The Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) project is a flexible consortium of researchers, educators, students, and parents who have worked collaboratively to create and study innovative learning environments since 1985. ACOT classrooms are true multimedia environments where students move from competitive work patterns toward collaborative ones. (10…

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's Only the Best Web is addressing the information overload problem via an interactive knowledge website providing access to many ASCD electronic products and services, highly rated software, and other multimedia resources. Ultimately, schools will create their own websites and have access…

Describes the Minority Student Achievement Network, a consortium of 15 school districts with significant achievement gaps between white students and their African-American and Latino counterparts. Network includes school districts from Massachusetts, Michigan, Virginia, California, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and New…

A group of school districts in Western Oregon has developed a goal-based improvement model that provides teachers and administrators with a common information base. (Author)

Southeastern New Hampshire schoolchildren are involved in three network science projects for grades 2-8: Batnet, Birdnet, and Treenet. The listserv projects were developed by a group of teachers interested in using the computer-Internet connection to enrich and extend the science learning. Network science makes topics more real, lends immediacy to…

A consortium comprised of a technologically advanced suburban high school, a struggling urban high school, and a resourceful private college has helped the two high schools publish an online magazine, develop interdisciplinary projects, and prepare submissions to an online chemistry magazine. Linking high- and low-achieving schools benefitted all…