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- Congressman: Ed software study shows administration bias
- A commentary in Business Week by U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, a Democrat from Wisconsin, states that the nations schools are failing to prepare children to compete in the global economy. Kind was responding to a recent study which found that using software in schools has little or no effect...
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Spellings hawks NCLB, emphasizes edtech
- U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is on tour, promoting the re-authorization of the Bush administrations No Child Left Behind program, reports the Phoenix Business Journal. Flanked by representitives from tech companies Intel, Motorola and Ensych, and members of local school districts, Spellings told Arizonas Business & Education Coalition...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- In CO, attack on charter schools costs chairman his post
- A brouhaha has sparked up in Colorado, after state Rep. Mike Merrifield sent an email to state Sen. Sue Windels, blasting state support for charter schools. When the email was posted online, the state House of Representatives exploded, The Rocky Mountain News reports. "There must be a special...
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Changes afoot for No Child Left Behind
- President Bushs No Child Left Behind law is coming up for reauthorization and Congress is mulling over changes to the five-year old law, reports Stateline.org. Educators and governors are putting in their two cents to amend the new version of the five-year-old law, which has been criticized...
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- There's no room for bias in academia
- Whenever I sit down to review the comments posted about an article written by one of my fellow bloggers, I am struck by the level of bias that abounds among our readers. To be sure, there are zealots on almost every subject under the sun but sometimes our readers...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- CO wants to create agency to monitor online schools
- The Colorado legislature has proposed a bill to create a regulatory arm for online education, while allowing school districts more local control over online education programs, reports the Rocky Mountains News. The measure proposed by Sen. Sue Windels, chairwoman of the state Senate Education Committee, was created after an...
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Senate finally ready to fund math and science ed
- Complaints of inadequate funding for math and science from everyone from Bill Gates to scientists and school administrators have finally influenced a group of senators to proposed a bill to bolster federal investments in math, science and technology education and research, reports CNET News Senators Majority Leader Harry Reid...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- US governors: US education needs to get competitive - now
- The message was loud and clear at the National Governors Association this week—the U.S. needs to take immediate action in order to keep up with globalization, reports the Sante Fe New Mexican. The governors expressed concern that the U.S. is quickly losing pace in the global marketplace...
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Copyright infringement by your students is your problem
- I was not the least bit surprised last week when I read RIAA cracks down on downloading at 25 colleges. After all, institutions are routinely notified whenever resources residing in their domain are associated with disruptive activity outside of that domain. For that reason, we take substantive measures...
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- IL offers technology guidelines under NCLB pressure
- After learning from researchers that Illinois schools have some major gaps in technological literacy, the State Board of Education has decided to set standards and definitions of how to educate students, reports the Daily Herald The board is attempting to define how technology should be used in the...
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Jobs: Teacher unions prevents schools from excellence
- Steve Jobs came out swinging against teachers unions at an education reform conferencde in Austin recently, reports the Associated Press. Jobs said principals were unable to improve schools because they cant fire bad teachers due to tenure. He also compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs....
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- State moves against cyberbullying but Constitutional issues loom
- Schools may soon have a bit more muscle to expand anti-bullying policies to include online bullying, reports the Arkansas News. An amendment to an Arkansas state law that requires the board of directors of every school district to adopt policies to prevent bullying of students, has gotten the go-ahead...
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Vacation time in education IT
- In an educational IT setting, where tens of thousands of students may be dependent upon access to thousands of identically configured workstations anytime, day or night, the challenge to keep those workstations current and up to date can be daunting. Unlike Summer break, when student populations are down dramatically...
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Shifting the costs of Education IT
- As the cost of laptop and notebook computers has continued to drop (to within a $200 to $300 of the cost of a similarly capable desktop system), a growing number of colleges and universities have begun to require entering freshmen to bring a laptop/notebook computer to school with them. ...
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Educators address America's crisis in math performance
- American school children lag far behind many other countries when it comes to math skills - a very worrisome trend to educators. That was the main topic of discussion recently at a forum of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, reports the San Jose Mercury News. A panel of...
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
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- Global scope of East Anglia hack of global warming docs
- Here's the link with juicy details:http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2009/11/rolo-compressor-de-verdades.htmlClimate 'scientists' are liars. That's clear.Hockeystick anyone?And another one with some straight facts.http://www.climatedepot.com/Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey... HmmmThat sure reveals who the interested parties are.I wonder what their next step will be, start advocating the benefits of global warming perhaps?Communist manifesto & elitesDo you see the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- The Windows 7 judge and jury: Your mom
- Win 7 and the below average userI have quite a change up ahead with my co workers. We are a small financial institution and run XP currently. I am sure some of my co workers have vista at home however they have no idea what they are doing if a...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Time to change advertising?I hate to say this - but maybe it's time to change how we advertise?We need to add somebody somewhere to screen ads, one-by-one, for this stuff.Doesn't have to be the people hosting the website, but it *should* be somebody independent of the advertising firm.Or take a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- Industry fight against Google hurts education
- So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order
- Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on orderRock on Maine! [nt][b][/b]RE: Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order"Imagine going to a job where the company provides you with a laptop for 3 years and then switching jobs, only to find that...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
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