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Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman	Seeing No Child Left Behind The highly controversial No Child Left Behind Act is at the center of the election-year debate on education reform.
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Mark Nixon	How the Web Keeps Parents 'In the Know' As teachers and parents work together to assist students in their studies, the Web has emerged as a highly effective and informative communication tool to meet the needs of today's busy teachers and parents...
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Grover & Bernstein	Arnold Gets Strict With The Teachers Schwarzenegger's plan to link educators' pay to test scores has triggered an all-out war.
Teacher Magazine May 2000 Ronald A. Wolk	Real-World Lessons So what is this exciting addition to the high school curriculum---a curriculum that a majority of American students find boring? It's not a new discovery but an old, tried-and-true idea: learning by doing, integrating ideas with action, linking the classroom to the real world.
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T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Michelle Gamble-Risley	Surviving Accountability: As Easy as AYP Data-driven strategies and personalized instruction are paving the way to higher test scores, one student at a time.
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T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Chris Rother	Technology's Value in Education A teacher survey reveals the importance of student access to computers and the need for more tech training.
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 Pat Herr	The Changing Role of the Teacher: How Management Systems Help Facilitate Teaching...
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Fast Company October 19, 2011 Lillian Cunningham	International Comparison Of Teacher Quality Bad Teacher shows the worst of the classroom - and the cinema.
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T.H.E. Journal January 2002 Steve Gardner	Forecasting and Managing Student Achievement on High-Stakes Tests To help educators continually forecast and manage student achievement on high-stakes tests, NCS Learn has introduced its High Stakes Management solution; its VP of marketing presents this overview...
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T.H.E. Journal August 2005 Carole Eaton	Sparking a Revolution in Teaching and Learning How one of Ohio's lowest-performing elementary schools used technology to raise its third-grade reading test scores by a whopping 124 percent.
T.H.E. Journal June 2001 Keith Oelrich	Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development...
ifeminists October 29, 2002 Glenn Sacks	The Teachers' 'Code of Silence' Police officers are well-known for their "code of silence" -- their hesitation to divulge information about the misdeeds of other officers. Educators have a similar code, and our silence serves to keep failing teachers in the classroom, to the detriment of thousands of students.
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Rick Gaisford	Utah: In Mint Condition Using intensive professional development and technology-powered strategies, Utah's eMINTS program is polishing up the performance of students in high-poverty schools across the state.
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T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Mary Burns	From Black and White to Color: Technology, Professional Development and Changing Practice The aim of this project was to help teachers create learner-centered, technology-rich learning environments. For the most part, instruction in these schools was traditional and technology use was virtually nonexistent.
T.H.E. Journal October 2004	Study Reveals NCLB's Impact on the Classroom The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University recently released the findings of its study on urban teachers' options of the No Child Left Behind Act.
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Cathryn Harvey	Special Education Solutions in the Age of NCLB While an individualized approach to connecting assessment with instruction is helping mainstream students succeed, there have not been solutions that special education teachers can adopt in helping with the issues surrounding standardized testing.
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 Andrew Hoffman, Ph.D.	Technology Built for Teachers We all love technology, but adapting one's teaching style to the new resources often takes more time and energy than it's worth and doesn't truly help the learning process. When technology is built for teachers' direct benefit, it will have startling results on the educational process...
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Lisa A. Petrides	ISKME Special Series Part 3: Using Data to Improve Instruction Are you using the right tests? The correct assessment methods? The best technology? These are only a few of the issues that must be addressed in the effort to use data to change teacher practice.
Salon.com May 26, 2000 Catherine Davis	Money talks In wealthy school districts, it drowns out the sound of the teachers.
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Sylvia Charp	Assessment and Accountability Assessment and accountability are not new to educators, but they have been brought to the forefront as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires states to conduct annual mathematics and reading tests in grades 3-8.
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Douglas W. Green & Thomas O'Brien	The Internet's Impact on Teacher Practice and Classroom Culture Does Internet use result in an increase in constructivist teacher practices? What other features of classroom life are impacted when the Internet is used as a source of information for student research projects?
T.H.E. Journal October 2000	Connecting Global Classrooms Scholastic, Inc., a creator and distributor of textbooks, magazines, technology, teacher materials and home products, will share a content licensing agreement with ePALS Classroom Exchange, an online classroom community and provider of classroom technology...
T.H.E. Journal January 2005 Barbara Frey	A Virtual School Principal's To-Do List The following to-do list shows the differences and likenesses in this new realm of virtual education.
T.H.E. Journal September 2000	Intel Intel's Teach to the Future program trains teachers on how, when and where to implement technology into the classroom. The multi-million dollar program currently instructs teachers from California, Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Washington and Arizona.
T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Faye P. Taylor	Education Technology Helps Unite School Communities, Improve Academic Achievement The landmark No Child Left Behind Act has spurred the adoption of innovative education technology and Internet-based programs into classrooms nationwide.
T.H.E. Journal March 2000	Worldwide Technology Education Program to Train 400,000 Teachers Intel's Teach to the Future is a worldwide initiative to address the barriers teachers still face in effectively applying computer technology to improve student learning....
T.H.E. Journal July 2005 Nicole Honore	Going the Distance to Hold Teachers Accountable Louisiana receives national recognition for its flexible online professional development program that helps improve the quality of classroom teachers statewide.
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 April 2005 Tom Steinke	TinkerPlots Turns Students Into Data Analysts Students are learning to analyze data by using TinkerPlots, software that allows students to reason beyond simple computation.
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Peter E. Williams	Will a Digital Textbook Replace Me, the Teacher? A number of excellent digital textbooks are beginning to surface, delivering information in an interesting and interactive manner to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. But, where does that leave educators?
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Larry Hines	Interactive Learning Environment Keeps Modesto Students Engaged The Classroom Performance System provides four district junior high math and science classes with a wireless, collaborative, instant-response learning solution.
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T.H.E. Journal January 2006 Elaine A. Studnicki	The Unkindest Cut of All Technology budgets are often the first to be reduced. The following eight questions will help you determine where to start trimming.
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T.H.E. Journal September 2005	Electronic Classroom Desks The Electronic Classroom desks are constructed so that computer equipment can be placed below the work surface, leaving desktops uncluttered, maintaining valuable student workspace, and, most importantly, enabling direct eye contact between teachers and students.
T.H.E. Journal December 2002 June E. Streckfus	Maryland Strives to Improve Student Learning While Maryland has made a tremendous investment in infrastructure, its overarching goal continues to be improving student learning in core educational areas, as well as in the technological knowledge and skills that are critical to a student's ability to function in today's society.
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