Ascension Schools Get Technology Boost
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By Advocate staff report  GONZALES - The Ascension Parish School System's Allied Health program is getting a technology boost thanks to a donation from St. Elizabeth Hospital.
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Blackboard is turning in good growth and rising margins with two hot education software products.
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By Shaun Epperson, Tulsa World, Okla.  Jun. 6--Some local teachers were selected for an out-of-this-world learning opportunity this month designed to expand their knowledge and help them enhance their curriculum.
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By George B. Sanchez, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 19--Parents want to monitor their students' progress online, and staff members want an improved computer network, according to the results of an online survey conducted by Tucson's largest school district.
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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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Savvy teachers individualize instruction using Internet and other tech tools.
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The school bell rung for the first time Thursday at the School of the Future, a joint project between the School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft. The two groups say the school is the most advanced high school in the nation.
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As students learn about energy efficiency, their school buildings increasingly practice it
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Aim is to give students easy access to "portable office" software suite designed to operate in Windows environment.
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By Christina Vance, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 7--Unhappy with the speed of dial-up Internet access at home? Try being a Fresno Unified student.   Many classroom Web connections move at a maddeningly slow pace in California's fourth-largest school district.
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By Todd Davis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 24--JUSTIN -- Talk about incentive.   Soon-to-be eighth-graders attending the summer TechnoCamp in the Northwest school district did more than learn how to operate computers this year.
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Sun Devils use gadgets to keep up with studies and friends--and sometimes, to stay awake in class.
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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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The amount of money secondary schools spend on ICT has risen by a third in a year, figures show.
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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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By Greg Esposito, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 24--BLACKSBURG -- When Virginia Tech junior Angella De Soto sits in her Community Renewable Energy Systems class she can't help but notice her surroundings.