We're pleased to be able to offer this hardened ThinkPad Chromebook as a great computer for schools.
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Each bus would drive to different schools each day, thereby sharing the computer experience among many schools rather than having stationary PC labs.
To win support from residents, soldiers have established new training schools and computer labs.
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Even if there were already trained teachers who could teach entry level computer science in high schools, budget and union constraints would make it very difficult to hire them.
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Code.org wants to tackle a complicated problem: how to get more schools to teach computer science as budgets shrink.
Only 5% of high schools offer an AP Computer Science course.
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For computer-based learning to transform schools into child-centric learning environments, schools must implement the instructional software disruptively, by letting it compete where the alternative is no teacher at all.
In a statement, the Department for Education said it agreed with Microsoft and that was why the "out-dated ICT curriculum" was scrapped last year, with computer science now being taught in schools.
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But it follows long-standing complaints by the teachers that the computerized exams take up too much instructional time and force schools to close off computer labs for long stretches to administer the exams.
His schools now extend to computer classes and various second language classes, some even outside Brazil (already in China, the US, Japan, Mexico and four other countries, they most recently announced another school opening in Panama).
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The best returns are often from schools with strong engineering, computer science, economics and natural-science programs.
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The campaign to boost the teaching of computer skills - particularly coding - in schools is gathering force.
Northern Ireland's education minister has said up to 400 primary schools are experiencing problems with computer assessments for P4 and P7 pupils.
About 30% of the 1998 graduating class of the famed Indian Institute of Technology--and a staggering 80% of the graduates in computer science--headed for graduate schools or jobs in the United States.
In January 2012, Mr Gove announced he was replacing the information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in schools with a more challenging computer science curriculum, developed to meet the needs of technology firms.
It is an subject which was raised by the Google chairman Eric Schmidt in a speech in Edinburgh in August, where he expressed amazement that computer science was not taught in British schools.
To rectify the problem, he's decreed that English be taught in all schools beginning in first grade and computer education in second.
The foundation argues there is a worldwide shortage of computer programmers but that only 1 in 10 schools in America teach kids how to code.
She said there was a requirement in law that such assessments were carried out in primary schools and a trial of the computer-based assessments had shown no major faults.
The Texas State Library Archives Commission is using BTOP funding to add and upgrade computer centers in libraries, community colleges, schools, recreation centers and other public buildings around the state.
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The schools invest the money they save through computer learning back into teacher salaries and coaching.
But even as technology becomes an integral part of most people's lives, fewer computer-science courses are being offered in high schools.
That is why we have given free schools and academies the same freedoms the best independent schools enjoy to hire great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and others who can inspire their pupils.
And the truth of the matter is even as overcrowded as schools may be, as poor the computer equipment may be, if you took a bunch of kids right now from China or India and you put them in these classrooms, from their perspective these would be unbelievable schools.
He said he had been flabbergasted to learn that computer science was not taught as standard in UK schools, despite what he called the "fabulous initiative" in the 1980s when the BBC not only broadcast programmes for children about coding, but shipped over a million BBC Micro computers into schools and homes.
The company reportedly has been courting schools to make use of its popular tablet computer.
Recent research from Microsoft Research UK into how computing is taught at high schools around the world, explained that teaching computer science had significant educational and economic benefits.
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Chiara Coletti, a New York City Schools spokeswoman, said all five were good, computer-savvy students.
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Having computer science in the EBacc will have a big impact on schools over the next decade.
John O'Dowd was responding to concerns raised by schools in relation to technical issues with the new computer based assessment system.
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