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.
Enterprise Resource Planning | News
Cobb County School District, the second largest school district in Georgia, will implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to streamline services and increase data security.
- By Mike Hohenbrink
- 01/05/12
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.
Business Intelligence
Numbers crunching isn’t what it used to be. What might once have been the task of a minimalist keypunch is now an elaborate operation presided over by dedicated business intelligence (BI) systems. No one knows this better than the enterprise. Companies of all sizes must translate their mountains of raw data into meaningful insights and actionable information. The ability to do so has evolved from a competitive differentiator into a mission-critical function.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/10
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.
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Development | News
Oracle has released a new version of its PeopleSoft development and customization platform, PeopleTools. Version 8.52 includes enhancements to the user interface and reporting tools, as well as iPad support for all versions of PeopleSoft.
Industry News
Microsoft Wednesday announced that SQL Server 2008 R2 has achieved release-to-manufacturing status and will be released in May worldwide.
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.
Business Intelligence
Two school districts in financially parched California are working with Oracle to develop and implement state-mandated data systems using business intelligence software for managing and analyzing individual student data.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/01/10
K-12 ERP | News
In an effort to decrease administrative costs, North East Independent School District (NEISD) of San Antonio, TX is making a move to enterprise resource planning (ERP). The already cost-conscious district cited a need to realize savings through improved operational efficiency while upgrading IT system functionality at the same time.
- By Evan Tassistro
- 08/11/10
Student Data
Butler Technology and Career Development Schools in Ohio is overhauling its student data system and implementing a new portal solution to tie in with its LMS.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/01/10
Administrative Tools | News
Anson County Schools (ACS) of Wadesboro, NC, has adopted performance management to allow it to communicate to stakeholders and the broader community its progress in achieving strategic commitments to education.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 09/30/10
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
ERP | News
Microsoft this week announced plans to release its Dynamics SL 2011 enterprise resource planning solution in the second quarter of next year.
IT Industry News
Microsoft debuted the latest version of its Dynamics NAV 2009 at Directions EMEA 2010 in Prague, noting it will be available in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Microsoft plans to roll out a new connector for its Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that can hook up with SAP's Business Suite ERP.
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
Administrative Tools
Business software maker SAS, whose initial product was conceived in a university, is seeking to expand its footprint in the education market.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/15/10
Enterprise Resource Planning | News
Clovis Unified School District and Saddleback Valley Unified School District in California have moved to an integrated solution for their enterprise resource planning.
Business & Administrative Tools
Microsoft has released a finance management reporting solution that's designed to work with its Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) products.
Administration
Carmel Clay Schools of Carmel, IN, is moving to GlobalScholar's Pinnacle Insight as its data management system in an ongoing effort to improve data-driven decision making in the district.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 03/18/10
Data Centers | News
One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft this week unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/20/11
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