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AASB E-News
January 4, 2007
--PRESIDENT BUSH SEEKS CONSENSUS ON NO
CHILD LEFT BEHIND
--REPLACING BOOKS WITH COMPUTERS SHOWS
PROMISE
--LOW-COST LAPTOP COULD TRANSFORM
LEARNING
--IN-STATE RETIREE BENEFITS UPHELD
--PLANNING FOR A FLU PANDEMIC
--BOARD MEMBER WALKS MILE IN STUDENT
SHOES
PRESIDENT BUSH SEEKS
CONSENSUS ON NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
President Bush plans to meet with lawmakers next week to jump
start talks over the renewal of the No Child Left Behind education law, a
Democratic congressional aide says. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is
optimistic about chances of renewing the law for five more years. See full
story here:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/01/03/bush.education.ap/index.html
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REPLACING BOOKS WITH
COMPUTERS SHOWS PROMISE
The books are open at Wendler Middle School in Anchorage
– MacBooks, that is. Sixty seventh-graders there have received
free-to-use laptops. They canŐt take them home, yet. But they haul them around
between classes, use them for note-taking and other assignments and tap into
wireless Internet for easy research and browsing. See full story here:
http://www.adn.com/news/education/story/8527758p-8421477c.html
Link to the AASB Consortium
for Digital Learning here:
http://web.mac.com/aasb.cdl/iWeb/Consortium%20for%20Digital%20Learning/AASB-CDL%20Home.html
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LOW-COST LAPTOP COULD
TRANSFORM LEARNING
Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When
students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150
computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will
be unlike anything on standards PCs.
See full story here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070101/ap_on_hi_te/hundred_dollar_laptop
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IN-STATE RETIREE BENEFITS
UPHELD
Government retirees no longer living in Alaska will not
receive the special cost-of-living allowance available to in-state retirees,
the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled. The decision shoots down a challenge led by
Bob Gallant, a retired Alaska corrections officer now living in Hawaii. A win
by the plaintiff would have cost the stateŐs retirement systems millions. See
full story here:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/story/8536377p-8430253c.html
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PLANNING FOR A
FLU PANDEMIC
The Fairbanks North Star Borough is
undertaking a public education campaign to help residents to prepare for the
possibility of an influenza pandemic. The series of neighborhood meetings,
which will start Jan. 16 and continue through February, come less than a year
after the borough finished work on a local pandemic preparedness manual. See
full story here:
http://newsminer.com/2007/01/02/4197/
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BOARD MEMBER
WALKS MILE IN STUDENT SHOES
As a veteran substitute teacher, Matanuska-Susitna
Borough School Board member Pat Purcell is no strange to high schools. But
things are different on the other side of the teacherŐs desk, say members of
the School District Student Advisory Board. To prove it, they invited Purcell
to spend a day as a high school student, a role she says she hadnŐt played
since graduating nearly 40 years ago. See full story here:
http://www.adn.com/news/education/story/8519725p-8412777c.html
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