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Bill Gates calls for ed-data center
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said changes to the nation's schools
and immigration laws are urgently needed to ensure America's continued competitiveness in the new global economy. He called on lawmakers to help strengthen U.S. high schools by creating an education-data center, encouraging more challenging standards, bolstering math and science education, and making curriculum more relevant and engaging to today's "digital natives," students comfortable with technology... | Full Story |
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Free web-based school safety tools
SchoolSpan will reopen its SchoolSpan Safe Schools Grant to offer schools a communications tool for anonymously reporting any potentially dangerous situation to the appropriate administrators or public officials... | Full Story
Deadline: June 30, 2007 |
| WEEK'S TOP NEWS ... |
Open-content learning portal debuts
A new online resource gives teachers and students free access to more than 8,000 digital learning materials. Educators and students can add tags, ratings, reviews, and comments to help others quickly find what they're looking for. The site's mission is to provide a single point of access through which educators, students, and all other types of learners can search for, browse, evaluate, and discuss these free learning materials... | Full
Story
Kids produce video for TV shows
Aiming to capitalize on the growing trend of user-created content, major television networks such as CNN, Nickelodeon, and TLC are inviting students as young as elementary school to shoot, edit, and star in videos that air on TV... | Full Story
Microsoft unveils new research projects
At TechFest, the annual gathering of Microsoft Corp.'s international research department, researchers showed off their best new work to Microsoft employees who work on real-world products, with the hope that their innovations will find homes in future versions of Microsoft Office, Windows Mobile, and other software. Several of the innovations on display had implications for schools and their students, including a new spin on video conferencing and a project that uses the Xbox to get kids interested in computer programming... | Full
Story
Cdigix to drop its online music service
Citing the needs of its education customers, digital entertainment and educational media provider Cdigix says it will stop providing its legal online music and movie downloading service to schools and focus solely on its on-demand content delivery system... | Full
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eSN's Tech-Savvy Superintendent Awards
The move toward an increasingly digital
society, and the emergence of a new era of accountability in the nation's schools, have
changed our expectations of the superintendency.
As school leaders come to rely on computers
and the internet to engage students' interest,
track their progress, individualize
instruction, and aid in decision making, an
understanding of how technology works and
how it can be used to transform teaching and
learning is an increasingly essential characteristic for the 21st-century school executive... | Full
Story
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Recalculating K-12 Math
In a downtown hotel in New Orleans in mid-January, nearly two dozen math experts from around the nation gathered to report on their progress toward recommendations that could shape the future of math... | Full Story
More bang for your technology buck
Across the country, school technology chiefs face a difficult challenge: Confronted with the reality of shrinking federal budgets and growing technology demands, they must do more with fewer resources at their disposal... | Full Story
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