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Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News According to the search giant, the millions of students using the Education Edition of its apps suite are spread across thousands of schools in 145 countries. As students get ready to head back to university this autumn,... [09 Sep 2009]
Colorado High School Moves Students Ahead of the Pack
White Paper According to the school's administrators, Smoky Hill High School in Aurora, Colorado, is one of only a handful of high schools in the nation to offer instruction in three-dimensional digital animation. [02 Sep 2009]
IBM Case Study: Miami-Dade County Public Schools
White Paper Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is the fourth-largest school district in the U.S. With an annual budget of $6.1 billion, the school system has approximately 350,000 students, 50,000 employees, 367... [01 Sep 2009]
McAfee Solves Rampant Spyware Problem for Temecula Schools
White Paper The Temecula Valley Unified School District consists of 31 elementary, middle and high schools in and around the city of Temecula, southeast of Los Angeles. The district faced chronic spyware infections that degraded... [01 Sep 2009]
Student Information System Helps Schools Streamline Day-to-Day Operations
White Paper ServoEscolar and SesWEB solutions from Éxito Software build on the Microsoft Learning Gateway framework to streamline schools' day-to-day operations. More than 900 educational institutions in Mexico and Central America... [01 Sep 2009]
McAfee EPO 4.0 Minimizes Time Spent on Threat Protection at University of Utah Health Sciences Center
White Paper University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC) is a division of University Health Care - a large healthcare network and medical training institution that consists of a number of hospitals, clinics, specialty healthcare centers,... [01 Sep 2009]
The Path Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence at the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida
White Paper The school district's 2008/2009 fiscal year budget of $3.5 billion supports 184 schools and 22,144 teachers who serve 169,454 students. The School District of Palm Beach County, Florida (PBCSD) is the 5th largest school... [01 Sep 2009]
Victoria University of Wellington Empowers Budget Holders With IBM Cognos
White Paper It needed to an easier way to manage budget preparation throughout multiple faculties, schools, institutes and centres of research in an intranet environment. For more than a century, the Victoria University of... [01 Sep 2009]
The Future of School
White Paper A growing emphasis on public accountability for results and performance - across education systems and within individual schools - is an integral part of extensive, and sometimes contentious, change. In this paper, the... [30 Aug 2009]
Data Mining and Predictive Modeling in Institutional Advancement: How Ten Schools Found Success
White Paper This technical report, produced in partnership by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and SPSS Inc.explores the promise of data mining alumni records at educational institutions. [29 Aug 2009]
Does Data Mining Really Work for Higher Education Fundraising?: A Study of the Results of Predictive Models Built for 5 Higher Education Institutions
White Paper Even though most of them would struggle if asked to give an explanation of these terms, it was becoming clear that a new era of data-driven decision-making was dawning for people who raise money for secondary schools,... [29 Aug 2009]
K-12 Schools Cut Costs, Power, Downtime With HP Thin Clients
White Paper More and more each day, public schools are making the switch to HP thin clients to provide desktop computing capabilities. The Apache Junction Unified School District in Apache Junction, Arizona, was facing a common... [28 Aug 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment It was refreshing and enlightening to go into some London schools and youth groups and actually talk to children. After working in schools, Richard Leyland tells a different story. After working in... [24 Aug 2009]
Who will hold the offshoring crown in 2020?
News But today the new Indian education minister has proposed a public-private partnership in India's education system, where 2,500 model schools would be created, which is something we have been shouting from the rooftops... [14 Aug 2009]
To Educate Young Students, It Does Take a Village
White Paper The largest school district in Florida and the fourth largest district in the United States, the Miami-Dade County Public School District serves almost 340,000 students in 367 schools. Miami-Dade Public... [27 Jul 2009]
