With the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Enhancing Education Through Technology Initiative (Ed Tech), the application and administration of federally funded programs has and continues to change.
During the 2001-2002 school year I was struck with the reality that our computer lab would not meet the demands of our school for another year.
The greatest change in
schools in the last two decades, without a doubt,
has been the onset of technology within districts
and campuses.
The methods used to design the Alabama Learning
Exchange can be replicated to create your own efficient, cost-effective, network-based education systems.
Wi-fi technologies will soon permeate
classrooms in schools and colleges just as they have started to enter
business conference rooms.
Higher education decision makers are faced
with a question that has serious organizational and monetary
implications...
tire of hearing the same litany: "Teachers
must be facilitators of learning; students must be allowed to
progress at individual rates of learning; all students can learn;
technology can transform student learning; students should be
responsible for their own learning; students should be engaged in
active learning; no child will be left behind; etc."
States are in the worst financial situation in 50 years. Collectively, they are running budget deficits in the range of $50 billion.
Pearson School Systems has released an update to Pearson Inform, a data analysis tool for K-12 schools. The new release, Inform 4.2, adds a new Academic Intervention Plan feature for planning individualize and group instruction.
One of the country's largest school districts has found great success in managing student records through a customized data warehousing, reporting, and analytics package. Teachers and administrators are extremely pleased with the tool, which helps them track the large and often transient student populations they serve in rapidly growing Hillsborough County, Florida.
- By Linda L Briggs
- 05/28/08
Santa Cruz City Schools in Northern California is replacing its student information system (SIS) with Infinite Campus in a deployment that's expected to be completed in early 2009.
Blue Valley School District of Johnson County, KS is successfully using statistical analysis software to foster dramatic improvements in student standardized test scores from the diagnostics at the beginning of the school year to the state exams at the end.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 03/17/09
Pentaho, a maker of open business intelligence (BI) software, is moving away from the Mozilla Public License for its BI product. The company announced this month that Version 2 alpha, as well as subsequent versions of its Pentaho BI platform, will be released under the GNU GPL Version 2 license.
Information Technology Trends
Worldwide IT spending and IT department budgets across public and private sectors are set to make something of a comeback following 2009's drastic declines. Further, all major segments in IT are expected to see positive growth in 2010, according to two separate reports released this week by market research firm Gartner Inc.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has awarded a contract to Claraview Inc., a business intelligence consultancy based in Reston, VA. According to the terms of the deal, Claraview will supply BI services to help improve student learning and help KDE in its efforts to comply with NCLB.
Administrators at Iredell-Statesville Schools in North Carolina have adopted Follett Software's TetraData DASH, an analytics and communications tool.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 04/17/08
How one of Ohio’s
lowest-performing
elementary schools
raised its third-grade
reading test scores by
a whopping 124 percent.
IBM said this week it's entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cognos, a firm that provides business intelligence technologies to K-12 and higher education and other sectors. The deal is still dependent on shareholder and regulatory approval and other conditions but is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008 and is valued at about $5 billion.
A head-to-head look
at how 13 antivirus
solutions stack up.
Fairfax County, VA, has selected a package of solutions provided by SAP to streamline the administrative responsibilities of its county government and public school system.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 09/14/09
Cherry Creek School District in Colorado is revamping its administrations and replacing legacy systems with new enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools for finance, purchasing, and human resources management.
Akron Public Schools (APS) of Akron, OH, is deploying the Munis enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution from Tyler Technologies.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 12/18/09
Greenville County Schools in Greenville, SC has chosen the enterprise software from St. Paul-based Lawson Software to streamline its administrative functions and financial data management.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 09/15/09
Moodlerooms and Datatel have teamed to integrate learning management functionality with enterprise resource planning (ERP). The integration combines Moodlerooms' learning management "platform" with Datatel's Colleague ERP system to give institutions a more complete view of their students.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/19/09