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T.H.E. Journal
May 2006
Nodine & Petrides |
ISKME Special Series Part 4: Using Data to Improve Instruction Connecting the dots: how to use data to get from districtwide goal-setting to school-level performance.   |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2007
Linda L. Briggs |
Business Intelligence :: Magnum B.I. Using powerful business intelligence tools, two districts are drilling down to the finer points of student data, where the most revealing insights lie. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 1, 2010
John K. Waters |
What's In It For Us By following a foursome of best practices from the business world, K-12 districts can guide their business intelligence (BI) initiatives toward an effective implementation. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2005
Patricia Renzulli |
Testing the Limits of One-Stop Data Access The School District of Philadelphia relies on its comprehensive technology solution to make informed teaching decisions. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2009 |
T.H.E. News Update :: April 1, 2009 Schools Pilot USC-Built Math Game Platform... Oklahoma District Adopts Online Student Information System... Penn State Expands Professional Development Program for School Nurses... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
P&C Carrier Gets Down to Business Providence Washington Insurance improves the usability of its business intelligence reports with tools from Cognos. |
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
April 2008
Dian Schaffhauser |
On the Road to DDDM Implementing a data-driven decision-making initiative is a painstaking, six-stage process. Two districts are halfway home. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 22, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Georgia District Drives Savings Through Energy Initiative Marietta City Schools launched a competition among the schools in the district that led to energy and cost savings in every school in the district. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2005
Williams & Krueger |
Is Your Network Safe? Why educators should care about cybersecurity - and what they should do about it. |
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 2009
Jeff Weinstock |
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Mission Accomplished Two districts, one goal: to use data to drive decision-making. Both have achieved breakthroughs, discovering new ways to draw insights from student performance, and then step in to better it. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000 |
Solution Helps Administrators Analyze Student Performance IBM's Insight at School is a new business intelligence solution for the K-12 market. It provides schools with technology, consulting and services to improve the learning process by helping students make more informed decisions. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2004
William H. Flaherty |
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Data Warehouse Helps Hanover County Public Schools Raise Student Achiev When it comes to data, many educators are hunters. After they have gathered all the information they need, the real challenges begin. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2004
Abrutyn & Crego |
Leadership & Advocacy: Penn-Delco School District Reaches Its Goals by Holding Fast to Technology Vi In a time when No Child Left Behind demands an increase in student achievement, but funds for technology are scarce, leadership is crucial to using technology wisely. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2008
Matt Bolch |
Remote Control School districts are catching on to software as a service, a business model that allows administrators to manage essential organizational functions and plug in to student data from anywhere with an internet connection. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2003
Jeff Jennings |
IT in a Time of Budget Cuts How school funding will affect the quality of education |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2006 |
ISKME Special Series Part I >> Data Driven Savvy school administrators are using data to improve instruction district-wide. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009
Paula Jacobs |
Power Grab Facilities departments combine sophisticated technologies with ordinary common-sense steps to shave dollars and kilowatts off energy consumption. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2004
Jennifer W. Lovitt |
Successful Strategies for Saving & Securing Technology Funding While locating funding for technology can be a challenge, financial support can often be found if a school district searches in both conventional and unconventional places. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2009
Dian Schaffhauser |
Out of Site, Out of Mind Software as a service puts burdensome administrative tasks into the hands of a web-based host. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 1, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
It Goes Both Ways The days of using the internet as merely a one-way supplier of news are over. With social media tools encouraging a back- and-forth exchange of information, parents, alumni, and other stakeholders can participate directly in the life of their school. |
Insurance & Technology
February 3, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Great American Unifies Business Intelligence on IBM Cognos Platform In consolidating systems for enterprise business intelligence, Great American discovers that demonstrating business value is critical to accelerating adoption of a single BI tool. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Robert J. McGarvey |
You Want Me to What ? It's a riddle faced by virtually every IT director: how to fulfill users' desire for more muscular computing resources while still obliging administrators' commands to keep education spending down. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
Scare Tactics In April, as public fears about a mysterious new strain of flu grew, the Los Angeles Unified School District moved to forestall a panic. Many districts are using technology solutions to respond to emergencies such as this. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Cognos' Results Reflect BI Software Strength In another sign that enterprises are buying business intelligence software at a healthy clip, Cognos reported a record $210 million in revenue for the third quarter, 22 percent greater than the year-over period sum of $172 million. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2008
Rama Ramaswami |
A Tight Squeeze As government regulations mandate the long-term retention of districts' rising volume of information, K-12 IT directors are using new storage tools to put their data in its place. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2008
Matt Villano |
Make It Count Budget crunches are elevating the need for K-12 technology leaders to demonstrate a favorable return on investment. Here's how to ensure you're getting what you pay for. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2008
Christine Fox |
Elementary Schools : The Time Is Now Early diagnosis of academic deficits is pivotal to keeping students from falling irretrievably behind. Formative assessment technology gives teachers the tools to respond. |
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
September 2005
Robert Yost |
Flexible Network Infrastructure Helps Meet District's Changing Needs IP telephony system improves student safety and staff productivity of northern Virginia district. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2007
Matt Villano |
Data-Driven Decision Making :: The 'Other' Data Most districts know the benefits of tabulating and tracking student performance. But now many are finding there's even more to gain from number crunching by casting out a wider net. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2003
Kay Woodfield |
Getting On Board With Online Testing Like most technology being adopted in education, computerized testing has the potential to improve individual student learning. That was Idaho's goal when it selected a new Internet-enabled state test in spring 2002. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2004
Bob Owens |
Database System Helps Keep Everyone Informed in Rural Vermont School District An educational management system built on FileMaker Pro database software helps teachers, parents and administrators find new ways to collaborate in order to improve the education of students. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2008
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
President Ed Tech Following a rough ride with the Bush administration, only one candidate offers the policies and vision that can reinvigorate our industry and help our students gain a foothold on the future. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Business Intelligence Not an Oxymoron Cognos' flagship product, ReportNet, is continuing to drive significant growth. Despite a strong quarter, Wall Street's response was ho-hum, as the stock price inched up $0.60 to $34.54. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2006
Mary Ann Wolf |
Using Technology to Improve Achievement: Making Data Relevant New information systems are helping states and districts individualize instruction and boost student learning. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009 |
Flourish by Ablenet Ablenet now offers Flourish software to help teachers and administrators collect and analyze data for tracking and managing the progress of special education students. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004
Linda Clark |
Computerized Adaptive Testing: Effective Measurement for All Students The motivation for adopting computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is the belief that every student, at every level, needs the right education for where they are right now. CAT better provides the tools to offer it. |
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
May 1, 2010 |
Floydada ISD Named Winner of 2010 Sylvia Charp Award The small West Texas district's 1-to-1 computing program is helping to put an increasing number of its students on the path to college. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
Matt Villano |
On Alert Recent events point up the need for school districts to upgrade campus security procedures. But while some have acted by adopting emergency notification systems, many don't seem to have gotten the message. |
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
May 2003
Neah J. Lohr |
Implementing the Complexities of NCLB Wisconsin's approach to overcoming the law's challenges and closing the achievement gap |
T.H.E. Journal
September 21, 2009
David Nagel |
How Do We Measure School Turnaround? A coalition of 17 education groups, called the Learning First Alliance, has released five key recommendations that it said will help turn around our struggling schools. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2008
Matt Villano |
Point Man A district's IT efforts all revolve around the CIO, whose role and responsibilities have been transformed by the digital age. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 11, 2010
Dan Thompson |
Arkansas Cooperative Brings Online Simulations to Middle Schoolers The Northwest Arkansas Educational Cooperative is bringing online simulation tools, called "Gizmos," to middle schoolers as part of an effort to increase student proficiency in the areas of math and science. |
