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ED releases final version of National Ed-Tech Plan

November 11, 2010November 9, 2010 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor

The final version of the new National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) includes a focus on individualized instruction and connectivity, and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said meeting…

Putting our ideas of assessment to the test

January 26, 2011September 27, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor

Here’s a pop quiz: What are the skills that today’s students will need to be successful in tomorrow’s workplace? The answer to this question has enormous implications for…

On the way: Nation’s first tech-literacy exam

December 14, 2009October 7, 2008 by From staff and wire reports

For the first time ever, technological literacy will become part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, the test's governing…

Arizona raising students’ technology literacy

December 14, 2009September 26, 2008 by By Cathy Poplin

Mention No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in any setting, and you're certain to excite a lively conversation. It seems everyone has an opinion, reaction, or thought about the…

School libraries try to do more with less

December 14, 2009September 16, 2008 by By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, eSchool News

This fall, school libraries across the country will be working to implement new standards for learning in the 21st century--but many will be doing so with fewer resources…

Report: Retool instruction, or U.S. will fail

December 14, 2009September 10, 2008 by From eSchool News staff and wire service reports

Creating a 21st-century education system that prepares students, workers, and citizens to triumph in the global skills race is the central economic competitiveness issue currently facing the United…

New resource helps teach 21st-century skills

December 14, 2009July 18, 2008 by By Laura Devaney, Senior Editor, eSchool News

Social studies teachers now have a new resource to help them integrate 21st-century skills into their lessons: a free online document that maps various social studies projects, tasks,…

NECC highlights tech’s ‘transformative’ power

December 14, 2009July 16, 2008 by From eSchool News staff reports

Transformation and collaboration were the central ideas of the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, which kicked off June 29 with a call to fundamentally…

ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers

December 14, 2009July 1, 2008 by From eSchool News staff reports

Schools looking for a framework to help guide their teachers' use of technology in the classroom have a new resource at their disposal: The International Society for Technology…

States struggle with assessing tech literacy

December 14, 2009March 11, 2008 by By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, eSchool News

The No Child Left Behind Act stipulates that all students should be technologically literate by the end of the eighth grade. But how to assess technological literacy has…

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