Virginia, AOL honor educators
Eight Virginia public school teachers and librarians were honored recently by the commonwealth and America Online Inc. for integrating technology into their schools classroom instruction and curriculum.
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Blackboard Announces 100th K-12 License To Become a Leading Provider of e-Education Software Infrastructure to Elementary and Secondary Education
Blackboard Inc recently announced the company has completed the sale of its 100th license to the K-12 market with the signing of the Plano Independent School District in Plano, Texas. Plano Independent School District will implement a Blackboard 5TM Level Two license as part of the districts new e-school initiative. Blackboard 5 is Blackboards comprehensive […]
Books beat computers in learning
LONDON: Teachers and parents have suspected that books are better than computers at helping children pass exams. Now experts have confirmed it.
Technology teacher honored
As a technology teacher, Massoth enters the school at 6:15 a.m. to make sure the server is working, typically wraps things up at 5:30 p.m. or so and heads home to Durham, where she lives with her husband, Dan Barnes.
Getting Serious About High Tech
The students that Billie Anthony teaches at Carmen Arace Middle School switched on the laptop computers they had brought to school. They went to the Web site with the homework assignment from the night before, a magazine article on the colonial slave trade. Mrs. Anthony guided them through a review of their homework notes, which […]
Technology grant targets Wheaton teens
Wheaton Warrenville Unit School District 200 students will get the chance to learn business-oriented technology, thanks to a $248,600 grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.
collegeboard.com Acquires MyRoad.com, Expanding Its School-Based Guidance Services
collegeboard.com announced today that it has acquired MyRoad.com, an Emeryville, California-based company that provides education and career planning services to high school and college students. The acquisition of MyRoad.com further solidifies the position of collegeboard.com in the education industry as a trusted provider of college planning, test preparation, and other academic services to students, parents, […]
Webcast: Students present Jupiter results
A few of the 2,300 girls and boys from 13 states who used a huge remote-control telescope to measure energy from Jupiter’s radiation belts during this school year will present their results to NASA scientists during a live telecast and webcast from JPL.
High school credits only a point, click away
Every time William Murray hits the “send” button and shuttles an economics assignment to his teacher in Fort Lauderdale, he is one step closer to earning a high school credit via his computer.
FCC’s E-Rate Proposal Would ‘Spread the Wealth’
Schools and districts in highly impoverished communities that have been getting first crack at federal E-rate discounts for wiring classrooms and building telecommunications networks may have to share more of that aid with schools that are not quite as poor, under a proposal by the Federal Communications Commission.