Find the Latest Resources in Education Today
Articles by staff and wire services reports
Grant Deadlines
May Giant Step Award The Gale Group and School Library Journal have created a program that will award $10,000 to a school library that has made the most…
Securing a grant is only the first step
What’s the most awful part of the entire grantsmanship process? If you pose this question to individuals who have been successful in getting proposals funded, I would be willing to…
Key news that affects the companies you do business with
Mattel prepares to sell The Learning Company Mattel Inc. announced April 3 that its Learning Company software business will be up for sale. Mattel has retained Credit Suisse First…
Unplugged classroom.com
“I’ve pulled the plug,” Juanita announces. Juanita is an early adopter. Way back in the early 1980s, she grasped the potential of personal computers and did everything possible to…
Your one-stop spot for great jobs and top tech talent
In today’s incredibly tight tech employment marketplace, the eSchool News Career Center is the K-12 recruiter’s best friend, and it’s the place to turn first if you’re a top technology…
One principal’s story: To technology and back again
Howard Pitler must really like turning teachers into techno-teachers. After all, just when this Kansas principal was leading a technologically savvy staff at a highly acclaimed technology magnet school, he…
Online, workshop, or satellite training? The choice is yours
Opportunities abound for professional development delivered via computer, workshop, or satellite. Here’s a sampling of what’s out there: Computers for Lunch. Here’s the idea: use your lunch hour (or…
Judge blocks hackers’ attempts to bypass internet filter
A federal judge has sided with an internet filtering company in its lawsuit against two computer experts who distributed a way for kids to deduce their systems’ passwords…
Computer donor halts operation, citing dwindling support
The Detwiler Foundation, a California-based nonprofit that pioneered the practice of placing donated computers into schools, has pulled the plug on its national Computers for Schools program. The…
If Microsoft verdict sticks, school tech folk fear compatibility trouble
As Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was vowing to fight the April 3 decision that his company violated U.S. antitrust laws by mounting a “deliberate assault” on competition in…