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The American Recovery Reinvestment Act Interview with Hilary Goldmann

If you are an educator, a parent of a student, or just an involved citizen, then you need to be thinking about how the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds are going to be spent in your district and school. Realizing that this topic is immensely important, and in many ways as equally confusing, I decided to [...]

Focusing on Classrooms Rather than Schools

Last weekend at the Podstock 2009 conference in Wichita, Kansas, I was very interested to learn more about Kansas’ Technology Rich Classrooms (TRC) project. This is a competitive grant project utilizing EETT (Enhancing Education through Technology) federal dollars, but instead of focusing on entire school campuses the program focuses on individual CLASSROOMS. According to the [...]

How should your state use EdTech Stimulus Funds?

If you live in the United States, how do you think your state department of education should use forthcoming federal stimulus funds earmarked for educational technology? If you live outside the U.S. how do you think leaders in the states should use these funds, to model best-practices for ICT in the classroom? If the upcoming [...]

U.S. Educational Technology Funding Updates

What was included in the stimulus package recently passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Obama for educational technology? What are the expected funding levels for EETT (Title IID) next year?
One of the best places to turn for answers to these questions is the ISTE Community blog of Hilary Goldman. Her February 13th [...]