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October 21st, 2009 |  Kurt Schlatzer |  Technology in Education |  Comments Off

Inadequate support infrastructure: Adversely impacting students

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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October 13th, 2009 |  Kurt Schlatzer |  Public Education |  Comments Off

NCES 2007-8 School Year Report Released

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has released the following report today: Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-08 - First Look. This report presents findings on the numbers and types of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States and the territories in the 2007-08 school year, using data from the Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey of the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system. View the full...

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