eSN Today: House draft would overhaul ed-tech funding

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Top News ... House draft would overhaul ed-tech funding Educational technology advocacy groups are applauding the release of another House proposal to renew the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) that would direct funds toward training teachers in the use of technology and would help schools with low-income students buy computers and software, among other measures. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., and... | Full Story Around the Web ... Hands-on, high-tech learning gets high grades Official science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) schools are being created in part to meet what many politicians and educators view as a crisis in engineering and technol... | Full Story iPhone price drop attracts college students Market research firm SurveyU announced Thursday that Apple's decision to drop the price of its 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399 has dramatically increased demand for the device from... | Full Story New database for Portsmouth schools introduced Portsmouth, N.H., school officials say their district is the first in the state to use a web-based database to keep better track of students. Superintendent Bob Lister said the... | Full Story More from eSchool News Online ... Cisco, mtvU reward young tech innovators Among the new digital tools and applications that students will be using on college campuses this fall are a mysterious, mobile-phone-based game of espionage; an online communal... | Full Story Lawmakers step up NCLB renewal process College and workforce preparedness, 21st-century skills, and the use of data to inform instruction are among the new points of emphasis in a draft version of a bill to reautho... | Full Story Study questions cost-effectiveness of school defibrillators A nationwide push to put portable defibrillators in every school, a response to several high-profile student deaths, might not be worth the cost, a new study conclu... | Full Story Faster Wi-Fi in the works to transfer data With a wave of his hand over a homemade receiver, Georgia Tech professor Joy Laskar shows how easily--and quickly--large data files could someday be transferred from a por... | Full Story Announcements from ed-tech providers ... Of 50 million public school students, 10 million ultimately won't graduate | Read the full announcement AAMC, Accenture, Hyland Software, Mapping Your Future, Pennsylvania College of Technology, and University of Idaho join PESC membership | Read the full announcement Tool Factory publishes the Simple Guide to Podcasting book and CD bundle | Read the full announcement SANYO introduces ultra affordable 1080p LCD front projector during CEDIA '07 | Read the full announcement Tutoring--a key to helping disadvantaged students reach the top | Read the full announcement Dell, SURA partner on grid computing initiative | Read the full announcement Unicon announces upgraded Sakai test drive | Read the full announcement Raceland-Worthington Schools nearly triple percent of students reading at or above national average with Wright Group/McGraw-Hill's Breakthrough to Literacy | Read the full announcement	September Online Specials You Don't Want to Miss... 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