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Updates on: tracking students’ illegal movie downloads, home schooling, universities’ partnership to aid mature workers work better with technology, Texas high school web management, and Arizona’s university funding policy review

Brian Krebs’s computer security blog for Washington Post provides a detailed overview of the discussion surrounding the Motion Picture Association of America’s proposal to implement the use of software to catch students using their universities’ networks to download pirated movies. — Washington Post blog

Are home-schooled children more aptly prepared for college? This article explores the Utah state requirements for home schooling, options parents have of meeting them, and how being taught at home affects subsequent college admissions and overall experience for the estimated million American children who learn from home. — Daily Herald

A new partnership brings together researchers from the University of Dundee’s School of Computing in the U.K. and the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine in a concerted effort to develop assistive technologies and gain insight into new ways to improve workplace performance in maturing workers by improving the workplace and by increasing the ability of older workers to use technology. — Campus Technology

Round Rock Independent School District in Texas is moving management of its special populations to the Web. Half of the data entry assistants, formerly helping with paperwork, will be reassigned to positions of working directly with students. — T.H.E. Journal

Plans are discussed at Arizona state Capitol to make university funding reflect student performance and graduation rates, possibly replacing the current policy that distributes money based on number of students enrolled. — Arizona Daily Star