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Florida Gives Teachers Secure Online Access to Terabytes of Student Data

Since the mid 1980s, Florida Department of Education DOE has collected student, staff, and workforce data and used it to guide program development and funding. As data volumes grew, so did demand for data - from teachers, administrators, legislators, and parents. To provide constituents with secure access to confidential student...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Education, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Teacher, Student Data, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Portals, Payroll Solutions, Content Management, Human Resources, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

Oklahoma Department of Education: Closing the Achievement Gap With Wireless Generation Professional Services

The Oklahoma State Department of Education is committed to improving teaching and learning in its schools and closing the reading achievement gap across the state. The Department identified a subset of fifteen schools needing additional support and turned to longtime partner Wireless Generation to collaborate on delivering targeted, ongoing professional...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Education, Oklahoma, Wireless, Wireless Generation, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

Case studies 2009-01-14

Special Needs Students Get Improved Services With Software-Plus-Services Solution

Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner DataHouse Consulting has been in the IT business for more than 30 years. Recently, DataHouse implemented a new student program management solution for Hawaii's Department of Education DOE. The Web-based application is delivered through the software-plus-services model that combines software accessed by...

Tags: Software, U.S. Department Of Education, Hawaii, Microsoft Corp., DataHouse, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2008-11-21

WA Department of Education and Training Rolls Out Statewide Digital Learning to 800 Schools

The Western Australian Department of Education and Training WA DET delivers education and skills development to people in the state. WA DET administers education across a region roughly one-third of the Australian land mass. This vast geography presents the department with a range of challenges, including building the skills of...

Tags: Education, U.S. Department Of Education, Oracle Corp., Training, WA DET, Portals, Internet

Case studies 2008-04-01

The Kentucky Department of Education Is Leveraging Information Technology to Take Educational Opportunities to New Heights With a Flexible, Robust and Secure Nortel Solution

Through the Kentucky Department of Education, the Office of Education Technology laid out its "2007-2012 Education Technology Master Plan" with the objectives of providing equal access to technology for all teachers and students, enhancing their teaching and learning experiences in Kentucky's classrooms, and to thereby prepare all Kentucky children to...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Education, Nortel Networks Corp., Information Technology, Kentucky, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Microsoft Office, Human Resources, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2008-02-14

Ensuring the Safety of Community Children

A valuable tool for a massive organization is an efficient, up-to-date communication system - a system that the Minnesota Department of Education needed to improve. The department wanted to replace an aging and inefficient dial-in interface system with an easy-to-use Web-based solution to provide public access to community information. The...

Tags: Minnesota, U.S. Department Of Education, ODBC, Unisys Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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Oregon Education Executives Speed Mobile E-Mail Handling by 20 Percent

The Oregon Department of Education provides leadership for all elementary and secondary students in Oregon's public schools and education service districts. Executives at the Oregon Department of Education ODE spent an increasing amount of time in meetings and on the road, working with schools around the state. Often, they couldn't...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Education, Mobile E-mail, Mobile, Oregon, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Software, Hardware

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U.S. willing to let go of Icann

Obama is selling us outonly a peace monger like Obama could cede US sovereignty to UN.It's time to elect a real American in 2012!Huge MistakeThis is a very bad idea. Whenever we cede control to the 'world,' the worlds tin horn disctators make a mess of it.This should have...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, Obama, salary, ICANN, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

School Board Virtualizes Servers, Boosts IT Productivity, and Saves $30,000 in First Year

Based in Brick, New Jersey, the Brick Township Board of Education administers a school district for students from kindergarten through grade 12. To maximize computing services for 2,000 employees while minimizing costs, the IT department turned to server virtualization, but its VMware solution couldn't virtualize the district's many transactional systems...

Tags: Information Technology, Board, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Server Virtualization, Servers, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Virtualization, Management

Case studies 2009-08-03

Space race or education?

Space race or education?Just FYIJust FYI, the Constellation program is the replacement for the Shuttle. There's no separate Shuttle replacement program.However, regarding Ares / Constellation, some like myself have been troubled by the program from the beginning. For more info I suggest forum.nasaspaceflight.com and www.directlauncher.comAs an architecture, I...

Tags: Federal Department of Education, education, Space Race, NASA

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

One Cisco Unified Computing System beats 15 coal-fired energy plants

So what's the power of one Unified Computing System being rolled out by Cisco Systems and partners such as EMC, VMware and Intel? Hard to be precise, but the memory capacity and power savings should capture the attention at least of the Internal...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-16

What BearingPoint

What BearingPointGood riddance?The Brits are finding out the hard way about digitizing medical records. Their own national IT project is way over budget and not very close to a solution (I know because I read the Register!). If the FBI can't even get their case file system working, what chance...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Outsourcing, Operational accounting, Financial services, Brits, BearingPoint Inc., acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Windows Mobile vs. Android, which is the better OS to focus on in 2009?

Windows Mobile vs. Android, which is the better OS to focus on in 2009?I think its a fair comparison.I would not try to compare media capabilities however. That is always going to be a function of apps or third parties on any platform. They both are capable of playing the...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, operating system, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Motorola Inc., Microsoft Windows, Mobile IE

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

AT

ATThus the great firewall...enters America. Way to go ISP's. Its not a matter of consumer education for people "illegally" downloading...its the fact that the [b]content providers[/b] are forcing people do - DRM doesnt work, it hurts the consumer so kill it. Yes more and more music is being able to...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Next Headline, RIAA, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

US gains in math and science ed...Really?

US gains in math and science ed...Really?RE: US gains in math and science ed...Really?cepedajoe: "History is being rewritten to match politically correct liberal ideals; science is rewritten to ignore facts and evidence and to base itself on theories. Math, well, you ask a high school graduate to complete a basic...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, achievement test, Web site

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?

Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?Well . . ."That way, they won't have to print web pages to paper anymore."Well, truth be known most assignments are typed on a word processor. If an English assignment is printed from a web page, it usually means you've cheated.Thanks for...

Tags: Flash memory, USB flash drive, Adobe PDF, cheap flash drive

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Large Federal Agency Gains HSPD-12 Compliance With VeriSign

The U.S. Department of Education ED was created in 1980 by combining offices from several federal agencies. ED's 4,200 employees and $68.6 billion budget are concentrated on the promotion of student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness through the use of quality education programs. The challenge was to gain full...

Tags: Agency, VeriSign Inc., HSPD-12, ED, Security

Case studies 2008-10-13

Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids

I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...

Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-21

U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future

U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in futureIn other news...IBM, AMD, Intel, Boeing..announce job cutsThese "shortage of engineer" articles are starting to smell fishy when balanced against job cuts and outsourcing news from the same companies that complain about shortages.Why not just cut...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Brother-In-Law, U.S. tech sector job, sector job, U.S. Tech, job, strong growth, H1B

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Burden of uninsured now closing non-profit hospitals

Burden of uninsured now closing non-profit hospitalsYou mean spread the deaths out evenly?from what I see, you are saying that those who wish to work hard should have the same substandard healthcare as those that do not wish to work at all? Strange indeedRE: Burden of uninsured now closing non-profit...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Taxes, health care, non-profit hospital, hospital, insurance, tax, government

Discussion threads 2008-04-03