Kentucky Launches Statewide High-Speed P-20 Education Network to Support Lifelong Learning.

October 31, 2007

Kentucky students now are on the leading edge of technology and education thanks to the newly created Kentucky Education Network (KEN). Public schools across the state now are connected to KEN, which continues Kentucky's tradition as a leader in maintaining a high-speed link between education and the World Wide Web.

Education Cabinet Secretary Laura E. Owens, along with other state education leaders, yesterday unveiled the capabilities of KEN and the opportunities it will provide to create a seamless P-20 education community that supports lifelong learning.

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/160527

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Classroom of the Future Is Virtually Anywhere

By JOSEPH BERGER

The university classroom of the future is in Janet Duck’s dining room on East Chocolate Avenue here.

There is no blackboard and no lectern, and, most glaringly, no students. Dr. Duck teaches her classes in Pennsylvania State University’s master’s program in business administration by sitting for several hours each day in jeans and shag-lined slippers at her dining table, which in soccer mom fashion is cluttered with crayon sketches by her 6-year-old Elijah and shoulder pads for her 9-year-old Olivia’s Halloween costume.

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/education/31education.html?_r=1&oref=slogin