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As schools prepare for the debut this fall of science testing under No Child Left Behind, educators and science advocates are calling for renewed awareness of what many say is a national crisis in science education.

Before school officials prohibit teachers and students from accessing certain web sites, they should think about the positive impact those sites might have on education:

Ending a tense standoff with the White House, the Democratic-led Congress has agreed to a $555-billion year-end budget bill that meets President Bush's baseline spending cap on domestic programs and allows lawmakers to return home for the holidays. The budget contains $59.4 billion in funding for the U.S. Department of Education (ED), though an across-the-board recision of 1.75 percent will leave actual ED spending at $58.4 billion. The recision also means $5 million less in federal ed-tech funding this year.

Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey on technology's role in schools is now open
Students, parents, teachers, and now—for the first time—K-12 administrators are invited to take part in Speak Up 2007, an annual survey that seeks to determine what is needed to give students a top-notch, 21st-century education.

Open Content Alliance triggers philosophical debate over access to digital material

Results of first comprehensive study of Maine's pioneering ed-tech initiative show promise

Schools, libraries, and other organizations that aim to improve students' reading skills have a new online tool to help them evaluate how well their literacy programs work: the Verizon Literacy Program Self-Assessment Tool (VLP-SAT).

The race to supply low-cost laptop computers to students in developing nations has heated up: Within hours of the news that Uruguay had become the first nation to buy XO laptops from former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Acrobats, astronauts inspire attendees of NSBA's annual technology conference to innovate and take risks

A mass-notification system has been instrumental in keeping parents and students in an affected southern California school district in northern San Diego County informed about fire-related school decisions since the furious blazes began five days ago.

Despite recent violence, survey finds many colleges have yet to update or complete strategic plans for disaster recovery, crisis management

New special interest group aims to help schools and libraries preserve digital materials

Wisconsin's Lawrence University captures top spot in annual rankings--but overall scores decline from last year

New push for technological curbs on unauthorized copying forces colleges to fight once again after prevailing in Senate

Already revolutionizing early-literacy assessment via handheld technology, Wireless Generation seeks to boost elementary math