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SIXTH-GRADERS PARTICIPATE IN NOAA’S INTERNET AT SEA PROGRAM

NOAA 2000-R325 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Pat Viets 12/5/00 Eighteen sixth-grade students from Accomack County on the Delmarva Peninsula recently participated in an Internet at Sea event, thanks to a program sponsored by NOAA and its partners. The students watched and listened to a live, Internet-based audio/video presentation from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown, […]

Students learn in ‘cyberschool

CARIBOU — Nearly 60 high school students from across Aroostook County are taking a class without seeing a teacher or a classmate. But theyll have regular contact with both through their computer and the World Wide Web

Education World and iUniverse.com Partner to Give Schools The Power to Publish

PRINCETON, N.J. — As a child, did you ever have the dream of publishing a book? Books celebrating ethnic diversity, condemning violence, and championing Mother Nature are on the reading lists of hundreds if not thousands of K-12 schools. In these budding American “think tanks” a new wave of student and teacher created books and […]

School Internet logs at center of lawsuit don’t exist

EXETER — The records of school Internet files made public by a judge’s order a month ago no longer exist.

Public schools embrace technology

High school senior Lesley Mayfield has a few deadlines to meet. By Dec. 18, the Capital High School student must lay out 36 more pages of the school yearbook, titled Through the Eye of the Jaguar. The deadline to complete the yearbook is early next year.

Report: Students internet access jumps 42 percent

The nations schools improved their students access to internet-connected computers by more than 40 percent during the past year alone, according to a new study by research firm Market Data Retrieval (MDR), a division of Dun & Bradstreet Corp. of Shelton, Conn.

Ohio wants online school to be audited

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Education has requested an audit of an online charter school whose enrollment figures have been questioned.

Students set pace at online school

Michele Towns didn’t like going to school. The Columbus eighth-grader said she was frequently teased. “Talk, rumors,” she said. “I just didn’t want to put up with it no more.” Bouts with asthma and bronchitis also kept her from class at Mifflin Alternative Middle School.

Public school rankings hit the Internet

Massive statistical profiles of the state’s public schools hit the Internet today, including the first-ever rankings of performance on the state’s assessment tests.

Public schools pledged speedy Internet access

MONTGOMERY – Gov. Don Siegelman on Tuesday vowed that each of Alabama’s 1,445 public schools will have access to high-speed Internet service by 2003, which could cost as much as $90 million in state and federal money.