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As the first NLII fellow, Hagner is well acquainted with the organization. Not only does he bring a historical perspective to the NLII, he was also a key player on the strategic planning team that crafted the NLII’s new identity and focus: the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). A significant part of his role will be […]
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher testified before a Senate committee on lifelong learning opportunities.Read the Full Story
By the end of this school year, the National Governors Association (NGA) hopes to survey more than 10,000 high school students on their expectations and frustrations about America’s high schools and how the work they do affects their futures.Read the Full Story
Pennsylvania’s teachers are now gaining proficiency in redesigning learning activities to leverage the potential of technology incrementally, while greater numbers of students are increasingly engaged in learning. More adminis-trators and teachers are also starting to use real-time data to inform instruction.Read the Full Story
The Missouri Educational Technology Professionals’ Association (METPA), which was formed to help promote statewide education technology standards and integration, as well as to play an active role in the state’s fall education technology conference and spring technical conference.Read the Full Story
Such arrangements appear to constitute only a minute fraction of the tutoring business that is mushrooming under the federal law.Read the Full Story
Michigan’s grand vision of equipping every sixth-grade student in the state with a laptop computer may be no more.Read the Full Story
Originally, school district leaders in Cobb County, Ga., wanted to provide a laptop computer to every middle and high school student in the district, which would have made it the largest one-to-one computing initiative in the nation (see “$69.9 million iBook deal on tap in Ga.”). On April 13, however, they agreed to limit the […]
The findings led the department — and Republican leaders in Congress — to urge abandonment of financial aid restrictions on distance education, a change that many higher education lobbyists oppose.Read the Full Story
And I want to thank my esteemed colleague Secretary Chao for her expertise and dedication. We have worked together on these issues for the past four years.Read the Full Story