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CALIFORNIA – Apple Computers Inc. has filed suit against the student editor of a Web site that the company says published trade secrets illegally obtained from Apple employees who are bound by confidentiality agreements. Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON — Instead of making college more affordable, federal aid programs are actually driving up the cost of tuition, according to a new Cato Institute study.Read the Full Story
This includes both a formal agenda for Congress including reauthorizations for Vocational Education, the Higher Education and Head Start reform and a few important “pet” projects including eradicating diploma mills.Read the Full Story
Without the grant money, city taxpayers have had to pay for maintenance and other projects that could have been subsidized by the E-rate program. E-rate is a federal program designed to help provide Internet access to poor children.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, D.C. January 12, 2005 – “There are essentially no limits on the opportunities for public television to use digital technology in the public interest – except for the limits of our financial resources,†said Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO, Kathleen Cox, today.Read the Full Story
Albert Ganier III, founder of Education Networks of America (ENA), appeared in a federal courthouse Jan. 4 after prosecutors allegedly uncovered evidence that he deleted eight documents from his desktop computer and four from his laptop. Read the Full Story
Shipments to thousands of PeopleSoft employees across the country are expected over the weekend, according to sources close to the company. Those spared pink slips will get packages too–containing new Oracle employment contracts. Read the Full Story
The three bills also would expand student access to advanced courses and other classes on the Internet and continue to offer spending flexibility to local school systems.Read the Full Story
SIF, which stands for the Schools Interoperability Framework, was developed to eliminate the need for school personnel to enter information about the same students over and over again for each administrative software package a district uses–a need that arises when software programs cannot communicate with each other or share information. Read the Full Story
The Specialist Schools Trust is creating a national database that will let teachers share the ICT and e-learning knowledge.Read the Full Story