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School Adopts New Internet Filter System

A new Internet filter will be installed next week that will provide the Fairfield school district the ability to monitor student access to Internet sites. The new Bess Proxy/Filter server was approved at the Fairfield Community School District Board of Directors meeting Monday.

Schools Get High-Speed Web Link, Courtesy of Comcast

Students in public and private schools in Anne Arundel County will soon have a wealth of knowledge at their fingertips with the addition of high-speed Internet access for schools.

Quia Launches Internet’s Largest Collaborative Educational Resource

BURLINGAME, CA. – (October 10, 2000) – Quia Corporation, the worlds largest collaborative online educational resource, launched its Web site today with more than 350,000 teachers and students already using the site they discovered by word –of mouth. Quias sophisticated yet user-friendly technology allows educators, from the classroom to the boardroom, to create online learning […]

First Ever Virtual High School Symposium Brings Participation from 31 States and the White House

Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to Keynote on “High-Quality Science and Math Education: The Engine of Continued Economic Growth” Denver – October 10, 2000 – The Center for Internet Technology in Education (CiTE), sponsored by eCollege.comsm [Nasdaq: ECLG], and the Kentucky Virtual High School (KVHS) announced […]

Telecommuting Tots

At Cyber Village Academy, students switch on their school Your fourth-grader gets ready for school: shower, clothes, breakfast. Then he fires up his laptop and gets to it — without ever leaving the kitchen.

WebED Contracts to Provide Online Staff Development for K-12 Educators in Massachusetts

HAMPTON, N.H., Oct 11, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — WebED, Inc. ( www.WebED.com), one of the nation’s leading providers of Internet-based compulsory professional development training for educators, today announced the recent signing of a contract to sell its courses for K-12 educators to the French River Education Center (FREC), an educational service agency. The ESA will […]

School Districts Can Be Hit with Bills for Online Learning

Chartiers Valley School District officials were surprised to get a bill to pay for eight pupils enrolled at a school in Midland, Beaver County.

Technology Standards for School Administrators Forum in Denver

The Collaborative for Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA) is undertaking a year-long project to facilitate a national consensus and to document what school administrators should know about and be able to do in order to lead effective implementation of technology in preK–Grade 12 education. The first stakeholder event will be an all-day expert forum […]

Virginia teachers learn in-house

Virginia teachers will be able to get technology training and meet professional certification requirements by taking a two-month distance-learning class offered by a local school system in Northern Virginia.

Students Can Make Up Classes Online

FAIRFIELD — Next month, Fairfield Senior High School and alternative school students who have failed English classes will be able to make up credit by taking an after-school, online course supervised by a Fairfield teacher.