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 * eSchool News - Best Practices**
 * [|Making a connection]Stationed thousands of miles away in Afghanistan, Staff Sergeant Kevin S. Cook is online checking a list of reading materials for his daughter Alex...
 * [|Distance program transforming Ala. high schools]We often call it a "distance learning" program, but it's proving to be a lot more than that. In fact, the Alabama ed-tech initiative known as ACCES...
 * [|Wireless WAN creates new learning opportunities]When David Mabe first sat down at his desk as the new deputy executive director of the sprawling Northeast Texas Regional Education Telecommunicati...
 * [|Perfect harmony]Empire Union School District in Modesto, Calif., is a K-8 district serving 3,500 students, with seven sites and a district office. It employs 192 f...
 * [|Tech, mentoring combine to raise scores for at-risk students]"Education must be focused, defined, and measurable rather than random and accidental. At Brewster Elementary, we have applied these principals usi...


 * School Library Journal - NeverEndingSearch**
 * [|CNN and me on the Future of Libraries (and Librarians)]Think of the change as a Library 2.0 revolution -- a mirror of what's happened on the Web. Finally, a mainstream piece that (in my mind) nearly g...
 * [|I declare September, Avatar Month (or who are you?)]If I had the power, I'd declare September Avatar Month. As we break the classroom ice and get to know each other over the coming month, c...
 * [|Animoto's big news! Video and new music]It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Animoto, the storytelling tool that allows us to easily produce professional looking music videos. J...


 * ReadWriteWeb**
 * [|Google Launches Internet Stat Center] 32 minutes ago Without any fanfare, Google has launched a new resource called "Google Internet Stats" which brings together industry facts and insights from acros...
 * [|Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Mobile Web & Augmented Reality] Today 9:30 am This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we've explored these trends: Structured Da...
 * [|Sponsor Post: "Good Enough" Is the Bare Minimum] Today 9:25 am Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as wri...


 * NPR Topics: Education**
 * [|Former Educator Embraces 'Crazy' Teaching Style] Yesterday 4:58 pm Ben Chavis is a retired principal of American Indian Public Charter School, a successful inner-city school in Oakland. Chavis, who is Native-Americ...
 * [|D.C. Students React To President's Message] Tuesday, 5:19 pm President Obama addressed the nation's schoolchildren Tuesday, urging them to work hard. Some students at Stuart-Hobson Middle School in Washington...
 * [|Fla. Principal On Showing Obama's Speech] Tuesday, 4:58 pm Several schools did not show President Obama's speech Tuesday to the schoolchildren, but Jean Ferguson, principal of Amos P. Godbey High School in ...