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- Political News Consumers, 2004 vs. 2008
- Spring 2004 Spring 2008 Race/Ethnicity White, non-Hispanic 32% 40% Black, non-Hispanic 19 40 Hispanic 31 43 Age 18-29 36 50 30-49 37 51 50-64 31 36 65+ 11 15 Education...
- Tags: high school, operational accounting, finance, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Is your district ready for a New Tech High School?
- In my home town, a pretty typical Midwestern college town I suppose, our school district is in the process of establishing a New Tech High School. The concept has been around since 1999. Here is what the New Technology Foundation has to say: New Technology Foundation NTF™ was established in 1999 as...
- Tags: Concept, High School, New Technology Foundation, Productivity, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Networking, Internet, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- High school football under attack across America!
- There's a disorganized but effective attack on high school football in America. In fact, it's directly hitting the football players themselves. As the Center for Disease Control reported earlier this week, the virulent MRSA bacterium is becoming more widespread. And it really seems to have a thing...
- Tags: High School, Idaho, Football, Attack, MRSA, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- Engineer's Toolkit (exe)
- This is a very useful program for Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Geometry, and Trigonometry teachers and students. It has numerous tools to help you with grading, tests, homeworks, etc. A lot of useful formulas are implemented in this version. Program was designed based on the needs of a typical student studying...
- Tags: High School, Teacher, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-04-06
- Where student work is merit-based, too
- In a model that blurs the boundaries between business office and school classroom, some Indiana high schools are using non-traditional techniques in order to engage students, reports the Indianapolis Star. Six new districts are slated to open New Technology high schools over the next two years. The high schools...
- Tags: high school
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Program brings biomed practice to MD high schools
- Come 2008, juniors and seniors at ten Maryland high schools will get a chance to experience what it would be like to be a forensic scientist, reports The (Frederick, MD) Gazette. The Frederick County, MD, school district received a grant that funds programs where students will be used...
- Tags: Education Technology, Science Ed, biomedical science, biomedical
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Maine high school IT students refurb PCs
- A high school in Maine has come up with a solution to those pesky outdated school computers—fix em up and give them away to other students. The idea has far-reaching benefits for everyone involved, reports the Portland Press Herald. Students in the Information Technology program at the Sanford Regional...
- Tags: Vo-Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- 5 Things About Ryan Stewart
- I was tagged by Terry and Mary Jo, so Im going to give in and do this meme although a bit late. And frankly I hope you guys enjoy learning more about me. So: Five Things You May Not Know About Me 1. I spent a summer working...
- Tags: Instant messaging, IM, Ive, coal, high school
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Techno idiots, huh? Then we have our work cut out for us.
- Kids these days...What with their newfangled "Myspace" and "Instant Messaging", always "texting" each other. Why, back in my day, we just talked on the phone.OK, so Im only 30 and Ive sent my share of text messages. However, in computer years, Im still old enough to remember a...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-29
- Web pages to plan for high school
- Theres no time like the present to start planning for the future. Thats just what Kentucky students can do now that they have access to a new web-based career site aimed at middle and high schoolers, reports eSchool news The new system called Individual Learning Plans lets...
- Tags: Web, Ive, high school
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Computer funding bleak in Philippines
- While most U.S. schoosl scrabble around for funding for new computers, things could be worse. In the Philippines school system, reports INQ7.net there are 25,000 public elementary school students sharing one computer - and the ratio for high school is 111 students per computer. Philippines Education Secretary Jesli Lapus...
- Tags: Philippines Education Secretary Jesli Lapus, high school, computer
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- Missing the point ...
- Last Saturday's Education IT article (High schools of the future: small, focused and wired.) reports on a growing awareness that our high schools are falling short in preparing our students. Well, it is about time that someone noticed! Just the same, I see contradictions in both the article...
- Tags: high school
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
- High schools of the future: small, focused and wired.
- The high school of the future may look a lot more like the college of today. There is a national movement afoot to reshape high schools into smaller, specialized schools where technology and online learning play a much larger role in classrooms, reports the Arizona Republic. The smaller, specialized...
- Tags: high school
- Blog posts 2006-06-03
- Gates Foundation funds NC's New Schools
- North Carolina schools have recently received a giant financial boost to develop areas such as biotechnology and information technology. The $10.4 million award from the Bill Gates Foundation, coupled with the $11 million award given three years ago, will allow North Carolina to expand its New Schools project....
- Tags: high school, New School
- Blog posts 2006-05-31
- Stanford online high school for gifted, affuent students
- For gifted students with the means, Stanford offers a way to take advanced classes that prepare students for elite universities. The Online High School at Stanford (press release, PDF) is the nation's first fully accredited online high school for gifted and talented students, eSchool News reports. The...
- Tags: Stanford
- Blog posts 2006-04-19
- Million-dollar Linux
- Frankly, I'm skeptical about the claims made in Indiana high schools save state $1m by running Linux. Not that Linspire or the other two unnamed Linux distributions are not suitable for deployment in high schools in Indiana or anywhere else but I doubt that the State of Indiana is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- High school uses wireless laptops in class
- High school uses wireless laptops in classCNET's Brian Cooley looks at how students at Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose, Calif., are using laptops that have wireless Internet access in class. Administrators hope the technology will build computer skills and improve academic achievement.
- Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, laptop computer, wireless laptop, High School, wireless
- Videos 2003-11-11
- Preparing America's Future: The High School Initiative and Career and Technical Education
- This webcast gives an overview of the department's high school initiative called Preparing America's future. The Preparing America's Future initiative was launched in October 2003 at the first national high school leadership summit. The purpose of the initiative is to encourage leaders at both state and local levels and at...
- Tags: Education, Initiative, High School, Preparing America, Professional Development, Leadership, Career, Management
- Webcasts
- Breaking Myths, Changing Education - Mariemont High Wins the Blue Ribbon Award, Again!
- Located in a while collar school district in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mariemont High School has a reputation for leading its students to the doorsteps of top post-secondary institutions. The school received its third Blue Ribbon award in the school year 2001-2002, giving it the distinction of being the only high school...
- Tags: Education, High School, Cisco Systems Inc., Ohio
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops
- As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...
- Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
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