Blake Wilson, the director of the Mississippi Economic Council, is about as effective a salesman for the state as you will find. He’s a true believer in Mississippi’s potential, a fact that’s more noteworthy because he’s from out of state and therefore has been able to look past the stereotypes to see what’s possible.
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12/12/2011
The majority of bargaining units representing teachers across Wisconsin voted to recertify last week, even in light of extensive limits to their bargaining abilities due to legislation approved by Gov. Scott Walker last spring.
12/12/2011
YouTube is launching a brand new tool to help teachers and students get their learn on. “YouTube for Schools” is a portal that helps curate education materials and videos on subjects such as history and math while filtering out potentially offensive or distracting content.
12/12/2011
Educating Utah's young people is the focus of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s budget recommendations for the coming year.
12/12/2011
A Connecticut task force assigned to study ways to close the achievement gap between wealthy and poor students is scheduled to hear from the state's new education commissioner.
12/12/2011
Since well before the 2011 legislative session began, one question has dominated conversations about Texas' budget cuts to public education: How will they affect public schools?
12/12/2011
For a generation of Newark, N.J. students, every education decision, including choices on curriculum, spending and superintendent, has been made by state officials in Trenton.
12/12/2011
GoKnow Mobile Learning, a leading provider of mobile learning tools and services, and the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals announced general availability of GoObserve, a tablet-based classroom observation and walkthrough tool.
12/12/2011
Interactive Health Technologies, LLC, a company specializing in digital fitness systems that empower children and their families to improve their physical fitness, is the first U.S. company to use the Sony NFC Dynamic Tag (FeliCa Plug) embedded product in its Spirit System.
12/12/2011
The Student Progress Monitoring System from Vantage Learning is the only Web-based, Adaptive Learning Platform that fully supports the formative assessment process. It provides automated delivery of targeted and prescriptive resources to each student based on strengths and weaknesses immediately after assessment.
12/12/2011
Discovery Education and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) announced their science-based TurfMutt program has expanded to meet the needs of K-5 educators across the country.
12/12/2011
The Hastings Center and the Ethics Institute at Kent Place School are joining forces on a pilot project in which a group of high school students will engage in a dynamic, in-depth exploration of the use of medicine for human enhancement, a major topic in bioethics.
12/12/2011
SureScore, provider of college readiness solutions, recently announced that CEO Andrew Vreeke has been singled out for his stellar leadership contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere by EdTech Digest.
12/12/2011
Moodlerooms, Inc. recently announced that it has been honored across six different categories in EdTech Digest’s 2011 Awards Program, including Learning Management System, Social Networking and Open Source Solution.
12/12/2011
Users simply sign an electronic release and MotherKnows collects the records from any medical provider and converts them into a custom tailored health record with easy to read graphic displays of immunizations, growth charts, medications and more.
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