April's Best Practices Showcase Announced by Learning Network's Myschoolonline.Business/Technology Editors and Education Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2001 myschoolonline.com, part of Learning Network, today announced its Best Practices Showcase for the month of April, featuring outstanding sites on the service. Out of the 1,502 school districts, 12,000 individual schools, 43,925 teachers, and 4,820 local community groups and PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education. units currently building free Web sites on myschoolonline.com, the following were selected for the Best Site Showcase. To see this month's winning Web sites, visit www.myschoolonline.com, Best Practices Showcase. -- Best District Sites: Northland Pines School District (Eagle River, WI) Downington Area School District (Downington, PA) Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional (East Rutherford, NJ) -- Best School Sites: Northland Pines Middle School (Eagle River, WI) St. John Vianney School (Colonia, NJ) St. John Bosco HAS (Hammond, IN) -- Best Teacher Sites: Mrs. Richie (George H. Fisher Elementary School, Redford, MI) Mrs. Forbi (O'Donnell Elementary School, O'Donnell, TX) Mrs. Abernethy (East Elementary School, Greenville, PA) Mrs. Gritter (Grace Lutheran School, La Plata, MD) -- Best PTA Sites: Zena Elementary School PTA (Kingston, NY) Waverly Elementary School PTA (Frederick, MD) Cooper-Weisberg PTA (Superior, WI) Council PTA (Fremont, CA) Gunpowder PTA (Baltimore, MD) In total, 57,459 teachers, K-12 educators, and community group and local PTA unit members use myschoolonline to develop and host free Web sites that bring school-related information home to parents and students. The Best Practices Showcase recognizes those Web sites that have integrated 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 in the learning process of students and that have mastered online communication between the home and school, thus increasing parental involvement in schools and classrooms. For more information, visit myschoolonline.com. About Learning Network Learning Network, the Internet's premier consumer-education source, currently offers an unmatched array of online educational tools, content, resources, and communities serving the K-12, Professional Development, Lifelong Learning Lifelong learning is the concept that "It's never too soon or too late for learning", a philosophy that has taken root in a whole host of different organisations. Lifelong learning is attitudinal; that one can and should be open to new ideas, decisions, skills or behaviors. , and Reference markets. Offerings for the College market will roll out later in 2001. Each of the five vertically integrated networks A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. is supported by the Learning Network Store (which hosts both online and offline education products related to Learning Network services). Learning Network is built on a strong foundation of assets from the international media company Pearson Pear·son , Lester Bowles 1897-1972. Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1963-1968). He won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the negotiation of a solution to the Suez crisis (1956). plc, as well as educational properties from leading technology companies. Learning Network has business offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Boston, Chicago, and Paramus, NJ. For more information, call 1-888-816-1999, or visit www.learningnetwork.com on the Internet (America Online See AOL. Keyword: Learning Network). |
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