Latest eSchool News
There are a number of interesting articles posted in eSchool News in the last month at their headlines website. I’d recommend reading:
- ED gives preview of new ed-tech plan, which looks at how the federal Department of Education is moving the national ed-tech plan away from infrastructure towards achievement, focusing on student data, online testing and online learning.
- Test scores fuel laptop debate, about the Maine project giving laptops to all middle school students. The first round of standardized testing shows no difference in achievement, but these tests were administered less than two years after the project began, so there’s lots of room for argument.
- Tablet PCs make mark in schools, which looks at several small colleges that have made these computers the standard student computing device, and
- House bill would slash ed-tech funding, which looks at the current proposal for Title IID funding in the House of representatives, which would cut Enhancing Education Through Technology funds by $91,000,000, or 13% (ouch).
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