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Texas has not endorsed this agreement or a similar one reached in January among the other states, the District of Columbia, and MySpace. Texas officials have said they want quicker action on verifying users' ages and identities than the pacts guarantee.

Among other changes, Facebook has agreed to: • Ensure that companies offering services on its site comply with its safety and privacy guidelines. • Keep tobacco and alcohol ads from users too young to purchase those products. • Remove groups whose comments or images suggest they involve incest, pedophilia, bullying, or other inappropriate content. • Send warning messages when a child is in danger of giving personal information to an adult. • Review users' profiles when they ask to change their age, ensuring the update is legitimate and not intended to let adults masquerade as children.

Users can search the site for ideas on classroom instruction, classroom management, and student assessment, and they can sign up to receive a monthly eNewsletter.

Searchable subject areas include technology, biology, chemistry, geometry, algebra, computer science, and business.

The new Wi-Fi option offers download speeds of 120 to 200 megabits per second—rivaling or trumping the speed of a wired network—compared with 54 megabits per second for most other wireless networks

Theresa Byrd, chief information officer at Ohio Wesleyan University, said officials were hesitant to commit to the "n" technology until they saw students buying laptops with "n" capabilities. 

Once students become accustomed to the increased speed of wireless "n" networks, they will enter the workforce with the same expectations from their employers, which could spur a wireless revolution in small businesses and large corporations across the country, experts said.

He underscored that the book does not aim to frighten school leaders, but to urge them to treat the approaching changes as an opportunity rather than a threat.

Online Opinion A national survey of 3,200 adults found more support for advanced, college-level courses for high school students and online courses for rural students with limited coursetaking options than for courses targeting dropouts or home-schoolers. Source: Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns predicts that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.

“Whenever an industry gets disrupted, people always consume more, because it’s more affordable, it’s simpler, easier to access, to customize to what they need,” he said. “What a wonderful thing, that we would consume more education.”

"What makes our law school is our faculty," Peter Rock Ternes, a second-year Chicago law school student, said in a statement. "I think it makes sense to encourage focusing on them and on the classroom discussions." Banning internet access in classrooms, Levmore said, would restore basic rules of politeness and professional etiquette between students and professors.

A professor at Harvard Law School who did not want her name published in this article said disallowing laptops has cultivated class discussion and student participation.

Forty-seven percent of teen bloggers write outside of school for personal reasons several times a week or more, compared with 33 percent of teens without blogs. Sixty-five percent of teen bloggers believe that writing is essential to later success in life; 53 percent of non-bloggers say the same thing.