Teachers Statewide Get Qwest Technology Grants
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 15--The Qwest Foundation will give grants totaling $100,000 to 28 teachers across Colorado to boost technology in the classroom, Qwest announced Thursday.
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By LISA VERNON-SPARKS  Journal Staff Writer  COVENTRY  - In at least one local school, the days of the traditional chalkboard are numbered.   This month, courtesy of Hewlett-Packard, Washington Oak Elementary School started using tablet PCs in five of its classroom.
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By Emeagwali, N Susan  BUTLER COUNTY AREA VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL EMPOWERS STUDENTS WITH THE SKILLS THEY NEED TO SUCCEED IN POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION AND THE WORKPLACE.
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By Kris Wernowsky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 9--HANOVER TWP. -- Hanover Area School District recently purchased nine Apple laptop computers for its school board members.
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Drexel University, the University of Michigan and Florida State University plan to use more than $600,000 in grants to turn the Internet Public Library into a virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference.
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- Qwest Communications International Inc  said it settled a patent lawsuit with Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing L.P. and would pay an undisclosed sum for a nonexclusive license for interactive voice applications patented by Katz.
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A technology known as an audience response system is spreading to public and private schools across the country.
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By GEORGE HOHMANN  DAILY MAIL BUSINESS EDITOR  The effort to extend broadband access to all of West Virginia has received lots of attention but the state government's drive to harness technology is much bigger than that, West Virginia's chief technology officer said.
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If Doreen Seelig pocketed all the money she has spent on classroom supplies over 35 years as a teacher &#151; the printer cartridges, the paper, the pencils and the paperback books lent to her Venice High School students &#151; she figures she would have a new car by now.
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A study says high levels of computer technology can improve school results, but the picture is mixed.
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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.
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The new program includes grants and classes to help research and academic institutions manage their network systems.
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By Anonymous  CAMDEN Camden County College has received a five-year $477,879 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Scholars Program to benefit minorities and low-income students.
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By Dawn Marks, The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 9--EDMOND -- The Edmond school system's technology outline for the next five years calls for putting more equipment in students' and teachers' hands.
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 17--It started so simply.   Joi Sigers, a Madisonville native, was home schooling her three daughters.   And she worried that they weren't getting the kind of computer training that public schools could offer.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  Schools in low-income areas could be getting some extra money that would help make up for fee waivers granted to students coming from poverty-stricken homes.
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A growing number of Colorado school superintendents are devising strategies to soften the blow of losing students to online schools.