Projects:

Northeast Cluster Projects
Brief Abstracts

Silicon Valley Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project
Under the leadership of the San Mateo County Office of Education, and a consortium of industry partners called Joint Venture: Silicon Valley (JVSV) Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project focuses on the use of multimedia technologies in the creation of student instructional units. Students pursue interdisciplinary projects built around real world problems using multimedia tools ranging from simple audio cassette players to sophisticated digital editing and web authoring programs...(MORE)

Georgia:

Education for a Sustainable Future
The Education for a Sustainable Future Project, managed by the Cobb County School District in Georgia, will develop technology-rich, inquiry-based K-12 learning materials to address sustainable development topics... (MORE)

Maine:

Electronic Learning Marketplace
This Southern Maine Partnership involves 27 school districts, 3 private schools, 3 colleges, and the University of Southern Maine, who are working together to provide new learning opportunities that will enable students and teachers to meet the high academic standards defined by Maine's Learning Results... (MORE)

Massachusetts:

MetroLINC
The Metro-LINC project, created by the Boston Public Schools in Massachusetts, will equip, staff, train, and support 104 elementary and middle schools to implement standards-based education using technology as a primary tool for teaching and learning... (MORE)

The Virtual High School Collaborative
This Virtual High School Collaborative, initiated by the Hudson Public Schools in Massachusetts, is developing and offering a rich variety of learning resources over the Internet... (MORE)

Teaching and Learning with Technology
In the Lawrence Public Schools, high performance technologies will be used to provide teachers with new tools to engage students as active learners capable of mastering challenging academic subject matter... (MORE)

New Hampshire:

The Manchester Challenge
The Manchester Challenge is a large-scale education reform effort that is integrating instructional technologies into the curriculum of elementary, middle and high schools in the Manchester School District in New Hampshire... (MORE)

New York:

American Gateways: Immigration and Migration in the United States
Community School District One on New York City's Lower East Side and Districts Four and Five in Harlem are establishing a consortium of teachers, staff developers, curriculum specialists, community leaders, software developers, and university faculty who will restructure the curriculum around the theme of immigration and migration in the United States... (MORE)

The Corning Community Project for Learning and Teaching
The Corning City School District in Painted Post, NY, will work with local partners including the Corning Museum of Glass and Corning Inc., to address two challenges: how to prepare students to meet the demands of a rapidly changing workplace, and how to address the issue of fairness and equity in a community characterized by social and economic extremes... (MORE)

The Eiffel Project
A consortium, led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) and the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University, is joining with the New York City Board of Education and several information and telecommunications firms to demonstrate how low-income children can achieve world-class education standards... (MORE)

Pennsylvania

New Vision
New Vision is a consortium of school districts, post-secondary institutions, museums and private industries that demonstrates the dynamic ability of emerging technologies to expand and improve educational opportunities in rural, remote, poor school districts... (MORE)

Vermont:

The Web Project
The Web Project, subtitled Creating a WEB of Evidence of Student Performance in Nonverbal Inquiry and Expression, is a consortium of state agencies, private industries, and educational institutions that are utilizing new technologies to enact systematic reform in school systems throughout Vermont... (MORE)

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