A joint school district in New Hampshire is taking advantage of E-rate discounts to add fiber, Internet and voice services in its schools.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/21/15
Technologies like single sign-on are convenient, but do they compromise the security and privacy of students' data?
Mansfield Independent School District in Texas is implementing an all-fiber optic network to provide its 33,000 students and 4,200 staff members with data, video and voice service.
THE Journal's readers have chosen their favorite and most revered software and hardware — tools that help them, as teachers, administrators and tech leaders, fulfill the mission of education.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/29/15
Council Rock School District in Pennsylvania has implemented an integrated system to help IT staff identify and resolve network security issues for its 15 schools, 13,000 students and staff, and 5,000 devices.
While 8 in 10 high school students in a Harris Poll said that they own a smartphone. the largest number (38 percent) said they prefer laptops and Chromebooks for learning.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 09/21/15
School districts and the federal government are addressing the “mobility gap” between students who have 24/7 broadband access and those who don’t.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 09/21/15
Lamar County School District in Mississippi has implemented 802.11ac wireless network infrastructure throughout its schools and auxiliary buildings to support its expanding 1-to-1 technology initiative, bring-your-own-device initiative and integration with Google Classroom.
Harmony Public Schools (HPS) in Texas plans to upgrade all 46 of its campuses and the HPS Central Office to dedicated fiber optic Internet service with managed security services to provide each school with Internet access speeds of one gigabit per second.
According to a CoSN survey, 82 percent of school districts don't have a plan to address students' Internet access outside of school. That needs to change.
- By Keith R. Krueger, Marie Bjerede
- 09/10/15