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Amid Criticism, Santorum Pulls Kids From School

Santorum has a modest home in Penn Hills, but neighbors say he hardly spends any time there and really lives outside Washington D.C. in Leesburg, Va., where his family owns a much more expensive house. Read the Full Story

DeVry moving online ops

DeVry acquired the 108,000-square foot building at 1200 Diehl Road from Dallas-based asset manager Invesco. Hewlett Packard was the previous occupant. Read the Full Story

Mediating affect and attitude while learning in a web-based format: The Campus Alberta Applied Psychology experience

This paper explores the issues that have emerged as counselling psychology students and faculty expand their learning and teaching experiences in a technologically-rich web-based learning environment. Specific strategies include the deliberate use of counselling skills and the working alliance construct in maintaining virtual community, relationship-based approaches to computer-mediated communication forums participation, and instructor training for […]

Bush turns to Spellings for education secretary

Spellings, architect of Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind law, “has my complete trust,” Bush said at a White House announcement. “In Margaret Spellings, America’s children, teachers and parents will have a principled, determined ally.”Read the Full Story

Microsoft and UNESCO Announce Joint Education and Community Development Initiatives

To support their common goals of promoting socioeconomic development round the world, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today announced a cooperation agreement that will help increase access to information and communication technologies (ICT) and ICT skills training in underserved communities. At a formal signing ceremony in […]

Hot Technologies in K-12 Education

Perhaps the greatest promise of anticipated technologies is their potential to transform schools through innovation. Read the Full Story

Maryland company wins Latin American education work

The Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa (ILCE), an international organization formed by 13 Latin American countries to enhance education opportunities through technology, issued the award, which was funded by the Mexican Education Ministry. ILCE uses the Internet to offer online education programs to Latin Americans to try to stimulate regional economies. Read the Full […]

CPB [Corporation for Public Broadcasting] Board Reaffirms Commitment to Non-Commercial, Universal Service to Nation’s Youngest Citizens

“Throughout its history, public television has set a high standard for non-commercial, universally available children’s educational programming,” said Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, CPB Board Chair. “In the midst of a landscape crowded with new technologies and content choice, we have no more important mission than to continue to exercise the same kind of leadership.” Read the […]

IBM Introduces ‘World Community Grid’

ARMONK, N.Y. — Nov. 16, 2004 — IBM, along with representatives of the world’s leading science, education and philanthropic organizations, today launched World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world’s most difficult health and societal problems. World Community Grid will […]

SyberWorks Learning Management System Selected by Pingtel

Arlington, Massachusetts – November 18, 2004-SyberWorks, a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System industry, announced today they have been selected by Pingtel Corporation, the leading open source, enterprise class, IP PBX software, to provide reseller and customer support training using the SyberWorks hosted e-Learning solution.Larry McMahon, Vice President of Services for […]