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High Poverty Florida Schools have Negligible Tech Equipment

Florida schools have long struggled with the wide disparities between schools in affluent neighborhoods, and those that serve the state’s weaker sections in high poverty pockets of the state. Low economic status of the students has been proven to be detrimental to a student’s learning ability. Along with other factors like the student’s intellectual capacity and economic status of the schools he or she attends, its not anything that Florida schools can do much about. It’s not surprising that most Florida schools in the state’s poorest belts rank so low on standardized tests.

As a result of these poor performances, many Florida schools that cater to the poor are denied precious funding that would otherwise help them introduce new programs, renovate structures, or upgrade existing tech equipment in their schools. Of all these possible uses for funding, the most important from the point of view of preparing students for life in the real world is undoubtedly access to state of the art computers and technology. With a knowledge driven global economy in which only those with at least minimal computer skills will make the cut, schools that aren’t able to offer access to the latest equipment are in danger of failing their students. Many Florida schools lag dismally in this regard with many students forced to use aging equipment or share computers with other students.

Big Business Backs Florida Schools

Now there appears to be some good news for impoverished Florida schools. Microsoft Corporation’s anti-trust settlement reached with several states, including Florida, means the software giant will shell out funding to each state which will be used by the state’s education department. In Florida’s case, this funding will be in the form of vouchers valued at over $80 million. The technology vouchers will go towards purchasing new computers and software, and will directly impact those Florida schools that would otherwise have no access to the funding for these upgrades.

Benefits to Florida Schools

The schools expected to benefit are those that have at least half the student population on reduced price or free lunches. According to Florida education authorities, at least 1,790 schools with student populations of a total of 1.1 million will be eligible for these technology vouchers. Half the vouchers will be utilized for upgrading existing software and purchasing new ones, while the remainder will be used for hardware. A chunk of the money will also go towards programs that include curriculum development, and training of Florida schools administrators. With this windfall, computer labs at Florida schools will get a much needed shot in the arm. The main beneficiaries will be the students in these Florida schools who will receive much needed access to current technology.



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Patricia Hawke asked:


Students attending Texas Public Schools have many choices. They literally have a plethora of magnet programs to choose from. Depending on their grade level, they can choose to attend a school that focuses on providing the 3 Rs with a slant the Arts, Science, Technology and Foreign Language are all examples of the different types of Texas Schools kids and their parents can choose from.

But what is a magnet school, anyway? A magnet school is a one that, while meeting the educational needs of its students by following state standards, also offers students the chance to study in a unique way. In the beginning, magnet schools were begun with the intent of ending racial segregation. Kids of all economic backgrounds could attend any school they wanted to. In some school systems, like the one that serves many Texas Schools, additional magnet programs have been developed at facilities in locations that parents may have found less than desirable without the magnet option being in place. Instituting magnet programs in Texas Schools has both attracted voluntary enrollment and achieved the desired racial balance.

What are your options? Well, there are magnet programs all throughout the Texas Schools educational system. All students – elementary, middle, and high school – can choose to attend a magnet program. Some Texas Schools programs “feed” into one another; elementary Texas Schools students who attend a performing arts magnet, for example, can continue on to a performing arts middle and high school. Many parents want to ensure their child’s academic success, and that is where the Texas Schools magnet program truly shines. Say your child is really interested in computers. I don’t mean they just like to play computer games. This kid understands all the latest technology, gets excited about tech news, and may have even taken the family PC apart. Well, the little tyke needs to attend a Science and Technology magnet program at one of the Texas Schools! The choice of programs that Texas Schools offer is truly staggering. Following is a sample of some choices in Texas Schools located in Dallas and Houston:

DALLAS HOUSTON

K-5 Visual Arts (grades 4-5) Fine; Creative; and Performing Arts

Leadership (grades 4-5) Leadership; Communication

6-8 Arts (grades 7-8) Fine Performing Arts

Environmental Science Math & Science; Tech & Spanish

Career Exploratory Architecture & Graphic Design

Law Languages; Physical Development

9-12 Health Professions Meteorology & Space Sciences

Education & Social Services Leadership Academy

Business & Management International Studies

Why should you choose a Texas Schools magnet for your child? I confess that I never knew until it was time for my own children to enroll in school. For our family, sending the kids to a magnet school was a better option than attending our “neighborhood school”. Our children attend a Performing Arts magnet this choice reflecting my desire to give the kids some early exposure to the arts, since I studied music through college. For my husband, this was a chance to give his children a chance that he never had – exposure to an arts education.

So go ahead, Texas Schools parents, and give magnet schools a try!



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THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL TAKES ON AMERICAN HISTORY

With a page-a-day authors create a new way to countdown to next year’s elections

What do Americans keep next to their bed? What do they reach for before they turn out the light? David S. Kidder and Noah Oppenheim are betting that it doesn′t have to be a remote control. Last year their first book, The Intellectual Devotional, a small book-sized to approximate the spiritual guides that have traditionally had an honored spot in households, took bookstores by surprise and became an unexpected bestseller. The book has reached over 375,000 in print.

The Intellectual Devotional: American History (Modern Times/Rodale;$ 24;) is the second book in this remarkable series. Like its predecessor, The Intellectual Devotional: American History offers a year of reading–one entry for every day. The point? The subtitle of the book says it best: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation’s Past. Kidder and Oppenheim focus on what you should know — and may have forgotten — from seven fields of knowledge on American history and culture. By the time next year’s Presidential election rolls round, the authors hope to have voters up to speed on what lies behind every decision made at the polls.

The story behind the book is as multilayered as the book itself. The authors’ bring to the process an eclectic mix of backgrounds and skills (including industrial design, journalism, software development and marketing) and a team of credentialed experts in every field. Every decision about the book–from its size, color, and paper–was as conceived and considered as the content. The authors were serious from the start about creating the right book for this era.

The series is a brilliant marriage between one of the oldest kinds of books and the high-tech, too-pressed readers of today. Think of the most gloriously illustrated devotional books of the Renaissance, the Puritan’s books of occasional meditations and the chapbooks which brought the printed word into even the humblest of homes. Think Poor Richard’s Almanac or the Enlightenment’s version (think Michel de Montaigne) and even the multi-volume Popular Educator Library of the 1930′s which sought to provide “a Liberal Education of University Standard.”: there is a history of books that drew from a wide variety of sources and subjects unavailable to many readers. Now, with the internet opening the gateway to unfiltered information, a book that helps winnow down the vast intake once again serves a need.

Arranging the milestones in themes, the book’s layout is deceptively simple. The authors’ designate Mondays for Politics and Leadership; Tuesday deals with War and Peace; Wednesday looks at Rights and Reform Thursday is all Business; Friday tackles Building America; Saturday relaxes with Literature and Sunday extends that to covering the Arts. The entries, a page long, are meant to give not only basic information in a concise fashion but with additional notes at the end of each entry that information is extended in tangential and interesting ways. For example, to know about Cyrus McCormick (a Business entry) you′ll find out about his mechanical reaper and who it impacted. You′ll read how it was resisted by farmers while it became one of the catalyst for Chicago’s growth into a major city. You′ll also discover that his daughter-in-law was a major backer for birth control advocate Margaret Sanger and that the parts of the farm that belonged to McCormick’s father is now part of Virginia Tech.

The choices for entries are both those you might expect as well as those that will surprise you and the view of America as a result is as complex and bustling as the experience of living here. The benefit of the format is how what seems like serendipity enriches the whole. Building America, for example, includes an entry for barbed wire–a utilitarian invention that altered a landscape in ways both physical and metaphoric. The entry travels from ancient Rome to Hollywood. The result is a new perspective on an everyday object–information that creates a resonation of ideas and notions about America and its character.

This is the year when to be an American will be thrown into sharp relief as candidates vie for the vote. The Intellectual Devotional with its bounty of ideas reminds all of us what is at stake each time we choose who will carry our history forward.



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