With public concern over the launch of LA Unified’s iPad program showing no sign of letting up, Superintendent John Deasy will appear live tonight at 6pm on LAUSD-owned station KLCS, channel 58.  He’s slated to talk specifically about the tablets and take questions from viewers. You can call, tweet or email a question. To find out how,...

iPads are not the only technological gadget getting used inside LA Unified schools these days. A smartphone application called LAUSD Service Calls is enabling teachers, administrators, even parents to summon district personnel to fix all sorts of problems, such as graffiti, water leaks and broken tiles. The app functions on an iPhone, Blackberry and Android...

Los Angeles Unified will assemble a student committee to advise its response to the recent security breach of district-issued iPads by 185 high school students, Ron Chandler, the district’s chief information officer, said yesterday. The move is the district’s attempt to find a way to balance students’ desires to surf the web unfettered with the...

At least one LA Unified school board member was hardly shocked to learn that students piloting the district’s iPad program had found a way to break through the firewall. “Of course it happened,” Steve Zimmer told LA School Report, throwing his hands up in the air as he left an event at Hollywood High School. “Frankly,...

Via The Los Angeles Times | By Howard Blume LA Unified officials have a new problem on their hands – because of what LA Unified students have in their hands: iPads. A week after getting their new digital devices, nearly 300 students at Roosevelt High School compromised the security designed to block users from accessing such websites...

Photos courtesy of LAUSD LA Unified distributed the first wave of iPads yesterday to two elementary schools, Broadacres in Carson and Cimarron in Hawthorne. Over the next 18 months, every student in LAUSD will have one, according to district officials, who are spending nearly $1 billion on the effort. From this early look, so far...

When California’s new statewide tests are in place by the spring of 2015, an 11th grade student might be asked the following: “Pretend you are preparing a report for a congresswoman on the pros and cons of using nuclear power to generate electricity. Gather some evidence, then write an essay arguing for either using nuclear...

The new Common Core State Standards, now being phased in by California and 44 other states, are getting low grades from the American public, according to the 45th edition of the PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, the longest-running survey of American attitudes on education. “Americans’ mistrust of standardized tests and...