Philadelphia opens high-tech school of the future
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Philadelphia on Thursday opened a   public high school where students work on wireless laptops,   teachers eschew traditional subjects for real-world topics and   parents can track their child's work on the Internet.
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Five more flagship city academies are opening - and most secondary pupils will be returning to specialist schools.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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How one state is re-engineering its schools for the new century
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A FEW years ago, a young man in his freshman year of college had a vision for a better way to provide high school students with the information they need to find colleges that are a good fit.
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Harvard University is planning a major expansion of its engineering program, including a 67 percent increase in the size of the faculty and the possible establishment of a separate school.
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The floating campus of Semester at Sea takes a new tack with cell phones and wireless Net access.
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Philadelphia on Thursday opened a  public high school where students work on wireless laptops,  teachers eschew traditional subjects for real-world topics and  parents can track their child's work on the Internet.
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A $109 million renewal and expansion of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., opens this week with some unusual intelligent communications systems for visitors and staff.
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The last summer before college is full of possibilities. George Hotz, a slight, curly-haired teenager in Glen Rock, N.J., spent it taking on two of the largest corporations in the US technology industry, and winning.
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Schools of the future, Gates says, will need to extend beyond chalkboards to digital devices.
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The DreamSpark program will provide programming tools to high school and college students worldwide.
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A New England&#150;style boarding school opens in Jordan
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Attendees at this year&#146;s PowerSchool University ramped up their student information system skills with the new PowerSchool 4.0 and augmented their development activities through peer networking. [Aug 3]
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A village school in Devon is claiming to have one of the most technologically advanced classrooms in the country.
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A WiMax tower on Parintins island connects two schools, a hospital, a community center and a university to a broadband network.
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Two years ago, every student at T.C. Williams High received a wireless laptop computer. Alexandria school officials described the venture as a leap into the future of education and a way to close the digital divide.