Students to teach school administrators about technology
Forget high-paid consultants—students will be teaching Nebraska’s principals and superintendents about computers. As part of a technology training program beginning ... Read more
Month: June 2001
Private school requires handheld computers for high schoolers
A private school near Winston-Salem, N.C., reportedly is the first K-12 school in the country to require the use of ... Read more
CEO Forum: Measure student achievement on ’21st-century’ skills
America should begin now to equip students with a new set of “21st-century” skills, according to the latest report released ... Read more
NBPTS and ISTE plan online video library of best teaching practices
Some teachers and education groups are creating an online library of videos that will show exemplary practices for teaching with ... Read more
Feds dole out $36 million for creation of magnet schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has announced 21 new grants totaling $36 million in federal support for magnet school ... Read more
Web-based tool measures Arizona teachers’ tech proficiency
An agreement between Arizona education officials and a Utah-based company will enable all 40,000 of Arizona’s teachers to use an ... Read more
eSN Exclusive: N2H2 snags paid users, reaffirms its ‘absolute’ commitment to K-12
Since switching from a free, ad-sponsored business model to a paid subscription model last fall, Seattle-based N2H2 Inc.—the nation’s top ... Read more
Web-based gaming environment used to teach science
By October—with the same video game technology that lets you ride a virtual surf board or drive a virtual race ... Read more
Schools, other consumers slow to embrace Linux
Long considered the computer operating system of the pocket-protector set, Linux at one point seemed poised to enter into America’s ... Read more
Flap arises over students’ online teacher ‘evaluations’
By regularly losing court cases when they’ve tried it, school districts around the nation have learned they pretty much are ... Read more