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Siding against Google, Mississippi's highest court has refused to halt a privacy lawsuit brought against the company by Attorney General Jim Hood.
A group of psychologists say kids are suffering from "hidden manipulation techniques" that companies like Facebook and Twitter use.
Some tracking scripts may be harmless. But others are designed to recognize I.P. addresses and embed cookies that collect information prized by advertisers.
Kids use Internet-connected devices all the time, but many do not understand how to keep these safe and secure.
More teenagers are getting news and information from them.
College-planning surveys give a peek into the opaque and little-regulated market of data-mining of minors.
Judy Allen Dodson remembers reading The Magic Tree House series to her seven-year-old son when he asked, “Mommy, how come I don’t see me? Any children…
Co-authored with Megan Fromm Last week, after spending 30 hours observing a high school journalism classroom, freelance writer and editor (and PBS MediaShift editorial assistant) Angela Washeck gave a first-person analysis of how today’s students are producing media. The product of high school media classes, in many cases a yearbook or newspaper, is no more […]
Source: 2011 Scholastic Journalism Census A new study reveals that while student media presence remains strong, only one-third of schools surveyed…
Fewer resources, lack of interest and the Internet have led to fewer high school newspapers in the city’s public schools.
In just six months, an innovative partnership between Flipboard and the Journalism Education Association has led to 100 new pieces of digital journalism by high school students and more than 2,500 followers to a digital magazine to showcase the best scholastic journalism in the country. “It was exciting to get published by a broader national organization and […]
Having survived my senior year at Palo Alto High School, I think I can safely say that thus far in my education, the most useful thing I have done to develop my intellectual vitality has been joining my high school magazine, Verde. Although most high schools focus solely on a yearbook or a newspaper, Paly […]
The Gates Foundation’s big-data experiment wasn’t just a failure. It did real harm.
Student lists are commercially available for purchase on the basis of ethnicity, affluence, religion, lifestyle, awkwardness, and even a perceived or predicted
Last October Connecticut’s leading education groups and associations issued a joint ultimatum to vendors that use or collect student data: Comply with ...
Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital ...