eSN Today: MPC acquires Gateway's school business

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Top News ... MPC acquires Gateway's school business Just days after Taiwanese computer maker Acer Inc. announced plans to acquire Gateway Inc. for $710 million, Gateway's school customers learned they will have a new supplier for sales, service, and support: Gateway has agreed to sell its professional business unit to Nampa, Idaho-based MPC Corp. in a separate, $90 million deal. Under the deal, MPC Computers--a wholly owned... | Full Story Around the Web ... Back to school 2.0 For students in Arkansas' rural Sheridan School District, the bus ride to school can last as long as an hour and a half. But lately the 15-hour weekly commute is... | Full Story Teacher-astronaut talks about space life Three weeks after returning to Earth, teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan cheerfully carried out her first space education assignment Monday, sharing the magic of flying in... | Full Story Tool in the works to put more data in less space The ability to cram more data into less space on a memory chip or a hard drive has been the crucial force propelling consumer electronics companies to make ever smaller... | Full Story More from eSchool News Online ... 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... | Full Story 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... | 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... | 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... | Full Story Announcements from ed-tech providers ... Free access to online educational tools and literacy curricula from ePals | Read the full announcement CoSN releases best practices for data-driven decision making in schools based on two new case studies | Read the full announcement Wireless Generation to serve as subcontractor on Institute of Education Sciences-funded study of K-3 formative mathematics assessment | Read the full announcement The Bill of Rights Institute offers new teacher and student resources for Constitution Day, September 17, 2007 | Read the full announcement TimeWarp Technologies releases Classroom Maestro Version 2.0 | Read the full announcement School Improvement Network's (SINET) learning framework eliminates achievement gap in a Louisiana school district | Read the full announcement Dell, SURA, partner on grid computing initiative | Read the full announcement Audio Visual Innovations integrates more than 300 SMART whiteboards into Alachua County public schools | Read the full announcement Milwaukee Public Schools approve $2.7 million extension with Vantage Learning | Read the full announcement Hitachi Software extends StarBoard Summer School Contest | Read the full announcement	September Online Specials You Don't Want to Miss... 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