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T.H.E. Journal June 2006	Industry News ISTE Announces Election Results... Illinois School District Wins Charp Award... Educators Meet to Talk Design... etc.
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T.H.E. Journal February 2005 Geoffry Fletcher	No More Excuses - Children's Lives Are at Stake Announces acceptance of applications for the second annual Sylvia Charp Award, given to the school district that exhibits effectiveness and innovation in the application of technology districtwide.
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T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Geoffrey Fletcher	Slowing Down for Progress The fastest way to incorporate technology into your district is to pause for a thoughtful consideration of what you want to achieve.
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel	Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations.
National Defense March 2011 Cynthia D. Miller	National Science Foundation Supports STEM Education Of equal importance to the foundation is the support of science and engineering education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school and beyond, with a variety of fellowships and programs specifically for teachers and students.
T.H.E. Journal January 2005	Finalsite is Giving 20 Award Certificates The Web Communications Award Program will help administrators provide a districtwide Web site content management solution that simplifies the way districts create and maintain their sites.
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 March 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	A Laptop for Every...Teacher! Is the laptop program good technology policy? It depends.
T.H.E. Journal December 2004 Keith Murphy	Wisconsin Districts Collaborate on Web Development Seven school districts in Southeast Wisconsin have worked together on a Web development project that helped combine resources and meet state requirements by putting information at the disposal of parents and students.
T.H.E. Journal June 2005	T.H.E., ISTE Announce 2005 Charp Award Kiel Area School District of Kiel, WI, is the recipient of the 2005 Sylvia Charp Award for District Innovation in Technology.
T.H.E. Journal March 2009	Drill Down Students, teachers, parents, and administrators were asked to outfit their ultimate school with one guiding criterion: maximizing achievement.
T.H.E. Journal January 28, 2010 Scott Aronowitz	Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state.
T.H.E. Journal April 2006	Awards and Contests Pearson School Systems has announced the 2006 Customer Excellence Awards Contest. School districts using Pearson Education technologies are invited to enter and share the ways technology helps improve teaching and learning.
Registered Rep. June 18, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more.
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T.H.E. Journal May 2002 Sylvia Charp	Changes to Traditional Teaching Teaching and learning have changed as the use of technology becomes more prevalent...
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T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Charlene O'Hanlon	Follow the Money Federal largesse only goes so far. So to support their technology programs, districts are pursuing funding sources in the state, local, corporate, and taxpayer ranks.
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T.H.E. Journal June 2007 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	A Winner on All Fronts This year's Sylvia Charp Award for District Innovation in Technology goes to a district whose innovative technological efforts touch every aspect of its operation.
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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.
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T.H.E. Journal January 13, 2010 David Nagel	What Are the Top-10 Ed Tech Priorities for 2010? Which issues in education technology should drive policymaking in 2010?
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 September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
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 2001 Ruth Watson	The Trumbull County Community Network Project In the early 1990s, the school districts of Trumbull County, OH were similar to most schools in the amount of technology available to teachers, administrators and students. The project that changed that situation made an organized effort to infuse technology into K-12 schools...
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T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Sue Collins	Filling Educational Gaps With Online Learning: An Educationally, Economically Sound Solution Through innovative budgeting and planning strategies, superintendents and principals everywhere are discovering creative tools for meeting the needs of all students. Online learning is one such tool, offering a cost-effective way to expand a school's educational offerings.
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