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An Apple for Your Teacher
Published: Wall Street Journal
Date: July 22, 2009
This article discusses how federal education funding is changing. Greene County Public School System is spotlighted as an innovative school that has taken funding and dramatically altered the classroom through their laptop initiative.
Mooresville Schools' Laptop Initiative Draws Interest From Near and Far
Published: Mooresville Tribune
Date: February 4, 2009
This article discusses how school systems across the country are visiting Moorseville Graded School District to learn more about the implementation of their laptop initiative. Visitors were interviewed during observations to learn why they chose MSGD as a model, and all noted the recognition of the system that laptops was only one component of technology integration and that MSGD had found an organized method of blending it all together.
UNC-TV Online North Carolina Rising: Interview with Dr. Glenn Kleiman, Director of the Friday Institute
In this interview, Dr. Kleiman discusses the 1:1 Laptop Initiative in North Carolina, lessons learned from prior initiatives, and plans for the Initiative in the future.
UNC-TV Online North Carolina Rising: Interview with Dr. Larry Price, Superintendent of Wilson County Schools
In this interview, Dr. Price answers questions about the 1:1 Laptop Initiative in Wilson County, the opportunities being provided, and the lessons learned from the Initiative.
UNC-TV Online North Carolina Rising: Laptop Initiative in Wilson County
This article and video focuses on the laptop initiative that is being implemented in Wilson County. Both discuss not only how the laptops are being implemented in Wilson County, but also the larger focus on the need for such technology in the classroom to prepare students for the changing career fields.
SAS’ Goodnight calls for $20-$36 billion in education tech spending
Published by: Businessweek
Date: December 22, 2008
In this response article, Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, and Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium on School Networking, explain why part of the economic stimulus plan needs to set aside for implementing the use of technology in the classroom. Specifically, these components should include improving school connectivity and technology as well as connection to school technology for students of low-income families. Doing so would not only show a committment to improving education to deal with a changing, global economy, but it would also provide a stimulus to the technology and telecommunications sectors as jobs would need to be created to implement the creation and maintenance of these infrastructures.
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