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What some call “glorified Rolodexes” are marching through school doors this fall in growing numbers. High schools in Dade County, Fla., and Omaha, Neb., are testing them with student groups. The private Forsyth Country Day School in Winston-Salem, N.C., will hand all students a turbocharged version today – complete with media fanfare.
Technical difficulties during a Pitt County school board briefing Tuesday underlined a parental concern about televised teaching glitches can cancel the class.
Montana officials are working with NASA and geographic information system software companies to allow every K-12 public school student and teacher in the state to view maps as never before.
For the past six weeks, Chris Prince has rolled out of bed in the morning, walked to the kitchen for breakfast, then gone upstairs to class.
Nearly three-quarters of Maryland’s classrooms are wired to the Internet, and a majority of teachers now have access to computers.
Lightspan, Inc. (NASDAQ: LSPN – news) announced Lightspan’s K-2 software for Math, Reading, and Language Arts have been approved for listing in California’s Legal Compliance Catalog, meaning schools throughout the state can purchase Lightspan Achieve Now’s K-2 programs using $41 million proposed for the state’s Instructional Materials Fund (IMF) for 2001-2002. Lightspan also announced today […]
Schools and libraries that have applied for federal funds to help subsidize telecommunications services and Internet access soon will receive letters saying whether theyve been approved.
DENVER – July 30, 2001 – eCollegeSM [Nasdaq: ECLG], an eLearning software and services provider, today announced it has been awarded an extended contract with the Illinois Virtual High School. eCollege’s eClassroomSM division, dedicated to serving the eLearning needs of K-12 educators, has powered the IVHS pilot program since its launch in January 2001. “The […]
In its second round of grants from the Palm Education Pioneer (PEP) program, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today announces it is awarding $2.3 million in Palm(TM) handheld units to elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities to enable innovative teaching and learning, and to gain insight into how handheld computers affect teaching and learning. This […]
Schools: The animated approach is aimed at kindergartners, first-graders. Cost is $44 million.