Projects:

Central Cluster Projects
Brief Abstracts

Illinois:

The Chicago Neighborhood Learning Network
Through conveniently located neighborhood sites, the NLN will provide students, parents, and teachers with expanded access to learning resources that develop the lifelong learning skills needed to compete in the 21st century... (MORE)

The Reality Based Learning Project
The Reality Based Learning Project is designed to create a network of nine Illinois schools in which teachers and students use their knowledge and skills to serve as consultants, addressing "real world problems," generated through an active collaboration with business, government, community organizations, and higher education... (MORE)

Learning Community 2000
Learning Community 2000 addresses the need to recreate civics education to promote informed and responsible participation in a democracy informed and responsible participation in a democracy changed by emerging information technologies... (MORE)

Technology and Learning Collaborative
The TLC consortium is implementing a community-wide math and science education program based on innovative uses of new technologies and project-based learning activities... (MORE)

Indiana:

Anderson Community Technology NOW! Project
Anderson Community Technology Now! Project is a consortium of local and state agencies in Indiana that is combining innovative technology initiatives to raise the academic achievement of Anderson Community School Corporation's underchallenged and at-risk students and their families... (MORE)

Students as Agents of Change
Beginning in the middle schools, teachers and students will master common skills in multimedia development to create curriculum materials, and reports on African and Africa-American heritage that can be added to the traditional curriculum... (MORE)

The Learning Cooperative
The Indianapolis Public Schools in Indiana are pioneering a school/government/business consortium called The Learning Cooperative: Connecting and Supporting Systematic Mathematics, Science, and Technology Initiatives via Telecommunication... (MORE)

Kansas:

Kansas Collaborative Research Network
National and local standards emphasize "doing science" and "science for all Americans." The KanCRN is a local collaborative research model that uses technology to build on the fundamental teaching principles of these national and local standards... (MORE)

Michigan:

The Primary Sources Network
Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Public Schools in Michigan are working in partnership with 14 school districts, Michigan State University, and the Henry Ford Museum to use the World Wide Web and distance learning over the Internet to improve student learning... (MORE)

Newaygo County Advanced Technology Service
The NCATS consortium has been established to develop and maintain an advanced fiber-optic cable telecommunications network that will enrich the education process... (MORE)

Missouri:

Project Whistle-stop
Project Whistle-stop will enable educators to work with the Harry S. Truman Library to put original resource documents on-line... (MORE)

The Trails Project
Teachers and students representing schools along the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails will work in partnership with universities, museums, historical groups, and interested citizens to learn about the history of these trails that played a crucial role in western settlement and they will communicate, through technology, what they discover... (MORE)

Oklahoma:

The Aurora Project
he Aurora Project brings together teachers from across the State of Oklahoma to create a technology-based curriculum tied to Oklahoma's Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) standards... (MORE)

Nebraska:

Technology, Reform, and National Education Standards
The Technology, Reform and National Education Standards Projects, initiated by Educational Service Unit #5 in Nebraska, uses foreign language instruction as the centerpiece of a comprehensive program of educational reform at the elementary and secondary school levels in Nebraska and Iowa... (MORE)

North Dakota:

NatureShift!
NatureShift! is a student and Internet-centered, standards-aware and curricula-based project focused on the interaction between the natural world, human society, and history... (MORE)

Ohio:

New3: New Technology, New Knowledge, New Work
New3: New Technology, New Knowledge, New Work is a broad consortium of educational institutions, government agencies, private businesses, and philanthropic organizations dedicated to the goal of transforming teaching and learning in Ohio's Summit County School District by the year 2000... (MORE)

South Dakota:

Technology in Education Challenge for Rural America
The TEC-RAM consortium, established by the Black Hills Special Services Cooperative in South Dakota, has organized a state-wide, community-focused education program to advance the effective use of technology in restructuring schools by:

• Introducing innovative educational technologies in a state-wide redesign of K-12 curricula, instruction and assessment
• Capitalizing on new technologies to promote student integrating instructional technologies into the curricula.

VISIONS TECWEB
VISIONS TECWEB addresses the needs of nearly 3,000 disadvantaged and special needs Native American youth in a tri-state region. TECWEB, or Technology Education Challenge -- World's Expanding Boundaries, directs a student-involved, teacher-controlled, community-based model which uses traditional Lakota values as guiding principles for infusing technology with the curricula... (MORE)

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