Students have a say in national ed-tech plan
More than 210,000 students from 1,535 schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia responded to a recent ... Read more
Month: November 2003
ED’s revamped web site aims to be more user-friendly
The U.S. Department of Education is revamping how it delivers tools and resources to stakeholders. The agency’s newly redesigned web ... Read more
Research: Nearly one-third of Americans now form ‘tech-savvy elite’
Your stakeholders are more likely than you might have realized to be highly tech-savvy. A study released Nov. 23 by ... Read more
As students power up, colleges rewire
Steve Leslie’s dorm room at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has 20 plugs sprouting from the walls. They power a ... Read more
Apples are in, board members are out in laptop flap
Frustrated by the local school board’s decision to spend $1.7 million to provide Apple laptop computers for some junior high ... Read more
New study reveals 187 key web design rules
A new report from the federal government distills thousands of pages of research down to 187 key recommendations for how ... Read more
Tech foundations join in $130M education project
Charitable foundations established by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell are combining to donate $55 million ... Read more
Chart the past–and present–of geographic exploration with this site commemorating Lewis and Clark
Commemorating 200 years since Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their pioneering expedition throughout North America, ESRI, a maker of geographic information systems (GIS) software, has developed…
Controversial radio ID tags keep track of kids
At the Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, N.Y., a controversial new technology is now in play that administrators say can ... Read more
School knits off-the-shelf Macs into third-fastest supercomputer
In a squat cement building at the outskirts of Virginia Tech’s campus, 1,100 Macintosh computers are stacked like library books–arranged ... Read more