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Connecting Kids to Technology: Challenges and Opportunities

As America enters the 21st century, it is clear that technology is infiltrating nearly every facet of our lives. Recent employment projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that 8 of the 10 fastest growing occupations are computer- related. Read The Full Article

Software group’s anti-piracy campaign targets students

Although school leaders agree respecting intellectual property is an important concept for students to understand, some educators question the value of BSA’s curriculum.Read The Full Article

Scandals nothing new to business guru

After all, he began working as a business journalist on his 20th birthday, Nov. 19, 1929 — less than a month after the great crash on Wall Street. Read The Full Article

Executive Focus: Striving to fulfill Jordan’s IT aspirations

Al Zu’bi is Jordan’s Minister for Information and Communications Technology. Read The Full Article

ISRO to build education satellite

ISRO Chairman Dr K Kasturirangan made the announcement while delivering the Seventh Prof G. Rama Reddy lecture on “Connectivity through space-a boon for developing India” here today. Read The Full Article

Byrd Funding for Teacher Training Initiative Released

WASHINGTON, D.C…. Funds added to a federal appropriations bill by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., have been released to continue the one-year-old Integrating Strategies and Technology in Educational Practice (InSTEP) program which provides teachers with new high-tech education tools and training. “In the first year of the InSTEP program, more than 400 math, science, […]

U.S. Warns Web Sites to Label Sponsorships

The commission responded last week to a complaint filed a year ago by Commercial Alert, an anti-commercialism group co-founded by Ralph Nader. Read The Full Article

NAST to hold science videoconferences

The first session will be on related concerns in the agricultural and biological sciences. Read The Full Article

Second review of REACH launched

The review process will last all throughout the summer and will result in REACH 3.0, to be officially presented at Jordan’s second ICT Forum slated for Sept. 30-Oct. 1, the IT association of Jordan, int@j, said.

Growth Will Not Trim Inequality

Economists attending the Annual World Ban Conference on Development Economics in Norway Monday agreed that there is no direct correlation between inequality and economic growth. Read The Full Article