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NEWS ALERT ...

Tech-savvy schools reclaim millions
When officials at the San Diego City Schools decided to convert the district's special-education system to a new computerized tracking database, it marked the beginning of the end to a long-running bureaucratic nightmare for special-education director Carolyn Nunes....

GRANT ALERT ...

    Up to 1 million books for needy kids through Scholastic's Book Club
    The Scholastic Book Clubs ClassroomsCare is a philanthropy-based literacy campaign designed to teach children about the joys and importance of reading and giving. For each class that reads 100 books by Dec. 31, Scholastic Book Clubs will donate 100 books to disadvantaged children nationwide....
    Deadline: December 31, 2004

WEEK'S TOP NEWS ...

    eRate flows again;'04 apps still pending
    eRate officials on Nov. 3 announced they have enough cash on hand to start mailing funding-commitment decision letters this week to schools and libraries that have been waiting longest for answers. Meanwhile, Washington lobbyists are pushing....

    T+L� message: Raise the bar on ed tech
    A clear theme emerged at the National School Boards Association's annual T+L� Conference in Denver Oct. 27-29: School technology has come a long way, but it's time to take the next step....

    Hey, coach: Get a video game
    Simplice Njoya, a University of Memphis basketball forward, sat hunched over a laptop, testing an idea first studied on Israeli fighter pilots. The premise: Skills he picks up playing a complex computer game can make him a better ball player....

    Microsoft debuts web search engine
    Students, teachers, and librarians now have a new internet search tool at their disposal: Software giant Microsoft Corp. finally debuted its own web search technology on Nov. 11, hoping to challenge Google Inc.'s long dominance of the field with results....

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    Kurzweil Educational Systems joins
    NCLD to recognize excellence in teaching

    From Kurzweil Educational Systems Inc., Nov. 3--Kurzweil Educational Systems Inc., innovator of reading technology for individuals with learning or visual disabilities, announced the winner of its annual Kurzweil 3000 Software Award given in conjunction with the National Center for Learning Disabilities' (NCLD) Bill Ellis Teacher Preparation Award....

    School District of Philadelphia boosts math scores with Holt materials
    From Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Nov. 8--Holt, Rinehart and Winston announced that the School District of Philadelphia recorded an 11.1 percentage point increase in the number of eighth grade students scoring in the Advanced/Proficient performance level in the math portion of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) during the 2003-04 school year, the first year that Mathematics in Context (MiC) has been used throughout the district....

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