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Why Educators Aren't Sold On Video Games

| Jackie Mader | Posted 11.25.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Video games are increasingly popular learning tools in classrooms, but ...

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National Labor Conference Focuses Seeks To Improve Teaching Profession

AP | DAN SEWELL | Posted 05.22.2012 | Home
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CINCINNATI -- Educators including the U.S. secretary of education, teacher union leaders and school administrators will focus this week on ways to tra...

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Students, MySpace and the First Amendment

Lyle Denniston | Posted 03.20.2012 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Tinker v. Des Moines School District, National School Boards Association, Cyber Bullying, Politics News
Lyle Denniston

It has long appeared to be a basic legal principle that, while public school officials are the masters of their own domain, they generally do not have authority elsewhere -- unless they can show that off-campus activity directly implicates the operation of the schools.

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Should School Officials Be Liable For Online Bullying?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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In the latest status update on bullying, schools could now be held liable for students' Facebook and out-of-school harassment. Department of Educati...

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