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“There is an aggressively expanding movement in home education throughout our nation. These parents who have brought their children home are well-educated, selective consumers, and are seeking high-quality and trusted materials for use in their home classrooms,” said Cyndi Simmons, Editor-In-Chief of Homeschooling Parent.Read the Full Story
A recently launched project will effectively eliminate the so-called digital divide between the province’s urban and rural areas. Read the Full Story
The two leaders — H. Martin Lancaster, president of the North Carolina community-college system, and J. David Armstrong, Jr., chancellor of community-college and work-force education for the Florida Department of Education — spoke about their states’ education-technology efforts and outlined challenges to come.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, D.C. November 10, 2004 — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting today announced the creation of the $4.7 million Digital Services Fund, which will assist local public television stations in creating the first generation prototypes of digital content and services. “Public broadcasters are trailblazers on the digital frontier,†said CPB President and CEO Kathleen Cox. […]
The Mozilla Foundation, a California-based non-profit organization dedicated to developing open source software, hopes Firefox 1.0 will attract millions of users away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.Read the Full Story
This exploratory, qualitative study looked at one case study course and provides practical recommendations for stronger orientation programs.Read the Full Story
“If I lose two kids, that’s $20,000 walking out the door,” said Dave Grosche, superintendent of the Edison 54JT School District.Read the Full Story
An explosion of accredited online programs has generated a critical mass of accomplished graduates who have buoyed the cachet of Internet-based business diplomas, hiring experts say.Read the Full Story
Kim Howells attacked the failed £50m online university project, which was scrapped this year after only recruiting 900 students.Read the Full Story
Meanwhile, Washington lobbyists are pushing members of Congress to write a bill that would exempt the Universal Service Fund from complying with the federal law that caused the funds to be stopped in the first place.Read the Full Story