Millions donated to revamp K-12 technology.The Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. Corp.'s U.S. Partners in Learning program will invest $35 million in the next five years to work with the state of Washington to revamp re·vamp tr.v. re·vamped, re·vamp·ing, re·vamps 1. To patch up or restore; renovate. 2. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example). 3. To vamp (a shoe) anew. n. the way technology is used in schools across the country. Three million dollars has been committed to Washington, where Microsoft, educational agencies and state educators will work together to devise programs that will prepare teachers to use 21st century skills in innovative ways in the classroom and help at-risk students The term at-risk students is used to describe students who are "at risk" of failing academically, for one or more of any several reasons. The term can be used to describe a wide variety of students, including,
"Technology has opened new doors of opportunity for our students and has also placed a new responsibility on our educators. By working with an innovator such as Microsoft we will be able to better use technology in our classrooms and develop teaching models that can be used in our state and across the country," Washington Gov. Gary Locke Gary Locke may be:
JES (Job Entry Subsystem) Software that provides batch communications for IBM's MVS operating system. It accepts data from remote batch terminals, executes them on a priority basis and transmits the results back to the terminals. The JES counterpart in VM is RSCS. & Co., an Arizona-based, non-profit education research and development corporation, is one of several companies working with Microsoft to design programming and professional development. "The states themselves will help us define and build this exciting program," says Dini Golder-Dardis, executive director of JES & Co. JES is working with Microsoft to develop five online courses to improve students' and teachers' abilities to construct networks, use software for school projects and integrate technology in the classroom. "The education of tomorrow demands that we innovate in·no·vate v. in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates v.tr. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. v.intr. To begin or introduce something new. today," says Sherri Bealkowski, general manager of the Public Sector Solutions and Programs group at Microsoft, "and invest in this effort as a community." |
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