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AutoCAD is coming back to the Mac, and this time it will be free. The archetypal computer aided drafting program from Autodesk, which for more than a decade has been available only on Windows operating systems, will ship this fall for Mac OS X, along with mobile editions for Apple’s iOS devices–iPad, iPhone, and iPod [...]

Working with the district’s IT department, a high school in Florida has switched over to electronic textbooks for the 2010-2011 school year in an effort to increase student learning opportunities and save money (and maybe a few trees) in the process.

High-stakes assessments don’t look to be going away anytime soon, but the form they take may be changing. The United States Department of Education Thursday awarded two grants to “move beyond narrowly focused bubble tests” and “develop a new generation of tests” based on standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative and adopted [...]

In its never-ending effort to take both academia and modern technology down a peg, Shmoop, publisher of irreverent study aids for several academic subjects, has launched a catalog of 500 self-assessment applications for Android smart phones, as well as more than 500 e-books for use with the Apple iPad.

Microsoft received a “strong positive” rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.