Cultural shift
In Florida's Orange County public school system, technology has been the catalyst for a major shift--to a system in which data collection, student tracking, and assessments have coalesced…
Vanguard Report
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Vanguard Report – Broward County Public Schools
Learn of the remarkable story of the Broward County Public Schools in Fort Lauderdale, FL. As school systems large and small grapple with the challenges.
Vanguard Report – Chicago Public Schools
This report chronicles the remarkable transition of the Chicago Public Schools from a lumbering, last-century institution toward a 21st century learning enterprise, a model of technology reform in…
A Better Way to Bring Computers to Schools
The Chicago Public Schools' unique governance structure --all schools are given full autonomy over how they spend their technology budgets--poses some significant challenges for the district's Office of…
Agents of Change
On an unseasonably warm morning not so long ago, a young, dark-haired boy darts through the double doors of Chicago's South Loop Elementary School. "Can you call my…
How to Eliminate a 40-Year-Old Mainframe
For the Chicago Public Schools' Office of Technology Services, switching from an ancient mainframe to a series of state-of-theart information systems was not a one-size-fits-all initiative.
Blueprint for success
Outside the Broward County, Fla., Public Schools administrative offices, the air shimmers with heat, the sky is hazy with humidity, and by 9:00 a.m. the air already feels…
Out with the old …
Last year, Broward County Public Schools embarked upon an ambitious, $68 million Digital Learning initiative with two goals in mind: (1) to provide students with greater and more…
Doors to data
For a school district with more than 300 applications running on more than 600 servers, the ability to have a single source of entry for unified access to…
Stellar tech use
In the vanguard of education, the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in metropolitan Washington, D.C., are committed to expanding the frontiers of learning with their stellar use of…