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• March 29, 2010
• 19:56

  Local Buy-In Helps Two States Win Race to Top

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  District and teachers’ union support, and strong data systems, were keys to victory for Delaware and Tennessee in the contest’s first round.

• 14:53

  Education Department Names Race to the Top Winners

   » ‎ THE Journal
  The United States Department of Education Monday announced the winners in the first phase of the Race to the Top competition. Delaware and Tennessee have been awarded a combined total of about $600 million to implement school reform plans over the next four years. The second round of the program is now underway, with $3.4 billion available to states.
• 11:31

  State Leaders Weigh In on Open Source Assessment

   » ‎ THE Journal
  Open source assessments have great potential for cost savings, collaboration, and standards adoption, but there are also some perception barriers that stand in the way of wider adoption in the immediate future, according to a new report exploring the attitudes of state assessment and technology leaders.
• 11:27

  International Nonprofit Helps Haitian Students Begin To Rebuild

   » ‎ THE Journal
  On the heels of its introduction into Afghanistan, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit aimed at bringing computers and Internet access to students in need throughout the world, has begun to make inroads into another country in the process of rebuilding: Haiti.

• 10:34

  Stimulus Aid Yanks States' Spending Leash

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  Badly needed federal cash requires states to maintain education funding at levels that may be tough to meet.

• 0:00

  ISTE's Recommendations for ESEA Reauthorization

   » ‎ ISTE Recent News Feed
  In a March 26 letter to the US House of Representatives' Committee on Education and Labor, ISTE CEO Don Knezek advised Chairman George Miller (D-CA) and Ranking Member John Kline (R-MN) to make sure that the next version of ESEA befits "the digital age of global competition and interdependence." Among other recommendations, ISTE counseled committee leaders to "leverage education technology as a gateway to college and career readiness" and "invest in pre-service education technology."