| 'Dashboards' Provide Data Designed To Help Parents Rate School Performance |  |
| U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has unveiled a new tool to show the public a snapshot of how schools fare in reading and math achievement, graduation rates and participation in challenging Advanced Placement exams. |  |
| 'Probeware' On Increase In Schools' Science Labs | |
| Turning students into apprentice scientists has long been a goal of K-12 science educators. But it's been many years since real scientists used the paper logs, alcohol thermometers, balances, stopwatches, meter sticks, and other gear that remain staples of many high school science labs. | |
| 1 To 1 Learning | |
| How do we take our classrooms into the future, empower teachers and students with the tools and functions for the challenges ahead, and enable deep, sustained learning? Providing every student and teacher with his or her own laptop computer is one important step we can take to achieve those goals. However, this end result cannot be achieved overnight. | |
| 11-Year-Old Boy Takes School Network By The Horns | |
| When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Sherwood, Ark., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. | |
| 14 Tips For Negotiating Software Agreements | |
| A short article that provides information on how to successfully negotiate contracts with software vendors. | |
| 1:1 Computing | |
| the information in this guidebook can provide administrators with useful advice, practical strategies, and best practices to consider when implementing 1:1 computing. | |
| 2002-2003 Texas STaR (School Technology and Readiness) Chart | |
| Report on technology planning for K-12. Toward the end (search for bandwidth) there is a 4-level readiness rubric for schools/districts. | |
| 4JNet Acceptable Use Guidelines (PDF) | |
| An example of guidelines used in an Oregon school district for acceptable use of their electronic communications network. | |