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Pentaho's BI Platform Released Under GPL

Pentaho, a maker of open business intelligence (BI) software, is moving away from the Mozilla Public License for its BI product. The company announced this month that Version 2 alpha, as well as subsequent versions of its Pentaho BI platform, will be released under the GNU GPL Version 2 license.
(6/24/2008)

Northern CA District To Upgrade Student Data Management

Santa Cruz City Schools in Northern California is replacing its student information system (SIS) with Infinite Campus in a deployment that's expected to be completed in early 2009.
(5/28/2008)

Case Study: Data Warehousing at Hillsborough County Public Schools

One of the country's largest school districts has found great success in managing student records through a customized data warehousing, reporting, and analytics package. Teachers and administrators are extremely pleased with the tool, which helps them track the large and often transient student populations they serve in rapidly growing Hillsborough County, Florida.
(5/28/2008)

North Carolina District Adopts Data-Driven Approach to Instruction

Administrators at Iredell-Statesville Schools in North Carolina have adopted Follett Software's TetraData DASH, an analytics and communications tool.
(4/17/2008)

Inform 4.2 Adds Academic Intervention Plan

Pearson School Systems has released an update to Pearson Inform, a data analysis tool for K-12 schools. The new release, Inform 4.2, adds a new Academic Intervention Plan feature for planning individualize and group instruction.
(11/29/2007)

IBM To Nab BI Tech Firm Cognos

IBM said this week it's entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cognos, a firm that provides business intelligence technologies to K-12 and higher education and other sectors. The deal is still dependent on shareholder and regulatory approval and other conditions but is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008 and is valued at about $5 billion.
(11/13/2007)

Kentucky DOE Taps BI Firm for NCLB Compliance

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has awarded a contract to Claraview Inc., a business intelligence consultancy based in Reston, VA. According to the terms of the deal, Claraview will supply BI services to help improve student learning and help KDE in its efforts to comply with NCLB.
(6/19/2007)

Driving High-Tech Assessment

(12/1/2005)

Keeping Tech Support In Step With Technology

(12/1/2005)

Accelerating Out of Technologic Adolescence

(11/1/2005)

Welcome to Your New T.H.E.—Keep the Best, Improve the Rest!

(11/1/2005)

Tech + Imagination = Results

(10/1/2005)

Teachers Talk Tech

(10/1/2005)

JASON Becomes a Subsidiary of National Geographic Society

(10/1/2005)

4GL Acquires Tranquility to Expand Special-Ed Solutions

(10/1/2005)

Letter From The Publisher

(10/1/2005)

Determining ‘Fair Use’ Practices

(10/1/2005)

Dissecting a Network-Based Education System

The methods used to design the Alabama Learning Exchange can be replicated to create your own efficient, cost-effective, network-based education systems.
(9/1/2005)