September 2006, 38 states have either state-led online learning programs, significant policies regulating online education, or both.” (p. 6). In 2006, “Michigan passed a law creating an online learning experience requirement for high […]
U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General Launches New DVD: ‘Identity Theft: It’s Not Worth It’
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) today announced the release of its second DVD on the issue of identity theft in the student financial assistance arena.Read the Full Article
Defeat for For-Profit Model
he University of Illinois has been pushing for months to create a new campus dramatically different from the existing ones at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield. The new campus would be entirely online, and staffed almost entirely by adjuncts who would not report to regular academic departments. The new entity — the University of Illinois Global […]
Mass. uses web to help students prep for college
Boston.com reports that while Massachusetts high school students have rising MCAS passing rates and higher SAT scores than the national average, only about half of the state’s ninth graders start college and even fewer finish with a degree. Now, state leaders hope that a new online campaign and a growing partnership between K-12 and higher […]
U.K. pledges remote working for all students
ZDNet.co.uk reports that the British government has challenged schools, education organizations, and IT companies to create a system so that all of the United Kingdom’s students will be able to access the internet outside of school.Read the Full Article
Distance education system may be faltering [Turkey]
News reports claim that a new computerized system brought in to manage the national distance education scheme has cost hundreds of students their diplomasRead the Full Article
A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies
Remember the Communications Decency Act of the 1990s? This law sought to protect youth from legal adult pornography, but its language and imprecise implementation so overreached its goal that when the law was passed, a federal court granted an injunction that lasted until the Supreme Court determined that many of the act’s provisions were an […]
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