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Philadelphia, PA—Dr. Kurt Steinhaus, new president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), challenged all educators to become stronger advocates for funding of education technology locally and nationally at the opening of the 2005 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).Read the Full Story
Educational technology leaders are applauding yesterday’s decision by a Senate subcommittee to provide $425 million in funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) federal block-grant program next year.Read the Full Story
A Pittsburgh-area school district lost its bid yesterday to recover tuition it paid to a Pennsylvania cyber school to educate U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s children, who live primarily in Virginia.Read the Full Story
Arlington, Virginia 7/12/2005“A hard deadline to end analog television broadcasts will bring needed certainty to the DTV transition,” said Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) President and CEO Gary Shapiro in testimony delivered today before a congressional committee. Shapiro made his comments before a hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee examining the transition to digital television […]
One would expect that the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, testifying before a Senate subcommittee considering the CPB’s 2006 budget, would focus on the reasons for supporting its full budget allocation, rather than assailing the “bias” of a journalist who no longer moderates the news program with which Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson seems obsessed.Read […]
Abstract>Internet telephony — or Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) — has the potential to transform the world of voice communications more profoundly than anything since the invention of the telephone itself. As telecommunications incumbents and a range of new entrants begin rolling out commercial VOIP services, policymakers around the world are grappling with the regulatory […]
LOS ANGELES, July 9 (AP) – Officials at the University of Southern California say they will contact everyone who has used the university’s online application system in the past eight years to warn them that a hacker may have been able to read their files.Read the Full Story
Last year, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office decided to sue an institution its officials called a “diploma mill,†after Colby Nolan, their undercover student, got his master’s degree in business administration. The fact that Colby is a pet cat bolstered their case.Read the Full Story
As lawmakers consider ending analog television in 2008, the biggest question in the debate remains–who cares?Read the Full Story
Children have presented Tony Blair with their own list of demands for creating a better world, to mark the start of the G8 summit at Gleneagles.Read the Full Story
