| High Performance Wireless |  |
| The HPWREN team's first wireless link in conjunction with the Native American rural education community involved the Pala Native American Indian reservation, which is home to more than 600 tribal members - including more than 150 children who attend elementary school on the reservation. |  |
| Mobile Computing | |
| Collection of articles on the effects of mobile computing | |
| Public-Private Education Facilities And Infrastructure | |
| Grants responsible public entities the authority to create public-private partnerships for the development of a range of projects. | |
| Building Virtual Communities | |
| This article discusses online communities and factors that lead to success in online communities the most important of which is the role of the community organizer. Online communities is an innovative strategy for establishing cross-functional teams as members do not have to find a common meeting location or time. | |
| Schools Mull Needs Of Adult Distance Learners | |
| Many ed-tech advocates have voiced support for distance learning as a way for K-12 students to take courses not offered at their regular schools or enroll in courses for college credit. But another group of learners--adults who turn to distance learning to return or expand their schooling--is attracting more and more national attention. | |
| Denair (CA) Unified School District - Rural, 1580 Students (PDF) | |
| All school sites in this district are at a single location, and they have run a fiber optic cable down the middle of the district, connecting all campuses to a gigabit local area network. The district utilizes systemwide e-mail, has telephones and intercoms installed in every classroom, and has a strong Web presence accessed by parents, with individual campuses and even individual teachers updating site pages. They are working towards having all staff acknowledge and use these communications systems that parents are expecting. | |
| Effectiveness Of Reading And Mathematics Software Products: Findings From The First Student Cohort (PDF) | |
| The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance produced this major study of the effectiveness of education technology. Mandated by Congress, the report uses scientifically based research methods and control groups to focus on the impact of technology on student academic achievement. Thirty-three districts, 132 schools, and 439 teachers participated in the study. Sixteen products were selected for the study based on public submissions and ratings by a study team and expert review panels. This report is the first of two from the study. The second report will present effects for individual products. The current report presents effects for groups of products. The main findings of the study are: (1) Test scores were not significantly higher in classrooms using the reading and mathematics software products than those in control classrooms. In each of the four groups of products-reading in first grade and in fourth grade, mathematics in sixth grade, and high school algebra-the evaluation found no significant differences in student achievement between the classrooms that used the technology products and classrooms that did not; and (2) There was substantial variation between schools regarding the effects on student achievement. Although the study collected data on many school and classroom characteristics, only two characteristics were related to the variation in reading achievement. For first grade, effects were larger in schools that had smaller student-teacher ratios (a measure of class size). For fourth grade, effects were larger when treatment teachers reported higher levels of use of the study product. | |
| Hot Technologies For K-12 Schools: The 2005 Guide For Technology Decision Makers (PDF) | |
| This is a report for CTO's and other technology decision makers. It is designed to help these individuals sort through emerging educational technologies and decide on options that may be appropriate for their school or district. The authors identify five key issues facing educational leaders today and the new technologies that may address these issues. | |
| Mapping Educational Progress 2008 | |
| Six years after No Child Left Behind's passage, we have collected more data than ever before about the academic performance of our students and schools. See data on how we're doing as a nation -- student achievement in reading and math, high school graduation rates, schools making adequate yearly progress, highly qualified teachers, parents taking advantage of tutoring and choice options, state participation in flexibility options, and more. | |
| On-line Tutoring For Math Achievement Testing: A Controlled Evaluation (PDF) | |
| We report the results of a controlled evaluation of an interactive on-line tutoring system for high school math achievement test problem solving. High school students (N = 202) completed a math pre-test and were then assigned by teachers to receive interactive on-line multimedia tutoring or their regular classroom instruction. The on-line tutored students improved on the post-test, but the effect was limited to problems involving skills tutored in the on-line system (within-group control). Control group students showed no improvement. Students' use of interactive multimedia hints predicted pre- to post-test improvement, and benefits of tutoring were greatest for students with weakest initial math skills. | |
| Schools Could Be The First In U.S. To Use WiMax | |
| The Federal Communications Commission has set a 2008 deadline for schools to either use or auction their portions of the spectrum. Some plan to use it for WiMax. | |