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Gallup Poll Shows School Funding is a Major Public Concern

Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup released the results of their annual poll on education issues this week, and there is a steep increase in the number of participants that list a lack of financial support as the biggest problem facing community schools.

Another interesting finding of the poll is that just 34 percent respondents give President Obama an [...]

India Looks Forward to Implementation of the Free & Compulsory Right to Education Act

This week the educators of India are all watching one big bang event: the 2010 National Budget.
For educators and education in India, this is one of the most critical budgets ever.
The passage of the Free & Compulsory Right to Education Act of 2009 is perhaps two months from being notified. With implementation imminent, educators are [...]

Peer Reviewers Needed for Dept. of Ed. i3 Competition

Ever wonder who decides how government education funding is allocated? Now is your chance to play a role in this crucial process.
The US Department of Education’s $650m Investing in Innovation (i3) competition, which is open to all US school districts, needs peer reviewers to help judge the grant applications.
According to a recent Ed Week blog [...]

ISTE’s Top Ten in ’10: Teacher Prep. & Access to Technology Named Top Priorities

Teachers are constantly asked to do more with less. The battle to adequately fund education rages on even as educators are being required to impart knowledge on an ever-increasing range of topics.
A pilot would not be asked to take to the air without modern equipment and extensive training in using the latest technologies. Yet many [...]

Do ISTE’s “Top Ten in ‘10” Ed Tech Priorities Reflect Your Issues?

Welcome to 2010 and to this ISTE Connects conversation!  From my home base in Washington DC, it looks to be a New Year full of possibility and challenge.  We face daunting budget deficits at all levels of government and find ourselves struggling to maintain robust funding for classroom technology.
As part of ISTE’s advocacy efforts this [...]

Tell us How Your School will Spend ARRA Dollars

We are beginning to hear from schools and districts around the country as to how ARRA dollars will be used toward school and classroom technology advances and professional development. For example, a district in West Virginia “hopes to use additional Title I funding to upgrade classroom equipment, hire professional personnel, support extended school year initiatives and provide [...]

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 [...]

If Obama doesn’t really care about 21st century skills, perhaps EETT proposed cuts don’t matter?

How jaded are you when it comes to school reform / transformation efforts, particularly when it comes to educational technology? Thursday President Obama proposed a cut in 2009-2010 EETT funding (the TitleIID, Enhancing Education through Technology program) from $269 million to $100 million. Hillary Goldman is surprised, quoting the joint ISTE / COSN / [...]

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 [...]

ISTE Funding Webinar available free

ISTE has made the webinar archive available from its April 2, 2009 members-only event, “So the Stimulus Passed, Now What?” available to anyone, for free. Click here to launch Adobe Acrobat Pro Meeting and view the archived event.
Webinar panelists provided detailed information about education program funds in the stimulus package, including timing and guidelines as [...]