Your school’s one-to-one program now has laptops for every student. Check. All of your learning materials are digitized and computer accessible. Check. The teachers have all gone through professional training to take advantage of all the new tech possibilities in the classroom. Check. Your modern learning environment is ready to go. Nope. Transformation in the…

Although school districts around the country are finalizing their applications for the last year in the current five-year E-rate funding cycle, the government hasn’t yet announced how the program’s funding mechanism will work going forward. E-rate, the common name for the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, provides K–12 schools with funding…

How great is the security challenge that schools and school districts face? A 2018 report by SecurityScorecard gave the education sector an “F” for cybersecurity. Cybercriminals attempted 4 billion attacks — the majority of which were phishing scams — on school computer systems in Kentucky in just one year, the state Department of Education’s CIO…

Those of us of a certain age share memories of the classroom overhead projector: the wet erase markers; the crank that provided a seemingly endless supply of fresh transparencies; the teacher moving the cart closer and farther away from the screen to bring the image into focus. Projectors have come a long way in recent…