Projects:

Projects:

Virginia
The Education Connection

Project Homepage:
http://educationforecast.org

The Education Connection features a five year collaboration by six public broadcasters with 21 partner schools throughout the United States. The partners are: KCET-TV, Los Angeles; Louisiana Public Broadcasting; Mississippi Educational Television, the SOUNDPRINT Media Center, Washington, DC and Laurel, MD; WHRO FM/TV, Norfolk, Va; and WHYY FM/TV, Philadelphia, Pa.

The project partners are committed to the following:

* Developing curriculum for K-12 using new telecommunications technologies;

* Implementing infrastructure for teachers, students and parents in at-risk school districts to assure the appropriate use of the curriculum;

* Providing training for teachers, parents, and administrators not only for the use of technology in the classroom, but for the adaptation of curriculum;

* Designing an evaluation strategy which uses the attainment of local, regional and national standards as benchmarks to measure the effectiveness of curriculum, technology implementation and training;

* Disseminating the curriculum, the training, and the evaluation results nationally.

Year Grant Awarded:
1996

Grantee:
Norfolk Public Schools,
VA

Project Director:
Moira K. Rankin
Phone: : 301-317-0110
Fax: 301-317-6794
Email:
Info@soundprint.org

Address:
SOUNDPRINT Media Center, Inc.
525 Main Street,
Suite 105
Laurel, MD 20707