The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has filed close to 1,000 subpoenas in the US District Court in Washington this month requesting information from educational institutions and ISPs on users of Kazaa, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service.
Follow-up investigations pointed towards an angry student considered "computer savvy", who had recently been punished by the discipline teacher for breaking school rules. The headmaster later lodged a report at the Penang district police...
The Cobb County School District, located in the Atlanta suburbs, is recommending that its school board pursue a deal with Apple to equip all teachers in the county, along with all high school and middle school students, with Apple laptops.
Some countries report a remarkable three to five per cent improvement in student grades year on year. We have now reached a situation where the linking of money to student placements and employment of academic staff seems to have bastardised many...
The scheme will cost the school $850 per laptop - a slight increase on the $500 to $600 Empire High spends on a set of textbooks for each pupil, Calvin Baker, superintendent of Vail Unified School District, told the Arizona Daily Star.
According to Emerson Park School head of IT Ralph Reid, student buy-in to the project was accomplished by surveying students' reactions to the portal and by setting up a newsletter called Student Voice.