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RadioShack Corporation (NYSE:RSH) is seeking outstanding high-school educators for its 2001-2002 National Teacher Awards program. The program recognizes teachers who demonstrate a commitment to educational excellence in mathematics, science and technology. Each year, the RadioShack National Teachers Awards program honors 110 high-school teachers and awards a cash prize of $3,000 to teachers with more than […]
iAssessment, an application service provider for the education marketplace, Thursday introduced the Teacher Technology Use Survey Module (TechUse), which will be first implemented as part of the California Technology Assistance Project’s (CTAP) online interactive teacher-assessment portal, CTAP2. The first public demonstration of TechUse will be conducted by CTAP and the California Department of Education at […]
School Books Inc. is dedicated to providing K-12 educators an efficient, low cost alternative for purchasing both recommended and required reading for their students. Offering accelerated reading at decelerated pricing, the discount structure for catalog titles is as follows: one to four units per title, 20%; five to nine units per title, 30%; and, ten […]
On October 9-10, one hundred twenty-five of the nation’s top governmental, corporate and educational leaders will convene in Palisades, N.Y. for the fourth National Education Summit.
When the yellow school busses arrived in the South Hills community of Bon Air on the first day of classes, there were more than a few empty seats. This might have been the result of an outbreak of first-day flu, but in more than a few cases, these seats would stay unused throughout the school […]
In many states, students can go online to broaden their choice of classes
The first cyberstudents the Monte Vista School District took in had been kicked out of school and wore radio-transmitter ankle bracelets so the police could track them. Most were in Denver, about 150 miles and a world away from the tiny southern Colorado school district of 1,400 students near the Continental Divide. Officials in the […]
Lightspan, Inc. (NASDAQ: LSPN) (the Company), a leading provider of quality curriculum-based software and Internet products and services used in schools and homes, announced today that it has signed a three-year, million dollar contract to supply Internet subscription products and professional development services to the San Antonio Independent School District (ISD). San Antonio ISD is […]
Two large television monitors sit in the room – one in front and one in back. Three cameras are anchored around, one for the instructor, one for the students and the other for production. Microphones are placed in front of each student and class coordinator Elaine Starck sits on the left side of the classroom […]