Business Intelligence


Tips for Getting Your Technology Projects Funded

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.

IT in a Time of Budget Cuts How School Funding Will Affect the Quality of Education

States are in the worst financial situation in 50 years. Collectively, they are running budget deficits in the range of $50 billion.

Successful Strategies for Saving & Securing Technology Funding

The greatest change in schools in the last two decades, without a doubt, has been the onset of technology within districts and campuses.

The Litany

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."

Dissecting a Network-Based Education System

The methods used to design the Alabama Learning Exchange can be replicated to create your own efficient, cost-effective, network-based education systems.

Making the Switch to Open Source Software

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.

Classrooms With Wi-Fi

Wi-fi technologies will soon permeate classrooms in schools and colleges just as they have started to enter business conference rooms.

The NEW DIGITAL CAMPUS

Higher education decision makers are faced with a question that has serious organizational and monetary implications...

New Beginnings

Kansas District Uses Statistical Data To Improve Standardized Test Scores

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.

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Pentaho's BI Platform Released Under GPL

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.

A Fresh Start

The New HP

Kentucky DOE Taps BI Firm for NCLB Compliance

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.

Case Study: Data Warehousing at Hillsborough County Public Schools

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.

Northern CA District To Upgrade Student Data Management

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.

Road Warriors on Trojan Horses

A head-to-head look at how 13 antivirus solutions stack up.

Inform 4.2 Adds Academic Intervention Plan

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.

Bolstering a University’s Campus Security

How one of Ohio’s lowest-performing elementary schools raised its third-grade reading test scores by a whopping 124 percent.

IBM To Nab BI Tech Firm Cognos

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.

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CCUMC Conference

North Carolina District Adopts Data-Driven Approach to Instruction

Administrators at Iredell-Statesville Schools in North Carolina have adopted Follett Software's TetraData DASH, an analytics and communications tool.

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