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School librarians are fighting to stay relevant
The job now spans media centers, makerspaces, and information literacy — and the numbers say the field is holding steady, not disappearing.
By Zara Nasser • October 8, 2026
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EdTech News reports what ships and what breaks: product launches, district and national contracts, service outages, privacy incidents and discontinued platforms. Items are dated and sourced to filings or company statements. Read by school technology leads and teachers who need warning before a tool disappears mid-term.
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Expert witnesses: the people juries lean on
How courts decide who counts as an expert, and why two specialists can swear to opposite things.
By Kara Williams • September 29, 2026
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How to find an expert online and check they're real
A plain checklist for telling credentialed specialists from confident amateurs before you act on their advice.
By Kara Williams • September 29, 2026
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When experts disagree: how to decide whom to trust
Conflicting specialist opinions are normal. A few checks separate the claims worth acting on from the noise.
By Zara Nasser • September 21, 2026
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2U's bankruptcy restructuring is done — and the OPM model it built shrinks on
The online-program manager emerged from Chapter 11 in late 2024 with debt cut and owners changed; the university partnerships that made it big keep expiring.
By Zara Nasser • August 24, 2026
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What FERPA actually lets edtech vendors do with student data
The law doesn't ban vendor access to school records. It makes the district the gatekeeper — and most of what happens next depends on a contract clause few people read.
By Zara Nasser • August 15, 2026
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How states are writing AI disclosure rules for classrooms
Every state introduced AI legislation in 2025, but in education most of the binding work is still guidance and task forces — and disclosure expectations are being written into district policy templates first.
By Kara Williams • August 1, 2026
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Filtering and VPN rules on school devices at home
The same take-home Chromebook that satisfies CIPA on school Wi-Fi carries a moving mix of law, policy, and family expectation into the living room.
By Kara Williams • July 9, 2026
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What actually changes when a free edtech tool goes paid
The pricing change is the visible event; the quiet ones are the data terms, the feature walls, and the teacher who quietly rebuilds their course in something else.
By Zara Nasser • June 16, 2026
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Why cyberinsurance now decides school technology budgets
Cyberinsurance questionnaires have quietly become the real technology plan for many districts — setting MFA, backup, and staffing priorities the board never voted on.
By Kara Williams • May 25, 2026