K12> Resources For Administrators

  • From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:05:42 -0600

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RESOURCES FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR
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Acceptable Use Policies
Compare Online Educational Delivery Applications
Develop Technology Skills of Professors
Examples of Real Achievement
Evaluate Management Software
Management Research + Practice
Professional Organizations
State Education Associations K-12
Education Resource Organization Directory
Technology Intitiatives by State
Teaching to State Standards - TESTING
Integrating the Arts
Why Music Makes You Smarter
21st Century Community Learning Centers - Money
Grants from the big 6
National Center for Education Statistics
U of Michagan Education Statistics
Ranking Most Wired Colleges
Legal Issues and solutions
Sponsors and Funding

TV WATCHING
Average science scale scores by amount of time students reported watching
television/videos, grade 4 (public and nonpublic schools combined): 2000
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science/results/television-g4.asp
Grade 4-8-12 have 20-30 pt differences from watching 1 hr or less
compared to 5 or 6 hrs.
10 point differences with increased group work.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science/results/workwithothers.asp
States have a 30 point spread
<http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science/results/stateavgscale-g4.asp>
<http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science/results/stateavgscale-g8.asp>
50 pt gain (8th gr.) if there are more than a
hundred books at home (compared to none) and a 25 pt gain if student
reports reading for 9-10 hrs a week.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/

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SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning
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