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Tech-savvy superintendents honored in Phoenix »
Snow wreaked havoc with travel plans in several U.S. states last week, but the sun was shining in Phoenix on Feb. 11 as eSchool News honored 10 superintendents who are among the nation’s most successful in leading their schools into the 21st century....
February 16 2010 / Read More »
AASA keynote: Focus on children, or risk nation’s status »
Referring to the significant challenges facing public education today as a crisis that threatens the nation’s status as a global leader, educational trailblazer Geoffrey Canada urged school leaders to push for more funding and do “whatever it takes” to make sure all students succeed....
February 14 2010 / Read More »
Duncan offers ‘guiding principles’ for rewriting NCLB »
Calling No Child Left Behind a “blunt instrument” that placed more emphasis on defining failure than encouraging success, Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Feb. 12 outlined the Obama administration’s vision for rewriting the nation’s education law....
February 14 2010 / Read More »
Duncan: Superintendent prep programs must change »
States and school systems, with the help of the federal government, must work harder to improve the way superintendents are trained and prepared to lead the nation’s schools, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told attendees of the American Association of School Administrators’ annual conference Feb. 12....
February 13 2010 / Read More »View all AASA News
American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
A professional organization for educational leaders. For nearly 140 years AASA’s National Conference on Education is where America’s school leaders go for a vision of the future in public education — to explore new thinking, new products, new services and new technologies. It is the largest annual meeting of school superintendents in the United States.
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National ed-tech plan coming next week »
The latest national blueprint for how schools can leverage technology’s power to transform teaching and learning is coming next week, said Karen Cator, director...
Mar 3 2010 / Read More »CoSN conference goers learn how to be innovative educators »
The challenges in our field are Olympic in proportion," said Consortium for School Networking CEO Keith Krueger in kicking off the organization's 2010 conference...
Mar 1 2010 / Read More »Symposium: Global awareness an increasingly important skill »
Educators need to rethink how they look at the global community, said Francesc Pedró during the ninth annual Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) International...
Mar 1 2010 / Read More »TCEA 2010: Exhibitor News »
A partnership between Texas Instruments and NASA to develop free math lessons with a space exploration theme, professional development from PBS TeacherLine for educators...
Feb 26 2010 / Read More »CoSN 2010: Innovation, ingenuity, and insight »
The 2010 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Conference, which runs Feb. 28-March 3, 2010, will focus on innovation, ingenuity, and insight and will help...
Feb 17 2010 / Read More »CoSN 2009 recap »
Watch a montage of CoSN's 2009 conference to see what went on at last year's conference....
Feb 17 2010 / Read More »TCEA uses social media to share resources »
Educators who couldn't make it to every session during the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) annual conference in Austin this month turned to the...
Feb 12 2010 / Read More »TCEA sessions focus on tech for all ages, online learning »
The second day of the Texas Computer Education Association's 30th annual conference was filled with sessions focusing on STEM education, online learning, and iPods...
Feb 12 2010 / Read More »View all other Event News
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Educators across the country recognize the need to provide thorough and effective keyboard instruction. They know that mastery of the keyboard is an essential literacy skill, yet nearly all districts struggle to provide effective instruction. Most still rely on an outdated and largely ineffective computer-lab model. As a result, students develop poor habits and powerful technology tools get bogged down with providing simple keystroke exercises. Read More
Questia Media, Inc., the world's largest online academic library and research service, delivered over 2000 additional books to its Questia School suite of products at no additional cost to its existing customers in 2009. Questia School library now offers over 28,000 previously published, full-text online books for less than the cost of one book per student. Because Questia School continuously adds books to its collection at no incremental cost to existing customers, educators can continue to provide new and essential research sources in these times of tight budgets. Read More
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