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....
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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....
NEW eSN ONLINE FEATURE ...
...
PARTNERS UPDATE ...
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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RESOURCES FOR
EDUCATORS
Controlling
Technology Costs
Educators often complain that funding--especially for
technology--is in too short
a supply.
But with a sophisticated command of what's genuinely
needed, what's available,
and how much it should cost, school leaders just might find they can buy much
more of what
they really need than they ever thought possible.
SPECIAL
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IP
Telephony
IP telephony, a packet-switching technology that transmits phone calls
over
a
data network, reduces the load on a network by minimizing the time a connection
is
kept
open.
Schools
have
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voice and data into a single network can
be more efficient and
help reduce phone costs.
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