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Iowa is not known for its mountains, but don't tell that to Juli Kwikkel. Kwikkel is an elementary principal in the rural district of Storm Lake, in the northwestern part [...]

Students and their families in the remote Rasht district of Tajikistan collect nuts and recycle scrap metal and paper to rent textbooks. The law requires students to rent books from [...]

One student generates about five pounds of waste in 180 days from simply drinking a carton of milk each day of the school year, according to the Carton Council, a [...]

Nearly half of Chicago Public Schools principals reported serious problems with rodents, roaches, filthy floors, overflowing garbage bins, missing supplies such as toilet paper and soap, and broken furniture since [...]

LEAPFROG'S JIM MARGGRAFF THINKS BIG. 'The potential of paper-based computing combined with the portability and affordability of the FLY pentop computer creates a situation where I project one billion FLY [...]

VARIQUEST Cutout Maker 1800 Electronic paper cutter Hardware, $5,995 The CutOut Maker 1800 is VariQuest's new electronic die-cutting system designed for education, and it gives teachers the ability to quickly [...]

Nearly all (95 percent) history teachers report that writing a research term paper is important or very important to learning the subject, and eight of 10 (79 percent) think district [...]

Problem: Without a modern and efficient network infrastructure, teachers and administrators at Memphis (Tenn.) City Schools were spending excessive time completing reports, leaving less time to improve educational processes and [...]

This book from the United Nations is for students and educators engaged in discussions and hands-on activities on such issues as health, environment, human rights and peace. Grades K-12 Call [...]

This book from the United Nations is for students and educators engaged in discussions and hands-on activities on such issues as health, environment, human rights and peace. Grades K-12 Call [...]

This book from the United Nations is for students and educators engaged in discussions and hands-on activities on such issues as health, environment, human rights and peace. Grades K-12 Call [...]

The bubble sheet is like the armadillo. While the evolution of school technology transforms the way kids learn and teachers teach, the bubble sheet--that avatar of the standardized test, that [...]

Focuses on strategies of Juli Kwikkel, an elementary principal, to cope up with the paperwork required in complying the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act in Storm Lake, Iowa. Requirements for NCLB-related grants; Number of enrolled students in his school; Aspects that NCLB is particular with.

The article looks at policies and programs in U.S. high schools designed to make students' senior year more rigorous and better prepare them for college. It states that by senior year, many students have already earned a majority of the required credits, have been accepted to college, and lack the motivation to focus. Initiatives designed to enrich the final year of high school include increased course loads, early graduation incentives, and senior projects such as papers and presentations.

This article reports that special education can eat districts alive. This was confirmed by Clark Easter, founder and chairman of 4GL School Solutions Inc. It devours 20 percent to 25 percent of the average district's budget with only 11 percent to 12 percent of students. Many special education teachers spend nearly half of the day buried under piles of paper. Inequitable resource allocation, staff burnout and turnover and near zealous focus on compliance rather than instruction further complicate the scene. A handful of districts have deployed technology-based special education management systems to save time and money and better serve special education students. INSET: The Software Checklist.

The article reports on North Grenville District high school, which is located north of the border in Kemptville, Ontario, but by placing palmOne handheld wireless computers in the hands of its 35 teachers this school about 45 minutes south of the Canadian capital Ottawa has moved to the heart of a brave new world. This fall, North Grenville High installed a new WiFi wireless network. And currently, the school is upgrading its palmOne fleet to WiFi-enahled Tungsten G models and adding eSIS software from MediaX that will let teachers take attendance with a click. Physical education teacher Sean Kelly uses his handheld to assess his students according to rubrics for skills in various sports. He estimates that he saves a half hour for every skill set he evaluates, compared to the paper and pencil routine he used to go through.

The article informs about a white paper pertaining to formative assessment mechanism, to examine the classroom activities. According to Edmundo Gonzalez of Software Technology Inc., there are teachers who have never used it, but once they start there is no going back. Formative Assessment and Its Uses for Improving Student Achievement is a new white paper commissioned by STI to study the evidence that these types of short, frequent tests result in improved instruction. Its conclusion: Research indicates that good, well-developed formative assessments do impact student learning, particularly for low achievers.

Jessica Cuthbertson's dental hygienist cleans the teeth of many unhappy teachers--exhausted, burned-out folks who feel pulled in too many directions and have too many papers to grade. Cuthbertson isn't one [...]

The highly qualified teacher requirement of No Child Left Behind is one tenet that everyone agrees sounds good on paper, yet no state was able to meet the 2005-2006 deadline [...]

At Lewis Elementary School in Portland, Ore., blog posts and e-mails have replaced paper notes stuffed in teachers' mailboxes. Staff meetings, now devoid of the exchange of routine information, are [...]

A step for districts going paperless is to stop accepting cash or paper checks from parents. Many school systems have had vendors set up secure online portals where parents can [...]

In the first year of the E-rate, schools filed paper applications (some of which got sent back for want of a blue-ink signature) and then waited eight months for funds [...]

The article highlights the benefits of technology-enhanced formative and interim assessments in the white paper from CTB/McGraw-Hill. This has emphasized their ability to accelerate learning among all students and help to close achievement gaps. The special report was entitled "Promoting Student Achievement Using Research-Based Assessment with Formative Benefits," delves into several independent studies to demonstrate that technology-enhanced formative assessment.

This article presents information on Larry Nyland, Ph.D Superintendent, Marysville Schools. He says that he brings together people who are passionate about student learning. Building a successful school system is something he tackled on paper when developing a superintendent preparation program for a Seattle university. It covers the need for positive relationships among staff and in the community. Two months into the job, Nyland learned his human resources director failed to give staff timely evaluations, then fudged dates to hide it.

The article informs that students in a Maryland High School will have a tough time if they try to doctor their report cards. River Hill High School in Howard County became one of a growing number of schools to use paper with a watermark to prevent students from altering their social studies, math or English marks on report cards. A 2001 study by the Center for Academic Integrity found 74 percent of high school students said they cheated at least once on a test. Karen Clifford, an executive board member of the center, says the issue has not been given enough attention at the secondary level.

Leadership is never more critical than when creating and sustaining a data-centric learning culture, as Lane Mills advises in a white paper (http://DAmag.me/416-1m) on how districts can access and integrate [...]

Nearly all Dallas ISD teachers had for years been meeting expectations, on paper, but student achievement data showed serious achievement gaps between white students and their black and Hispanic counterparts. [...]

PICTURE A BEHEMOTH MACHINE in a 6-by-6-foot room at Inver Grove Heights Junior High School in Minnesota with cables on all sides and a paper roll printing data that was [...]

PITSCO'S GREEN PROJECTS and products, Lexmark's paper program, and Lutron Electronics' Greenovation program are just a few curricular ideas that K12 classrooms are using to help districts save energy and [...]

www.sharpusa.com/documents Hardware, $8,015 and up These digital imagers deliver documentation reproduction with copy speeds of up to 35 and 45 pages per minute and up to 3,100 sheets of paper [...]

BOTH THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPABILITIES OF K12 INFORMATION technology have undergone a transformation over the years, according to 'The Future of Information Technology.' This white paper, released by the Consortium [...]

A NEW WHITE PAPER, RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER, CHARTS HOW to turn around a district by bolstering academics and creating a new culture of high expectations. 'Pathways to High Performance: Turning [...]

DESPITE THE GROWTH OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, WEB-BASED DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS and digital data systems, paper documents remain a vital part of K12 administration. Bubble sheet exams, parent communications, student academic and [...]

ARMED POLICE OFFICERS PATROL hallways and grounds in schools across the country. A new white paper from the ACLU, Policing in Schools: Developing a Governance Document for School Resource Officers [...]

FOR ME, PUTTING DATES TO PAPER CAN EASE STRESS, SO I HAVE CREATED A schedule of milestones and associated tasks that the editorial department needs to meet over the next [...]

EPEN&INC./M3DESIGNS PaperToolsPro online version, Writing Program Software, $75 per teacher plus $1 per student PaperToolsPro, a research management software program designed to help students write research papers and combat plagiarism, [...]

THE AUTHORS OF A NEW PAPER BY THE HOOVER INSTITUTE, a conservative think tank at Stanford University, predict that by 2019 half of courses in grades 9 through 12 will [...]

PROVO CRAFT Cricut Expression, Electronic Paper Cutter Hardware, $499.99 This new model is the largest size electronic cutter in the Cricut series. At 24 inches wide, it allows users to [...]

THE BENEFITS OF TECHNOLogy-enhanced formative and interim assessments are highlighted in a new white paper from CTB/McGraw-Hill, which touts their ability to accelerate learning among all students and help to [...]

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PROBLEM FOR PRINCIPAL DONALD PUTNAM OF RIVERSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL in Evans, Ga., doing teacher observations and evaluations each year used to involve hundreds of sheets of paper. Putnam, who along [...]

USING STI'S WEB-BASED ASSESSMENT system, Montgomery Public Schools in Alabama and Bay District Schools in Panama City, Fla., conduct online or paper tests and receive immediate results. Administrators can continuously [...]

www.paseries.com, Assessment program, $Z74-$19.74 per student This online or paper-based assessment program now includes separate guides for teachers and parents to help them understand assessment results and how to use [...]

www.scantron.com, Web-based program, $5-$9 per student/year This content-neutral, online testing platform helps educators develop and administer online and paper tests. With the new item editor, educators can enter item content, [...]

www.leapfrogschoolhouse.com Seminar, $3,500/25 participants This two-day course shares best teaching practices to help struggling readers overcome common barriers to reading success and features research findings from the company's white paper--Technology-Enhanced [...]

Aerosol Canisters, Free One aerosol can detect four major drug classifications. Users wipe a hand, or any surface area, with special paper, spray the swipe, then watch for potential color [...]

Waypoint Web-based software, $95 for individual license to $2,495 for a site license Teachers spend a lot of time writing comments on student papers. This new Web-based software program allows [...]

Pennovate www.pennovate.com Cultivate creativity with the freedom of 'pen and paper while harnessing the power and convenience of digital! Pennovate software and proven user interface provide a cost effective way [...]

6.0 www.PrincipiaProducts.com Software, $895/single user license This new version allows users to scan virtually any plain paper OMR form, without the need for registration marks or special inks. The data [...]

First I saw the smoke, then the fire. In the alley stood a half dozen teens pitching books, notes and papers into a flaming trash can. I approached the group [...]