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“Creating High-Quality Preschool: New Ideas for Supporting Early Learning Programs” is the title of a live, interactive teleconference on November 15 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. ET. The program will suggest ways that schools & districts can use existing federal funds (including Title I) & form partnerships to support pre-school programs & serve young children. […]
Starting next month, the Florida High School, a Web-based public school that offers virtual classes to the state’s students, will have real-time conversations in courses. That announcement, expected today at the National School Boards Association’s Technology & Learning conference in Denver, also includes plans to make FHS courses available to other school districts.
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Bill Ivey today announced $990,000 in grants to school districts to help young people better understand and interpret the artistic content of electronic media images -including those that contain violence. The grants, under the U.S. Department of Education’s Arts in […]
Learn what technology can — and can’t — do in the education of young children. Early Connections, developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory’s Child & Family Program and NWREL’s Northwest Educational Technology Consortium, provides research-based information & resources for those who work with children ages 8 & younger. It pulls together a range of information […]
“Building an Automated School Record System” is a guide for local & state education agencies that are designing or upgrading an automated student information system. It is based on a chapter in the “Student Data Handbook for Elementary, Secondary, & Early Childhood Education.” The new guide provides additional information & includes guidelines, checklists, and examples.
In a groundbreaking decision for digital intellectual-property rules, the Copyright Office backs companies that limit access to Internet content.
As the UMass Online initiative moves forward, faculty here and at other University campuses are raising questions about intellectual property issues, a union leader told the Faculty Senate on Oct. 19.
Consortium of 35 Schools Taps WebCT for Network-Wide E-learning Option
More than 2,500 educators and policy makers will gather at the College Board’s Centennial Forum in New York on October 28-31 to discuss important topics in higher education such as diversity, access, and achievement and the impact of changing demographics.
USA Video Interactive (OTCBB: USVO; CDNX: US; www.usvo.com) President and Chief Executive Officer Edwin Molina was a panelist today discussing the future of movies on the Internet at THE KAGAN VOD SUMMIT: The $10 Billion Challenge, hosted by Paul Kagan Associates (www.kagan.com), the international high-tech media research firm. The Conference was chaired by Kagan Senior […]