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Despite a recession that has hit the economy in general and the technology sector in particular, Microsoft Corp. has announced the launch of a new information technology (IT) training and certification program for both high schools and higher education institutions.
In a case that demonstrates the demand for equitable computer access in public schools, a program asking parents at a Palo Alto, Calif., middle school to buy $2,000 laptops for their sixth-graders has been put on hold.
The dog is no longer the prime culprit when homework doesn’t show up on the teacher’s desk on time. Now it’s “the cyber excuse,” as Kirkland, Wash., teacher Jill Berge calls it. “It happens all the time.”
Through a donation from Greenway Medical Technologies, students at Jonesville Middle School can now learn and apply computer programming knowledge as part of an ongoing, annual project. The school recently purchased desktop publishing software with a monetary donation from the healthcare management software solutions provider and will receive ongoing training and IT support from Greenway […]
President George W. Bush has announced the creation of two new web-based education projects that will allow students and educators from the United States to collaborate on projects and share ideas with those in other nations.
A plan to use laptops at a middle school in Palo Alto, California, has been put on hold after parents objected to the idea.
Computers are transforming classrooms – but the brave new world envisaged by ICT evangelists is a step backwards, says John Clare
Ann Arbor high school students join nationwide option for unusual courses
Lisa Johnson gets the message when her students at Taft Middle School go to a science fair.
Spending on servers by U.S. public schools will climb 8.5 percent to $153 million for the 2001-2002 academic year, according to a recent report by Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Group.