Schools nationwide have been incorporating technology in the classroom to enhance the learning experience. One New York kindergarten teacher has taken the technology initiative a step further and now encourages her young students to create Twitter messages. Read more

Back in the 1990s, schools started offering a few online classes to teach Advanced Placement and foreign languages to high school students. Today, the trend has grown significantly with 30 states now allowing students to take all of their courses online. In the past few months, Virginia, Florida, Idaho and Georgia have all implemented online programs into mainstream schools.Read more

The day has come when all students in grades five to twelve in Munster School District in Indiana are now told to open their laptops instead of their textbooks by their teachers. The school district completed a $1.1 million overhaul to ensure that all of its 2,600 students were able to use laptops for their math and science lessons.Read more

As the FCC draws closer to the October 27 vote on Chairman Julius Genachowski’s plan to overhaul the Universal Service Fund (USF), four Democratic lawmakers urged the FCC to focus broadband Internet expansion efforts to improving access in crucial locations such as schools and health clinics.Read more

On Monday, the FCC introduced a new pilot program to expand technologies for students to learn beyond the classroom. "Learning On-The-Go" will provide nine million dollars to 20 schools and libraries for the 2011-2012 school year.Read more

A start-up site is shaping the way university students receive help on course work. Piazza provides a platform for students to post questions to their course page and receive responses and feedback from peers and instructors.Read more