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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 May 2003 Neah J. Lohr |
Implementing the Complexities of NCLB Wisconsin's approach to overcoming the law's challenges and closing the achievement gap |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships NCLB Draft a Boost for ed Tech... Grant Moves STEM Experts to Teach... Metametrics Launches Lexile Framework for Writing... etc. |
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 January 2004 Weaver & Fernley |
Tips for Getting Your Educational Technology Projects Funded Two points are important no matter what grant or source of funding you are looking at. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2008 Rama Ramaswami |
Make It Stretch As technology funding dwindles, districts must use the resources they do have to maximum advantage. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Was I Wrong on Obama? We have an administration that believes in the power of technology in education, but wants to take a radically different approach to encouraging its use, shifting away from funding through loosely structured grants to having ed tech use integrated across all educational programs. |
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 28, 2009 David Nagel |
Obama Pushes for Education Reform with $4.35 Billion in Competitive Grants President Barack Obama is calling on states and districts to set higher standards for student achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 John Bailey |
Making the Case: Research Efforts on Educational Technology The U.S. Department of Education is investing more than $56 million to study the conditions and practices under which technology is used to document its impact on student performance. |
Teacher Magazine May 2000 Jennifer Pricola |
Grants Application deadlines for grants and fellowships available to individuals and schools. |
Geotimes June 2004 Emily Lehr Wallace |
Science Funding Left Behind No Child Left Behind stymies the National Science Foundation program in fiscal year 2005. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Frances Bryant Bradburn |
Professional Development: Preloading Professional Development to Ensure Potential Success For North Carolina's IMPACT Model School Grant applicants, professional development started long before a single dollar was ever awarded. |
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 September 2007 John K. Waters |
Corporate Foundations :: Enterprise to the Rescue! Stepping in where they claim schools are failing to act, leading technology companies are funding endowments to support teaching 21st-century skills to tomorrow's workforce. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Bloomfield & Cooper |
NCLB: A New Role for the Federal Government An overview of the most sweeping federal education law since 1965 |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Make Ed Tech a Priority I remain convinced that the Obama administration recognizes that the use of technology across all aspects of the education enterprise is critical to bringing about changes to our country's education system. I am less convinced that they know how to get that done. |
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. |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2009 Nancy K. Herther |
Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding There are actually many different types of support available to researchers |
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 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 October 6, 2009 David Nagel |
i3 To Fund 'Cutting Edge' School Reforms The program is designed to encourage and reward innovations in education that close achievement gaps, improve proficiency levels, improve graduation rates, or work to recruit and retain high-quality teachers and principals. |
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 July 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Using Technology to Maintain Competitiveness: How to Get Our Groove Back As China and India threaten the supremacy of the US economy, our best hope for keeping pace is putting ed tech funding to use to galvanize education. |
T.H.E. Journal September 30, 2009 David Nagel |
States Look To Raise Reading Proficiency in Title I Schools The United States Department of Education is awarding $6.61 million in grants to eight states to help improving reading achievement among poorer students. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2008 |
SIIA Lays Out a Vision for Change With defined goals and benchmarks, the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) new initiative urges increasing technology use in K-20 classrooms... No Child Left Behind Act prompts major curriculum shifts... etc. |
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 October 2007 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Follow the Money Federal largesse only goes so far. So to support their technology programs, districts are pursuing funding sources in the state, local, corporate, and taxpayer ranks. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2006 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Can Elmo Help Kids Learn Their ABCs?... New Students Are Logging in to Virtual Schools... NASA Announces New Aeronautics Competition... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
President Ed Tech Following a rough ride with the Bush administration, only one candidate offers the policies and vision that can reinvigorate our industry and help our students gain a foothold on the future. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2007 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships K-12 leaders call for an enterprising approach to data management... Students feted for multimedia projects... Security firm raises spyware awareness... etc. |
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 William C. Symonds |
The Reform Of School Reform Business is replacing the old piecemeal approach with ambitious efforts to revamp education on a far larger scale. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Garrett Dikkers et al. |
A Bridge to Success There is a no man's land between the recognized need for tech-process, and our still-developing sense of best practice and how to leverage this really powerful tool to get kids learning in exciting ways. |
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 2004 Anita Givens |
Technology Integration: Meeting the Technology Integration Challenge in Texas Schools Deep in the heart of Texas classrooms, students use digital technology to access, analyze and evaluate information; solve problems; and communicate with diverse audiences. |
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 Greene & Symonds |
Bill Gates Gets Schooled Why Bill Gates and other execs have struggled in their school reform efforts, and why they keep trying. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Digital media benefits preparation for primary school... Houghton Mifflin will donate trees to schools... Website will promote science careers for girls... Schools are rated for online security... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2005 |
Grant Program Helps Integrate Technology Into the Classroom InfoSource is accepting applications for its grant program, awarding $2.5 million in online tools and training to school districts. |
Fast Company January 2006 Wendy Zellner |
The Gates Effect The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to fix American high schools. Is it laying its enormous bets in the right places? |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Christine Fox |
More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Scale Growing your innovative programs isn't just about adding more users. A new framework requires educators to stretch old notions of what scaling is and how it can be successful. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2001 Ruth Watson |
The Trumbull County Community Network Project In the early 1990s, the school districts of Trumbull County, OH were similar to most schools in the amount of technology available to teachers, administrators and students. The project that changed that situation made an organized effort to infuse technology into K-12 schools... |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Lisa Snell |
Schoolhouse Crock Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything... |
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 June 2007 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Contest Winners 'Amazed' by New Classroom Projectors... Charp Honoree Gets Ticket to NECC... Online Language Arts Course Introduced... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Henson & Steele |
Systemic School Reform :: South Dakota You may still find the occasional barn raising and one-room schoolhouse, but a plan for technologically advanced schools that first took root more than a decade ago has ushered South Dakota into the digital age. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Jerry Bates |
Professional Development: Technology Coaches in the Workplace: Professional Development Takes a New Spin in Tennessee Tennessee's technology coaches are the key people in a varied and innovative site-based professional development program launched with the state's competitive EdTech grant program. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships This year's Charp honoree is a once low-performing New York district that reformed itself... Lutron Electronics' Greenovation energy education program has announced the start of its 2009 Bright Green Dream School Sustainability Challenge... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships US Schools Leaving Mobile Devices Idle... Whitmore Lake HS Pilots Green Tech Courses... Online Safety Contest Launches... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2008 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships A new study says the potential educational benefits of interactive technologies remain untapped... Curriculum Associates will integrate its line of instructional reading and math programs with Let's Go Learn... etc. |