Now, it seems, even paper could go the same way, as one school in the US has announced it is to get rid of textbooks in favour of laptops. Around 350 students of the Empire High School, Arizona, will be loaned a laptop during the school year, with...
Did school ever matter? The last of my four children is finally out of the school system and on his way to university. School's out and so are the exam results. After 27 years and arm wrestling the system, I am at last free from any more high...
At the same time, one in 30 London school kids, the average size of a classroom, admitted bullying others online. Cam Matharu, technology programme manager at the NCH, the children's charity, told silicon.com: "It used to be that [bullying] stopped...
According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), there have been 25,707 agreements to provide federal funding to school districts or individual schools, and 3,902 agreements to libraries or library systems.
I reckon it's all because school's out. It happens every school vacation but I have never seen it so bad. Written in my home office and despatched to silicon.com from a free domestic wi-fi connection in a forest glade just outside Chelmsford UK
A plan to use SMS to combat youth knife crime is being trialled in schools in East London. The text informant scheme has been running for around a week in three schools in Tower Hamlets and is likely to continue until the end of the summer term.