What Is B.E.S.T.? and labor organizations advocating with legislators and other public policy makers for educational technology to enhance teaching and learning in Massachusetts K12 schools and http://www.best-edtech.org/whatisbest.html
Extractions: Mission Statement BEST Coalition Partner Organizations What has BEST accomplished? What is BEST? BEST is a coalition of business, education and labor organizations advocating with legislators and other public policy makers for educational technology to enhance teaching and learning in Massachusetts K-12 schools and thereby to strengthen the Massachusetts economy. BEST s letterhead lists the heads of the various organizations and associations that form the coalition. BEST meetings are attended by representatives of the coalitions member organizations, business partners, and other individuals who volunteer to work toward our mission. BEST does not employ a lobbyist and does not contribute to political campaigns, but activists do volunteer to visit legislators and other public policy makers to educate them about initiatives that support our mission or to testify at public hearings. BEST also provides frequent information bulletins to keep supporters up-to-date on the latest developments and to share documents that they can use with their constituencies. It uses electronic mail lists, fax, and Web pages to speed communications and to keep costs low. BEST Coordinators: Beth Lowd blowd@mindspring.com
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Mass Software Council education and labor organizations (BEST) advocating the use of educational technology to enhance teaching and learning in Massachusetts K12 schools http://www.masoftware.org/public_policy/issue_tech_pub_k12.asp
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Welcome To Localism Massachusetts' K12 schools are among some of the best in the country. Of course, Technology and Innovation were also highly favorable in the Commonwealth. http://localism.com/blog/ma/posts/1746543/Massachusetts-Lands-a-Spot
Extractions: Sponsor a Community What is Localism? Register or Sign In Explore: What's happening in your neck of the woods? Home Massachusetts Lands a Spot in the Top Five States for Business Rising from its eighth place last year , Massachusetts was named number five in CNBC's " Top States for Business " for 2010. This latest achievement made it the first time for any northeastern state to finish in the top five of this annual survey. States are judged on ten different categories with the cost of doing business as one of the key factors. Some of the other categories are education, quality of life, economy, transportation, technology and innovation. High marks were given to Massachusetts for its exemplary schools. And this was not limited only to its universities. Massachusetts' K-12 schools are among some of the best in the country. Of course, Technology and Innovation were also highly favorable in the Commonwealth. No surprise there. With the number of banks in our state, Access to Capital was also a strong suit. Massachusetts ' foreclosure rate is currently one out of 644 households.
Cisco Systems And Chelmsford School District Announce Partnership For Mass NetDa The oneday initiative to connect Massachusetts K-12 schools to the Internet will give 843 students and 51 teachers at McCarthy access to whole new worlds of information. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cisco Systems and Chelmsford School District Annou
Extractions: 18,427,687 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... PR Newswire artId=18725938;usrSelf=false; One-Day Effort to Wire McCarthy Middle School to the Internet Includes Equipment, Expertise and Volunteers CHELMSFORD, Mass., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ The old schoolhouse won't look the same after Cisco Systems and community volunteers pull thousands of feet of cable and install dozens of Internet connections in McCarthy Middle School in Chelmsford, Mass., as part of Mass NetDay96. The one-day initiative to connect Massachusetts K-12 schools to the Internet will give 843 students and 51 teachers at McCarthy access to whole new worlds of information.
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It's A Wired Wired World | Business Wire | Find Articles At BNET It's all part of Mass NetDay97, a statewide initiative to connect Massachusetts K-12 schools to the Internet. The Chelmsford School District has joined forces with Cisco Systems, a http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_March_25/ai_19244168/
Extractions: BNET Log In Join Search CHELMSFORD, Mass.(BUSINESS WIRE)March 25, 1997 Cisco Systems and Chelmsford School District Kick-Start NetDay97 with Wiring Workshop While Chelmsford students are preparing for spring vacation, their parents and teachers are heading back to school. It's all part of Mass NetDay97, a state-wide initiative to connect Massachusetts K-12 schools to the Internet. The Chelmsford School District has joined forces with Cisco Systems, a leading global supplier of internetworking solutions, to make Mass NetDay a success. About 40 parents, teachers and community volunteers from Chelmsford, Westford and Boxborough got a head start on NetDay with a crash course on the rudiments of networking, hosted by Cisco at its New England offices in Chelmsford. These volunteers will bring their new-found wiring expertise to six Chelmsford public schools on Mass NetDay on April 5, laying more than 26 miles of cable throughout the schools. Their efforts will create 300 Internet connections and bring 125 more classrooms into the information age.
LKR Design and labor organizations advocating with legislators and other public policy makers for educational technology to enhance teaching and learning in Massachusetts K12 schools and http://lkrdesign.com/clients.htm
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It's A Wired Wired World. - Free Online Library It's all part of Mass NetDay97, a statewide initiative to connect Massachusetts K-12 schools to the Internet. The Chelmsford School District has joined forces with Cisco Systems http://www.thefreelibrary.com/It's a wired wired world.-a019244168
NERC | Northeast Recycling Council Protection (MassDEP) kicked off its 2008 2009 school Green Team program, an interactive recycling and environmental education club for Massachusetts K - 12 schools. http://www.nerc.org/documents/bulletin/200902.html
2007 Annual Report While Pioneer's formula of high academic standards, accountability, schoolbased flexibility and parental choice have helped make Massachusetts' K-12 schools the best in the nation http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/2007_annual_report.pdf
Home School Support - Teaching K-12 Web66 Massachusetts K12 Schools. Web66 West Virginia Schools. Webb66 International WWW Schools Registry. WMHT/School 14 Internet Testbed Project Introducing teachers at Troy City http://www.icyber.com/homeschool/olrk12.html
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Superintendent Mark Masterson Maynard Public Schools these analyses will be used to evaluate your buildings' performances, compare your buildings to each other within the district and compare them to other Massachusetts K12 schools. http://www.maynardschools.org/MSBA/FMA Information request letter Maynard_091107
Philip Mahler Board Of Directors Measurement is problematic, and one must wonder about these things when Massachusetts K12 schools perform at the top of national norms, but only get bashed based, nowadays, on http://mccc-union.org/MTA_Director_Reports/MTA_BOD_Report_020207.pdf
