Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Steve Case, chair and CEO of AmericaOnline, which is donating services to help makethe Web White & Blue project possible, stressedthe value of the Web as a tool for voters...
...tiny (pop: 27,000) farm community, about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, decided to integrate its college-prep and "general" education students so that slow, average and accelerated learners would sit side by side. It is a bold experiment. Segregating students by ability--a vintage classroom organizational tool known as "tracking" or "ability grouping"--is practiced in at least 80% of U.S. high schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But in Santa Paula, anger at the grouping system had smoldered for decades. "This is a small town that's been run the same way forever," says...
...have to be convinced of the quality," said Dean K. Whitla, a lecturer on education at the Graduate School of Education. "Automation certainly can help, but it has to be seen as a tool...It shouldn't dominate [students'] lives...
...Even better recording technology is on its way: DVD-RAM and DVD-RW are erasable discs that can hold up to eight times as much data (or music) as CD-R discs. All this is not lost on the tech-wary music industry. "Recordable CDs have become the tool of choice for a new generation of music pirates," frets Cary Sherman, general counsel at the Recording Industry Association of America...
...Apparently, someone forgot to set a size limit on file names for attachments. Oops. While Microsoft and Netscape say they've yet to hear of any hackers exploiting the bug, "I would be surprised if there weren't some bad guys out there who already had this in their tool kit," says Cheswick...