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The Reinventing Education project was established under a $2 million dollar grant from IBM to the West Virginia Department of Education. Its purpose is to define and validate criteria for creating instructional plans that use the power of the...

Computer Managed Reading Programs have become more common in the primary grades nationally. Reading instructors can use these programs to track curricular, and extracurricular reading activity, track individual student progress, and compile group...

Built upon the IBM Reinventing Education initiative and the current PT3-WVEDUCATION grant collaborative, the West Virginia Department (WVDE) of Education is now engaged in a collaborative partnership with Marshall University to establish P-12...

The Reinventing Education project was established under a $2 million dollar grant from IBM to the West Virginia Department of Education. Its purpose is to define and validate criteria for creating instructional plans that use the power of the...

FOR THE FORESEEABLE future, computing will play an increasingly important role in human learning. However, no one yet knows exactly how great that role will eventually be, or precisely what form it will finally take.

Twenty-three years ago, when I put together the 1980 book, The Computer in the School, personal computers were just making their debut. Figure 1 shows a photo from the the book of a kindergartner in a vendor booth at the 1979 National Computer...

Education budget limitations have led to a narrowed focus on math and the hard sciences in public schools at the expense of physical education programmes, reducing the amount of exercise time set aside for youth. This reduction is reflected in a...