EDUCATION

Indiana is so focused on the future of its technology initiative that when some companies offered free technology, the state turned them down.

The prospects for U.S. education levels are a lot like global warming. Since erosion occurs gradually, it’s easy to ignore. But if the U.S. doesn’t pay more attention, everything from its competitiveness to its standard of living could sink.

Despite efforts by schools to discipline students and train them in safe and sound Net usage, parents need to get involved. Some tips:

“I think if the university community hears news from the newspaper or television, I’m not doing my job,” he said. “We’re not waiting for a whisper in someone’s ear.”

‘The Kalamazoo Promise’ will foot the bill at any public university in
Michigan for local high school graduates.

"This is a sad day. We’re becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I hate that,"

A growing number of schools are using Web-based services to post grades, list homework assignments and communicate with parents.

"The scientific and technical building blocks of our economic leadership are eroding at a time when many other nations are gathering strength," the National Academy of Sciences observed in a report released last month. "Although many people assume that the United States will always be a world leader in science and technology, this may not continue to be the case inasmuch as great minds and ideas exist throughout the world. We fear the abruptness with which a lead in science and technology can be lost – and the difficulty of recovering a lead once lost, if indeed it can be regained at all."

UM established the program through a recent $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Topics including ADA compliance, domain names, web file structures, HTML, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL, and databases will be covered.