IBM and Wyse Technology are partnering on a new cloud solution to promote universal access for students. Initially, the partnership will deliver an IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud offering to middle school students in Aurora, IL. The partnership is part of a collaborative program with Lrn2innovate, an education infrastructure provider and the Dunham Fund, a [...]
Accenture will lead a plan to develop and implement shared services for the University of North Texas System (UNTS), the company said in a press release today. UNTS will examine campus-level and university system-wide IT and HR/payroll functions to develop a five-year plan. According to the UNT System Vice Chancellor of Finance and the UNTS [...]
Yesterday, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen launched the STEM Innovation Network which will expand the the teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in K-12 public schools across the state. The Network is established as a project within the Tennessee Department of Education and will coordinate with local agencies on teacher development [...]
The Midwest Governors Association (MGA) has announced that it will hold an investment summit in Coloumbus, Ohio, that will focus on how to increase investment in the Midwest. Creating investment through a new energy economy will the central focus for the event. The summit is set to take place September 21-22, 2010. Ohio Governor Ted [...]
Virginia has passed new legislation that will expand charter schools throughout the state. The bills are part of the Governor’s “Opportunity to Learn” agenda, focused on education reform. The laws aim to improve the application and review process for public charter school applicants, as well as establishing uniform statewide input standards for the application process. [...]
The state of Wisconsin will get $50,708,839 in federal grant money to fix struggling schools statewide. The Federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) program is offering the money which is part of the $3.5 billion marked for education funding in the stimulus. The money will be distributed by the state to schools that are identified as [...]
In an announcement last Friday in New York City, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named Suwon, South Korea as the 2010 Intelligent Community of the Year. ICF Co-Founder Louis Zacharilla said Suwon’s commitment to educational investments helped push the city past the other six in what could have been a “seven-way tie.”
Washington State and Colorado both announced Recovery Act grant awards that will institute longitudinal education data systems designed to provide records of student performance from kindergarten through adult employment. Washington was awarded a $17.3 million grant for their system which will provide funding for the system over the next three years. Washington’s new system will [...]
In this year’s annual Building the Broadband Economy Summit, the Intelligent Community Forum looks at how cities across the globe are tying educational requirements to workforce needs, as jobs ebb and flow to disparate parts of the world according to the availability of low-cost, high-speed communications technology.
Both Ohio and Massachusetts announced new initiatives to foster science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and jobs this week. Ohio launched What’s Next? Ohio Career Sim, a Sim designed to help students find careers in the state that rely on STEM education and show them the pathway to getting hired in those fields. The site [...]
