eSchool News May 2009

Don’t miss these highlights in your May issue

eSN Publisher’s Report: Accelerate Learning: How the SMART Classroom Suite supports 21st-century instruction.
— Sally Thiel

Product Face-off: How the top library-management programs stack up.
— Meris Stansbury

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What’s News

• New standards to bolster eLearning (pg 1)
• ‘Open access’ sparks debate (pg 1)
• Six technologies soon to transform schools (pg 1)
• Students want mobile devices, online courses (pg 6)
• Microsoft offers free software for high schoolers (pg 8)
• Duncan:Prepare for ‘new era’ in science teaching (pg 10)
• Next campus IT challenge: Streaming video games (pg 12)
• Schools begin receiving federal stimulus money (pg 14)
• Study questions plagiarism-detection software (pg 16)
• Student fitness bill raises data-tracking questions (pg 25)
  • Default Lines (pg 4)
    Fox at the henhouse.
    — Gregg W. Downey
  • Letters to the Editor (pg 4)
    Our readers respond with their opinions.
  • eSN Online Update (pg 6)
    Join our free webinar on school video use.
    — Nancy David
  • Grants & Funding (pg 26)
    Six tips for securing federal stimulus money for your schools. Plus,new grant deadlines.
    — Deborah Ward
  • Education in Focus (pg 27)
    Review seeks clarity in projector debate; new portable, low-cost unit makes video conferencing easy.
  • Security Checkpoint (pg 30)
    Internet might be safer than you think; judge blocks charges in ‘sexting’ case.
  • State Tech Perspectives (pg 36)
    New Jersey seeks to INCLUDE all students through universal design principles.
    — Laurence Cocco
  • Prime-Time Product Preview (pg 37)
    New product information from eSN advertisers.
  • Tech Buyer’s Marketplace (pg 38)
    Buying wisdom from our K-20 Tech Solutions Center.
  • eSchool Partners (pg 38)
    Key organizations that support the eSchool movement
  • eSN.tv Viewer’s Guide (pg 39)
    This month’s highlights from our video news archive

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