Schools and Tech #22: Tech Integration vs. Education Reform
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News of the Week:
1) Later school start times and Zzzs to A's
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that growing bodies benefit from more sleep. When districts push back the start of the school day, good things happen. KB
(Related note - “A decade later, Pa. cyber schools go viral” - but the state's 11 digital academies have mostly failed to meet state testing standards. http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_15924871?source=rss )
6) Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
By SYLVIA HUI, The Associated Press, Sunday, August 29, 2010; 6:43 PM
LONDON -- It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing. Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer to look up words using its online product that it's uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary's next edition will be printed on paper at all. KB