Browse Shields, Charles J.

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Dropping the dropout rate nearly 1 in 7 of this district's students weren't graduating in 1990. Now the dropout rate is less than 1 percent. Here's why.	Sep 1, 2004	1019
Progress report: how the school district in the nation's 13th poorest region boosted its test scores by 182 percent.	May 1, 2004	1340
Trailblazers: bland and boring. That's how most teens rate their district's online efforts. What can you learn from student web sites?	Apr 1, 2004	2348
The cybrarians are coming: need to join technology with instruction? Leave it to your in-house Cyber Librarian.	Sep 1, 2003	1522
Are we there yet? Technology across the curriculum holds promise, but payoff has been elusive.	Aug 1, 2003	1481
Are you being served? Smaller, faster and more affordable, today's servers can help transform a district's network center.	Aug 1, 2003	4007
Breaking down the new education bill: a look at what the various requirements will mean for school districts, as well as a list of changes to occur this fall.	Aug 1, 2002	1486
Harvest time: a new culture of students armed with laptops is cropping up. But what makes this story different? You'll never believe who's involved.	Aug 1, 2002	1651
Numbers game: sick of hearing about poor scores, non-existent retention and student apathy when it comes to mathematics? Overhauling your curriculum by basing it in the real-world could be the jolt that your district needs. (Focus: math).	Apr 1, 2002	1459
Holding together the pluribus and the unum: challenging? Yes. Do-able? Yes. How educators can turn social studies, the catch-all curriculum, into an integrated subject. .	Nov 1, 2001	2257