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Philip J. Brody, Ph.D., has written an article concerning how inadequate support infrastructure is adversely impacting student performance In March 2009, eSchool News published the results of a second annual survey and report, conducted together with CoSN and SchoolDude.com that focused on the unique challenges facing IT professionals in the K-12 environment. An area that particularly caught my attention was the availability, or should I say lack of availability, of technology staff and other support resources in our nation's K-12 schools....

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Does your superintendent "get it" when it comes to technology? Does he or she demonstrate exemplary vision for the use of technology to improve all facets of education—and show outstanding leadership in working to make that vision a reality? Then nominate them for an eSchool News Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award. Nominations will be accepted until Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Winners will be honored in a ceremony held in conjunction with the American Association for School Administrators’ (AASA) annual conference in Phoenix, Feb....

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Bob Evans at InformationWeek believes that thanks to CRM vendor Salesforce.com, SaaS is now mainstream and it's not going away. "What Salesforce did was reassert convincingly and I think permanently that the SaaS model has hit the mainstream unconditionally and is being accepted as a truly legitimate enterprisewide platform. I think Salesforce has lifted up the entire SaaS industry on its shoulders and carried it out up and away from the concerns about the weak economy, the doubts about the technology, the fears of security, the neuroses...

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