Like many districts, the Southeast Polk Community School District in Iowa monitors the web usage of students on district-provided computers for inappropriate activity, and uses a service that sends emails to parents summarizing student internet search history. This raises some difficult issues because we know that young people need space away from adults for healthy development.

Dayton Public Schools' Challenger Learning Center in Dayton, Ohio, is one of 44 centers around the globe aimed at engaging students in "hands-on exploration and discovery opportunities that strengthen knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."

DA's national Future of Education Technology Conference announces the call for proposals for FETC 2020, to be held January 14-17, 2020 in Miami.

A roundup of three recently published works that may be of interest to K-12 chief information officers.