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Reports on the cost of updated version of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Act on federal spending in the U.S. Identification of disabled students; Reduction of paper works for teachers; Approval of the bill by the Senate.

Investigates the involvement of various students to the cheating incident in Chicago, Illinois. Accounts on the inability of school personnel to ensure the security of test papers; Details on the test clues provided by teachers to the students taking the exam; Measures taken by education administrators to reprimand and punish violators.

Celebrates the 100th anniversary of the school newspaper 'Current Events.' History of the newspaper; News covered by the paper; Aim of the publication to enhance student test scores.

Reports that the U.S. Supreme Court decided that teachers can continue the age-old practice of asking students to swap papers and grade one another's work.

Focuses on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on the legality of students correcting one anothers' papers. History of the legal fight; Questions on the whether the court should dictate classroom administration; Support of the National Education Association on peer grading.

The article evaluates education technology products including the PowerLite Presenter projectors by Epson, a software program called The Geometer's Sketchpad by Key Curriculum Press which has image editing and algebraic and geometric functions, and an interactive whiteboard with dual touch by Smartboard Technologies.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Get random selections of school-reform papers written by nontenured teacher education professors in every state. Material sold conveniently by the pound, so order as big a load as you need. [...]

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 [...]

www.plagiarism-finder.com Internet, Single license $125 This online program compares any digital document-such as a presentation, final project or term paper--to billions of Web pages. After completing the scan, it highlights [...]

The days of quarterly parent-teacher meetings and paper correspondence in Philadelphia may become a thing of the past. The city has taken steps to build the largest wireless network in [...]

A teacher tears an interesting editorial cartoon out of the morning paper and uses it to spark a classroom discussion. Editorial cartoons as supplemental materials in social studies and other [...]

Wireless Generation www.wirelessgeneration.com Wireless Generation has adapted a variety of paper-based reading assessment instruments for use on Palm handhelds: mCLASS:Reading, mCLASS:TPRI, mCLASS:DIBELS and mCLASS:PALS. Teachers follow passages of text on [...]

www. scansoft.com, Software, $599.99 ($199.99 to upgrade) The latest version of this office management software does not require manual reproduction of documents and spreadsheets. Users can convert paper and PDF [...]

www.writenote.com, Software, High school site licenses from $1,000-$3,400/year WriteNote is a Web-based research and writing tool for organizing term papers. It allows students to use library resources in their native [...]

www.seikosmart. com/products/ inklink.html $100 Seiko Instruments' new InkLink Handwriting System inputs paper notes and drawings into any handheld computer with an IR port. Simply attach its InkLink Data Clip to [...]

Aiming to merge the notebook computer with the traditional pen-and-paper concept of note-taking, the Tablet PC is a new computer category that helps solve some of the major barriers to [...]

A former teacher is on a roll--as in toilet paper roll. Tom Keating started the Project Clean campaign from Decatur, Ga., six years ago, using about $25,000 of his money [...]

www.collegeboard.com, Internet, $1.10-$1.50 for each assessment This writing assessment for ESL students can be used as a computer-administered online or traditional paper administered test. The tools take into account the [...]

Accelerated Math® math management software helps teachers dramatically increase student math achievement in grades 1 through calculus. Accelerated Math prints unique assignments tailored for each student's ability, scores papers automatically, [...]

Kristja Falvo, a mother of four, started the legal right to change the practice of students correcting one anothers' papers. That was 1998, when her son, Philip, was in sixth [...]

FS Creations, www.fscreations.com, software, $49.99-$129 per instructor ExamView Pro Version 3.5 offers the ability to create paper and online tests and study guides in minutes. The newest version features test [...]