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T.H.E. Journal July 2008 David L. Silvernail	Middle Schools : Maine : Laptops for All Since its launch, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) has provided all of the state's middle school students, and their teachers, with laptop computers.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Manchester, Muir & Moulton	Technology Integration: Maine Learns' Maine is the first state to make real implementation of one-to-one computing through the Maine Learning Technology Initiative by having the provision of a laptop computer for every public school student and teacher in grades 7-12.
T.H.E. Journal March 2007 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Service Disagreement A lack of precedence on how to charge for ongoing support for technology purchases has created an unhealthy divide between vendors and educators.
T.H.E. Journal January 7, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Netbooks All Around Missouri-based North Kansas City Schools with a total of 18,000 students, kicked off its 1:1 initiative about two years ago in an effort to equip all 5,600 of its high school students with netbooks.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Christine Fox	More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement.
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Christine Fox	Alabama Gets on Board The changes seen in the Roanoke City Schools in the four years since Tools for Life was launched are remarkable.
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010	A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom.
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Matt Villano	1-to-1 Computing: Teaming Up to Go 1-to-1 Districts are discovering that the secret to implementing a good laptop program is finding a good partner.
T.H.E. Journal March 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	A Laptop for Every...Teacher! Is the laptop program good technology policy? It depends.
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Catherine Wambach	Smart Classroom: From Revolutionary to Evolutionary: 10 Years of 1-to-1 Computing Laptop initiatives are now a decade old. Once a point of controversy, they have become the cornerstone of every district's technology hopes.
T.H.E. Journal January 8, 2010 Jeff Weinstock	Left to Their Own Devices Cienega High in Vail, AZ launched a bring-your-own-laptop program in about a dozen classes.
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Manchester, Mao & Puentedura	Systemic School Reform :: Maine The MLTI prides itself on securing funding for ed tech, providing teacher training that meets specific schools' needs, and building learning communities.
T.H.E. Journal February 2007 Charlene O'Hanlon	1-to-1 Computing :: A Measure of Success The first rounds of data are in, and districts are evaluating the impact of their 1-to-1 programs. With the results showing a revolution in teaching and learning, the task now is to find ways to keep the funding alive.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters	Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical.
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 John K. Waters	Now What? We put the question to a host of K-12 IT leaders: If you had a one-shot chance to spend a big sum of technology money, where would you begin? Here are their shopping lists.
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	A Revolution on Hold In their push toward using digital content in the classroom, many schools are stuck in second gear until basic changes to both infrastructure and entrenched habits are made. But even as school districts grapple with making those changes, policymakers have begun to move forward.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Safe at Home Combining high-tech safeguards with face-to-face user education is a must for schools whose laptop programs allow students to take the computers off-site.
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.
T.H.E. Journal August 2005 Una Daly	The Hidden Costs of Wireless Computer Labs Mobile labs may bring us a step closer to one-to-one computing, but with the proliferation of security problems and tech support issues, are they really ready to replace dedicated computer labs?
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Grayson	The Expandable Classroom: Walls That Move! "Learning needs to be highly flexible and adaptable," says Konrad Judd, principal and lead designer for SHW Group. "With the integration of technology it's more necessary than ever."
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Henson & Steele	Systemic School Reform :: South Dakota You may still find the occasional barn raising and one-room schoolhouse, but a plan for technologically advanced schools that first took root more than a decade ago has ushered South Dakota into the digital age.
InternetNews September 13, 2010	CCNY Student Data Exposed in Laptop Heist Some 7,000-plus students attending the City College of New York are learning that some of their most sensitive personal information was exposed when a school laptop was stolen last month.
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Jacob Milner	Warming Up To Wireless As wireless technology takes hold in school districts, the biggest challenge is getting teachers to embrace it, to take student learning to a new level.
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources.
T.H.E. Journal February 4, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests.
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski	They're Taking Requests: Student Techs Command the Help Desk Varun Kumar, the technology coordinator at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY, has it good. His workforce consists of Bryant High students, members of the Mouse Squad, a student-based IT support program.
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Middle Schools : Strike Up the Bandwidth Are districts suitably prepared for the ever-increasing need for faster connectivity in our schools?
T.H.E. Journal February 25, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Bolstering Support for High Needs Students with Technology For teachers in the Thunder Bay (Ontario) Catholic School District, it's not a question of if they will get the chance to teach an autistic or "high-needs" student. It's a matter of when it will happen.
T.H.E. Journal March 2008 Matt Villano	Five on Five: A Dialogue on Profession Development A quintet of educators gathers to sound off on what works and what doesn't in the ongoing mission to train teachers to use technology in classroom instruction.
T.H.E. Journal February 2008 John K. Waters	How Geek Became Chic With budgets and staff stretched thin, schools are turning tech-savvy students into technology leaders and a popular, important source of IT support.
PHONE+ May 1, 2009	Case Study: High School Goes Wireless With U4EA Hollis Brookline High wanted to offer students the use of computers in class, but realizing that it would be impractical to wire 30 connections for every classroom, the high school went wireless.
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding	The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening?
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.
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T.H.E. Journal November 2006 Neal Starkman	Special Section: Resource Management :: Value Judgments Are your technology expenditures proving to be money well spent? A new online total cost of ownership (TCO) tool will let you know.
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T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Howard Tomlinson	Educational PDA Games Engage Students, Teach Essential Language Skills One kind of handheld gadget is increasingly becoming accepted, encouraged and often provided by the school: PDAs. This is because handheld computers are a much less expensive alternative to laptop or desktop PCs for each student.
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T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon	Resistance is Futile Even as technology use grows embedded in education, some teachers still prefer the old ways.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 John S. Lunt	Technology Integration: MLTI Transforms Teaching and Learning at Freeport Middle School Last summer, a truck arrived at Freeport Middle School in Freeport, Maine, and unloaded more than 130 laptops - one for every seventh-grade teacher and student.
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T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Melissa LeBoeuf Tothero	University of Texas at Austin Explores LIFE The innovative laptop initiative engages the College of Education's pre-service teachers in a technology-rich learning environment that helps them prepare their students for a future in our high-tech world.
T.H.E. Journal November 16, 2009 David Nagel	Is American Education Neglecting Gifted Children? America's 3 million gifted and talented students are getting the shaft in the vast majority of K-12 schools, according to a new report from the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted.
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel	Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree.
T.H.E. Journal March 2004 Darrell Walery	Wireless Technology in K-12 Education WLANS gain popularity in schools grades K-12 because of their faster speeds and lower costs. An examination of why schools are adopting this technology.
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Mark Erb	The Power of Digital Integration A small-town district prepares its high school students for the future by implementing a 1-to-1 laptop program with digital communications tools.