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Public Television Broadcaster WUSF Selects Seachange Digital Media Server System

After 35 years of service to the greater Tampa Bay, Florida community, PBS member station WUSF (Channel 16) has a new home featuring state-of-the-art digital video operations based on SeaChange International, Inc.s (NASDAQ: SEAC) Broadcast MediaCluster digital media server system. Located on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, WUSFs all-digital facility was […]

Intel plans to retool the PC

A key industry group has all but approved an Intel technology to overhaul the innards of PCs, with full consent expected Friday.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Schooling Report

This report, based on data from the Parent Survey of the National Household Education Survey, 1999, contains information about the characteristics of home schooled children and their families, parent’s reasons for homeschooling, and public school support for homeschoolers.

House Approves Bills To Enhance Math And Science Education

Bolstering math and science education is the focus of two separate pieces of legislation providing nearly $1.7 billion in grants over the next five years to the nations colleges and universities, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said. The National Mathematics and Science Partnership Act and the National Science Education Act passed the House of Representatives on […]

PopTech 2001: Online, Everywhere, All the Time – How it will change our Lives

University of Maine collaborates with the Camden Technology Conference to create a 3 credit course It begins online October 5, 2001. Students will attend Camden Technology Conference at the Soderberg Center for Distance Education Orono campus on weekend of October 19-21. Remainder of course is held online through December 20. Check http://www.camcon.org for conference information. […]

SkillSoft Announces Reseller Agreement With 10 California State University Schools

SkillSoft Corp. (Nasdaq: SKIL) recently announced it has signed a two-year reseller agreement with a consortium of 10 California State University schools. Under the agreement, the schools can include 450 SkillSoft courses in certificate programs and other offerings as part of their ongoing continuing education services. The schools participating in the agreement include the following […]

Research on Rising College Costs

While college students and their families may get a sinking feeling with every report of rising college costs, research is under way that aims at least to show students and families what colleges do with all that money.

Homeschoolers Estimated at 850,000

Approximately 850,000 children were receiving their education at home in 1999, according to a new report released today by the U.S. Department of Educations National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Home Schooling in the United States: 1999 reports that about 1.7 percent of children ages five through 17 — the equivalent of grades K through […]

Governor Patton Hosts Grand Opening of

Kentucky Governor Paul E. Patton joined several high-profile organizations and corporations on Monday, July 30, to celebrate the opening of a PowerUP learning lab at the Cowan Community Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The learning lab is the first PowerUP site in an economically distressed Appalachian county. In addition to the Cowan Community Center, which is […]

Toysrus.com and Amazon.com team on specialty site

Imaginarium.com designed to serve niche, provide better online shopping experience.