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T.H.E. Journal July 2005 John O'Connell & Gary Phye	Creating Strategies for Improved Teaching and Learning Iowa relies on technology to tackle problems with teacher quality and student achievement.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf	Using Technology to Improve Achievement: Making Data Relevant New information systems are helping states and districts individualize instruction and boost student learning.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Brenda Williams	Leadership & Advocacy: Integrating Technology to Improve Student Learning West Virginia works to create a statewide technology infrastructure with student achievement as the ultimate focus of leadership.
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Christine Fox	Elementary Schools : The Time Is Now Early diagnosis of academic deficits is pivotal to keeping students from falling irretrievably behind. Formative assessment technology gives teachers the tools to respond.
T.H.E. Journal February 2007 Charlene O'Hanlon	1-to-1 Computing :: A Measure of Success The first rounds of data are in, and districts are evaluating the impact of their 1-to-1 programs. With the results showing a revolution in teaching and learning, the task now is to find ways to keep the funding alive.
T.H.E. Journal June 2004 Mark Schneiderman	A Closer Look at Scientifically Based Research - What Does SBR Mean for Education Technology? Driven by budgetary and accountability pressures, K-12 education decision-makers have increased their demand for evidence of effectiveness and a return on their investment in technology.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Christine Fox	Using Technology to Expand Opportunity: Going Virtual Online courses can get to people and places beyond the reach of the traditional school setting, serving the needs of students and teachers nationwide.
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Deborah L. Lowther	Professional Development :: Tennessee An unconventional initiative embedded full-time technology coaches in Tennessee public schools, resulting in demonstrable boosts in teacher confidence and student engagement.
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Christine Fox	Alabama Gets on Board The changes seen in the Roanoke City Schools in the four years since Tools for Life was launched are remarkable.
T.H.E. Journal July 2005 Nicole Honore	Going the Distance to Hold Teachers Accountable Louisiana receives national recognition for its flexible online professional development program that helps improve the quality of classroom teachers statewide.
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Sloane O'Neal	The Impact of ESEA's Scientifically Based Research Requirement on Schools' Technology Solutions This requirement, that districts implement products and programs founded on scientifically based research, is one of the bill's greatest strengths. When coupled with effective professional development, these educational solutions represent an overwhelmingly positive move.
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Mary Ann Wolf	Systemic School Reform :: A Guiding Hand A systemic approach to school reform demands leaders with vision, who understand how every step of their efforts fits together to support teachers and benefit students.
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.
T.H.E. Journal January 7, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Netbooks All Around Missouri-based North Kansas City Schools with a total of 18,000 students, kicked off its 1:1 initiative about two years ago in an effort to equip all 5,600 of its high school students with netbooks.
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Dan Gordon	Profile :: Steven Paine West Virginia's superintendent of schools argues that classroom technology use is at the core of 21st-century learning.
T.H.E. Journal July 1, 2009 David Nagel	Meta-Analysis: Is Blended Learning Most Effective? The United States Department of Education reported recently that it's found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves.
T.H.E. Journal July 2005 Rigeman & McIntire	Enhancing Curriculum and Instruction Through Technology Iowa school districts implement a technology-rich, research-based math program to meet the No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB) Title II D: Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) goals.
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua	A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 John K. Waters	Maine Ingredients The nation's first-ever statewide 1-to-1 laptop program marks its seventh birthday by expanding into high schools, providing an occasion to celebrate - and to examine the components of its success.
National Defense June 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Waning Education Standards Threaten U.S. Competitiveness High-quality education is critical to national security, and the United States must address a number of challenges in its educational system if it wants to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy and in key technologies.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mainwaring & Bergma	South Carolina: Tech-Savvy Teachers South Carolina's innovative ePortfolio system is helping educators get up to speed on technology and become more comfortable integrating new tools into their classrooms.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
T.H.E. Journal June 2003 Cathy J. Poplin	Models of Professional Development This article focuses on the models of professional development used by a variety of U.S. Technology Innovation Challenge Grant programs. A large number of 1998 projects are highlighted.
T.H.E. Journal December 3, 2009 Bridget McCrea	Keeping on Task in a Digital Environment It doesn't take much to disrupt an entire high school classroom and get a student off task, particularly when that student is using a desktop or laptop computer to finish a lesson.
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010	Reshaping RTI: Building a Better Triangle Virginia Buysse is a senior scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where a research program she helped develop detects and addresses learning deficits through intervention in early childhood.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010	Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom.
T.H.E. Journal March 8, 2010 David Nagel	i3 Innovation Grant Program Opens The United States Department of Education has released final priorities and opened the application process for the Investing in Innovation Fund, also known as "i3," a $650 million grant program.
T.H.E. Journal March 5, 2010 David Nagel	National Ed Tech Plan Advocates Radical Reforms in Schools The U.S. Department of Education released the first public draft of the National Education Technology Plan. The document reveals an intent not only to infuse technology throughout the curriculum, but to implement some major changes to education itself.
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Anita Givens	Systemic School Reform :: Texas Texas' TIP program packages six key technology resources to create a digitally rich environment that has helped turn at least one low-performing school into a recognized success.
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 Hofer, Chamberlin & Scot	Fulfilling the Need for a Technology Integration Specialist A look at the current role of a school-based technology coordinator.
T.H.E. Journal August 2008	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships WestEd, Quantum Receive $2.8 Million Grant for AI Research... Netop Acquires Genevalogic... First 21st-Century Skills Map Debuts... etc.
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Mary Ann Wolf	High Schools : An Equation That Works As secondary students continue to show little interest in the four STEM subjects, combining technology use with engaging instructional practices may be the only way to reach them.
T.H.E. Journal August 1999 Jody C. Isernhagen	Technology: A Major Catalyst for Increasing Learning "If you can conceive of it, you can achieve it." (Kennedy Space Center, Florida) A rural Nebraska public school district adopted this philosophy when they applied for a three-year competitive Excellence in Education Grant in late 1995....
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 David L. Silvernail	Middle Schools : Maine : Laptops for All Since its launch, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) has provided all of the state's middle school students, and their teachers, with laptop computers.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters	Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical.
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel	Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States.
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 David Nagel	EETT Eliminated in 2011 Obama Budget Proposal Despite an overall $3.5 billion increase in education spending, the proposed $3.8 trillion 2011 budget zeroed out the only federal source of funding specifically dedicated to education technology.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Jeff Weinstock	Data-Driven Decision-Making: Mission Accomplished Two districts, one goal: to use data to drive decision-making. Both have achieved breakthroughs, discovering new ways to draw insights from student performance, and then step in to better it.
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources.
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	A Sobering Survey A look at new data on how colleges of education are using technology, courtesy of a recent Project Tomorrow survey of preservice teachers' views on technology use.
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010	A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom.
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush	Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development.
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Paul Tullis	An 'A' in Abstractions In Tucson's Catalina Foothills School District, educators and administrators have decided to go all in on 21st century skills, and in so doing have revamped every subject area from K through 12.
T.H.E. Journal November 5, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired.
Information Today February 19, 2015	New Bill Could Increase Students' Technology Access Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) proposed a bill that would allow teachers, principals, and district leaders to upgrade their curricula to emphasize technology as an avenue for student achievement.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Educators Awarded Environmental PD Courses... Microsoft Honors Innovative Educators... Google Offers Free Education Apps...
T.H.E. Journal July 2005 Knudson & Cantrell	A New Competitive Grant Model for Nevada The Nevada Department of Education uses a comprehensive program to measure the benefit to students of a technology package (computer, LCD projector, internet access and web-based instruction) delivered to teachers. Some results were exciting and not expected.
T.H.E. Journal May 2008 John K. Waters	Together at Last Left out of the digital revolution for too long, special education is finally being integrated into student information systems.