Los Angeles News Channel 5 visits New Millennium
New Millennium Secondary School, an LAUSD charter that is entering its third year of operation out of a Carson mall, saw its first CAHSEE results. They were decent: 81 percent passing English and 80 percent in math, about on par with the statewide average and greater than…
Inc. Magazine: Psychological Software Solutions tops the Inc. 500 list
As a psychologist and a tenured professor who specialized in researching and devising strategies for teaching troubled children, Stewart Pisecco was doing the work he loved. But then he had an idea for something he thought could reach more children: software that lets teachers and school administrators easily track…
Luvelle Brown, CIO, Albermarle Cty Schools: The TechLEARNING Interview
This video shares an interview with TechLEARNING’s Christine Weiser and Albermarle County Public Schools CIO, Luvelle Brown.
Professional Learning Communities, SIS, data integration, funding challenges and social networking are among the topics that pop up in this 11 minute interview.
Scholastic: “This Is the Direction” with Rob Lee, NBASD
In this month’s “Back to School” issue of Scholastic Administrator, our friends at New Brighton Area School District chime in on their design of an interactive learning environment, with Sensible City clients Qwizdom and PolyVision at the front of class.
Virtual Vehicle Company: Unlocking Green Car Data With Cell Phones
Virtual Vehicle Company, a startup that was one of the 100 finalists showing their technology at the Cleantech Open Conference on Thursday, is the first company that I’ve seen that truly uses the latest cell phone innovations to…
Philadelphia Inquirer: A test-score milestone for Phila. schools
By Kristen A. Graham
Inquirer Staff Writer
Philadelphia public schools reached a new milestone this year – the majority of city students met state standards in reading and math for the first time since 2002, when Pennsylvania began administering tests under the No Child Left Behind law.
It also marks the eighth straight year that city scores are up.
Scholastic: Interview with Schoolnet CEO Jonathan Harber
Scholastic’s Executive Editor, Wayne D’Orio interviews Schoolnet CEO Jonathan Harber about the work at hand during EduStat University in Philadelphia. “The idea of management science in public education is evolving,” says Jonathan Harber, CEO of Schoolnet…
Tech&Learning: The Answer Is…
In an August feature by Ellen Ullman, Tech & Learning Magazine compared leading brands of Student Response Systems by asking educators how they use the product and why. Check out the section on Qwizdom below. Clickers. Audio response systems. Student response systems (SRSs). Whatever you call them, wireless response systems, which allow students to answer [...]
CBS Anchor Colleen Edwards: Open Season (and the Cleantech Open)
The Real Story took a road trip to San Jose to meet some of the inventors and entrepreneurs participating in the Clean Tech Open, a conference dedicated to bringing ideas together with mentoring to create viable businesses in the clean tech arena.
CBS Philly: Virginia Teacher Uses Game to Teach World Peace
KYW’s Mike DeNardo reports if we want peace, maybe we should put the world’s conflicts in the hands of fourth graders. Charlottesville, Virginia teacher John Hunter does just that — having students run imaginary countries on four-level Plexiglas boards — while they solve disputes over…
OC Register: School uses hand-held technology to improve test scores
California’s most broadly distributed newspaper came out to Oak Middle School in Los Alamitos last week and found Teacher Todd Schmidt and his approach to technology irresistible…
Governor Quinn and Mayor Daley Open Fourth Annual Chicago Green Festival
CHICAGO – Illinois Governor Pat Quinn joined Mayor Richard M. Daley for the opening ceremony of the Fourth Annual Chicago Green Festival on Saturday, which included Quinn’s signing an amendment to the Capital Development Board Act. The updated legislation calls for the measurement, reporting and comparison of energy consumption across 10 types of buildings, for [...]
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