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User-Created Online Media

Affordable and Productive

If you’re looking for verification of No Child Left Behind’s worth, you might want to skip this section. Many of the books chosen, from Reading The Naked Truth to Not With Our Kids, come out swinging against NCLB.

Two forces—technology advancements and the specific NCLB requirements—had a hand in almost every item chosen in this category, from Apple’s Jaguar to CompassLearning’s standard-based tool Explorer.

The biggest benefits of the Web—limitless space and the ability for users to customize its information—are leading factors in each of the sites chosen this year.

You don’t have to agree with every choice made in this section, but if your district isn’t using some version of all the tools mentioned here—including laptops, high-tech projectors and digital cameras—you are shortchanging your students.