ADVISORY/ Boston Becomes First Fully Wired Urban School District.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- -0-
WHO: Mayor Thomas M. Menino will join Senator Edward Kennedy,
Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant and more than 250 Boston
Public School students to announce that Boston is the first
urban school district in the nation to network every school
and community center.
WHEN: Monday, October 26, 1998, 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: Mather Elementary School
1 Parish Street, Dorchester
Schedule of events at Mather Elementary School
(1 Parish Street, Dorchester):
10:30am Computer Lab tour. Mayor Menino and Senator
Kennedy tour the computer lab and view
student work.
10:45am Coffee in the teacher's lounge. Mayor
Menino and Senator Kennedy meet with
Boston's business partners who made this
major milestone possible with more than $26
million in donations.
11:00am Press Conference. Mayor Menino, Senator
Kennedy, and Superintendent Payzant will
join teachers and student speakers for the
announcement.
Boston Boston, town, England Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent. Becomes First Big City in U.S. to Network Every School Boston will become the first large urban school district in the nation to network every school and library when it celebrates Boston Net Day on October October: see month. 26, 1998. The achievement is a major milestone in a two-year-old two-year-old a horse aged between 2 and 3 years, the age dating from the horse's date of birth. In racehorses the birth date of the horse is as determined by the local racing authority as the birthday of all horses. public/private partnership that has attracted more than $26 million in outside funding to bring computer technology to Boston's 64,000 students and 4,800 teachers. Concerned by the growing disparities in access to new technology, Boston Mayor Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs M. Menino in 1996 announced his plan to install one computer for every four students and wire all schools, libraries and community centers to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the by 2001. Also that year, President Clinton Clinton. 1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. and Vice President Gore unveiled a challenge to wire every school in the U.S. to the Internet by the turn of the century. Boston is the first major urban school district in America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. to meet that challenge. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. researchers, 70% of America's families with incomes over $50,000 have computers in the home. But 90% of Boston students lacked access to computers at home when the initiative began. Now, every student will have a chance to use technology as a learning tool and prepare for productive lives in our technology-driven economy. Over 100 business partners, including 3Com, Intel, HiQ and Microsoft, have joined government and the community, including labor unions labor union: see union, labor. such as the I.B.E.W., to make Boston's goal a reality. Corporate donors also helped to create the first free training facility to help teachers incorporate technology into their curriculum, to supplement traditional "chalk and talk" teaching with new interactive learning applications. And the Boston Teachers Union encourages every teacher to undertake a technology assessment and develop a plan for utilizing new school technology. Business executives say they invested in Boston because of the administration's commitment to education and because of confidence in Boston's Superintendent of Schools, Thomas Payzant. The Superintendent points to the new technology as another vehicle to reach higher standards of teaching and learning in the classroom as well as greater accountability throughout the system. The networking of every school and library in Boston will connect students and teachers to resources outside the classroom. It will equip e·quip tr.v. e·quipped, e·quip·ping, e·quips 1. a. To supply with necessities such as tools or provisions. b. students with tools to enrich learning. It will provide teachers with ways to motivate students. It will allow greater use of e-mail to enhance communication among educators and parents. And it will enable schools to benefit from the City's new contract with Cablevision, which commits the cable company to provide every school and library with free high-speed Internet See broadband. service for the next ten years. For more information, please see www.netyearboston.org. |
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