For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts University, and Georgia State University have been conducting a study to determine whether tablet computers loaded with literacy applications could improve the reading preparedness of young children living in economically disadvantaged communities. At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Learning at Scale…

Open-source software and existing devices form the backbone of one district's big digital signage upgrade.

Lightpath, a provider of Ethernet-based communication solutions for New York metropolitan area businesses, is working with Ramsey School District in New Jersey in support of a wide range of bandwidth-intensive initiatives that demand the power and flexibility of a 100 percent fiber network. A fifteen year Lightpath customer, Ramsey school…

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