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Town Manager David Ames confirmed yesterday that the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has found in favor of members of a heavy metal group who claimed the town discriminated against them on religious grounds.

I gave a presentation this morning to the Florida Council of Independent Schools on adding value with web technologies rather than just throwing tech into schools for its own sake.

In more EDUCAUSE news, Moodlerooms , introduced its joule Learning Management Platform today.

I don't know what's scarier: my recent obsession with e-readers or the crazy Kindle nonsense flying about.

Montachusett Home Care Corporation of Leominster and Gardner recognized its longtime employees at a staff meeting earlier this month.

With the cold season moving in, I want to reassure my constituents that the ice storm of last December has not faded from my memory.

When I tell people I live in Royalston, they tend to stare blankly. "Boylston?," they say.

I've always been a bit skeptical about the idea of a Surface PC. I just haven't seen many interesting use cases in education that wouldn't be served as well or better by an interactive whiteboard or even a tablet PC of some sort.

Singapore, long considered a model for education and consistently scoring at the top of international tests , particularly in math and science, has announced that its Ministry of Education is adopting Google Apps for Education.

A Rhode Island man who shouted racial slurs at a Hasidic Jew Tuesday night later led police on a chase, threw a loaded shotgun from a car window and charged at officers who finally subdued him with a stun gun and arrested him, Wareham police said.

A Rhode Island man who was seen taunting a Hasidic Jew with racial slurs later charged officers and was subsequently subdued with a stun gun and arrested Tuesday night, according to a report by the Wareham Police Department.

A while ago I posted here about a really slick tool called Edmodo . Essentially, Edmodo is a Twitter-like microblogging platform with grouping, calendaring, and assignment functionality built in.

After fleeing the Winchendon Police Department last night while being booked on a charge of receiving stolen property, a 23-year-old Winchendon man apparently thought better of his decision and turned himself in to police this morning.

My name is Michael Helman. I am the birth father of an adoptee. She was born in November 1976 in Worcester, MA.

The family of Devon Wright, the 11-year-old girl who was swept away while playing near the Millers River Sunday, issued a statement yesterday thanking local and state emergency workers and others in the community for their efforts and support in dealing with the tragedy.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 8:45 pm US/Eastern Reporting Peg Rusconi "My Trevor is a darling 10-year-old boy who has complex medical special needs from being born premature," said Karen Zablonski, whose son has cerebral palsy and is legally blind and requires round the clock care.

Most of us have probably read Neuromancer , the canonical work by William Gibson, the loose basis for the Matrix movies, and, arguable, the first major book of the cyberpunk genre.

Eyebrows were raised when Edward O. Wilson took an ant, crushed it and held it up to his nose.

'Sudiev.' Members of Central Massachusetts' close-knit Lithuanian community will gather, 'with God,' for the last time this weekend for a regularly scheduled Sunday Mass at St.

After an evening of talking with everyone from Canonical to Pasco to CTL, it's become very clear that there are a lot of people working very hard to make the Classmate PC far more than just another netbook.