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.
States are in the worst financial situation in 50 years. Collectively, they are running budget deficits in the range of $50 billion.
The greatest change in
schools in the last two decades, without a doubt,
has been the onset of technology within districts
and campuses.
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."
The methods used to design the Alabama Learning
Exchange can be replicated to create your own efficient, cost-effective, network-based education systems.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A head-to-head look
at how 13 antivirus
solutions stack up.
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.
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.
Administrators at Iredell-Statesville Schools in North Carolina have adopted Follett Software's TetraData DASH, an analytics and communications tool.