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T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Paula Jacobs	Power Grab Facilities departments combine sophisticated technologies with ordinary common-sense steps to shave dollars and kilowatts off energy consumption.
T.H.E. Journal May 2006 Matt Miller	Staying Connected Is a 'Breeze' An ed-tech specialist explains how a versatile Web conferencing tool is helping his sprawling district remove the distance between teachers, administrators, and staff.
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Williams & Krueger	Is Your Network Safe? Why educators should care about cybersecurity - and what they should do about it.
T.H.E. Journal December 2008 Charlene O'Hanlon	A Savings Twofer Efforts to reduce the costs of operating the district data center are also producing positive benefits for the environment.
T.H.E. Journal February 22, 2010 Scott Aronowitz	Georgia District Drives Savings Through Energy Initiative Marietta City Schools launched a competition among the schools in the district that led to energy and cost savings in every school in the district.
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 Robert J. McGarvey	You Want Me to What ? It's a riddle faced by virtually every IT director: how to fulfill users' desire for more muscular computing resources while still obliging administrators' commands to keep education spending down.
T.H.E. Journal December 2006 Linda L. Briggs	Document Management :: It Prints! It Faxes! It Scans! A state-of-the-art multifunction publishing system combines the work of several devices into a single unit, creating dramatic savings in paper use and personnel time.
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Jacob Milner	VoIP to the Rescue Faced with the challenges hampering school communications nationwide, three districts forge into the 21st century with Web-based telephony.
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T.H.E. Journal November 2006 Neal Starkman	Special Section: Resource Management :: Value Judgments Are your technology expenditures proving to be money well spent? A new online total cost of ownership (TCO) tool will let you know.
T.H.E. Journal June 2008 Jennifer Demski	Green Schools : Electric Youth Students from Montgomery County Public Schools light the way to energy efficiency.
T.H.E. Journal April 1, 2010 Bridget McCrea	It Goes Both Ways The days of using the internet as merely a one-way supplier of news are over. With social media tools encouraging a back- and-forth exchange of information, parents, alumni, and other stakeholders can participate directly in the life of their school.
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Jeff Jennings	IT in a Time of Budget Cuts How school funding will affect the quality of education
Food Processing February 2006 Mike Pehanich	Electro-shock therapy Energy management suddenly has taken on grave importance. Read what Tyson, ConAgra, Publix and other processors are doing to reduce consumption and find alternatives.
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T.H.E. Journal April 2007 Neal Starkman	Forging a Bond How the relationship between one school district and its surrounding community has produced a string of winning ed tech ballot initiatives.
T.H.E. Journal November 2008 Dian Schaffhauser	Is VoIP Worth It? School districts have by and large had great results implementing VoIP, which has become the conduit for delivering expanded functionality, achieving greater internal control, and gaining freedom from onerous monthly phone bills.
T.H.E. Journal September 2007 Matt Villano	Data-Driven Decision Making :: The 'Other' Data Most districts know the benefits of tabulating and tracking student performance. But now many are finding there's even more to gain from number crunching by casting out a wider net.
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T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Matt Villano	On Alert Recent events point up the need for school districts to upgrade campus security procedures. But while some have acted by adopting emergency notification systems, many don't seem to have gotten the message.
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Matt Villano	1-to-1 Computing: Teaming Up to Go 1-to-1 Districts are discovering that the secret to implementing a good laptop program is finding a good partner.
T.H.E. Journal December 2002	Case Study: Metropolitan Area Network Helps University City Schools Raise Test Scores The School District of University City, adjacent to St. Louis, Mo., offers an expanding array of classroom applications to its 4,200 students, and 300 staff and faculty members.
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T.H.E. Journal December 2007 Matt Bolch	Custom-Built Curriculum Districts are abandoning textbooks and instead picking and choosing their own instructional materials that more closely align to new academic standards.
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T.H.E. Journal November 2001 Philip J. Bossert	Lessons Learned An inside look at four of the top technology school districts in the nation...
T.H.E. Journal February 2007 John K.Waters	Classroom Collaborators Wireless connectivity is providing a level of flexibility for students and teachers, changing the learning environment in ways that in some cases has to be seen to be believed.
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Newel S. Rice	Conquering NCLB with Technology Washington state's Everett Public Schools tap Cognos Business Intelligence solutions to meet state NCLB reporting requirements.
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Robert Yost	Flexible Network Infrastructure Helps Meet District's Changing Needs IP telephony system improves student safety and staff productivity of northern Virginia district.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Out of Site, Out of Mind Software as a service puts burdensome administrative tasks into the hands of a web-based host.
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T.H.E. Journal April 2008 Christina C. Schaller	Lights...Camera...PD! As the online delivery of technology training expands, weekly live web shows are being used to demonstrate to teachers how to apply the latest tools.
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T.H.E. Journal May 2004 Gregory A. Wyman	Snowflake USD Discovers a Cost-Effective Way to Deliver Technology to All Students Small, rural K-12 school district utilizes server-centric computing to fulfill the promise of technology as a viable resource.
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