COVER STORY: Measuring Up in a Flat World by Karen Greenwood Henke
As the business world wrings its hands over students ill-prepared for being effective in a global workplace, a few forward-thinking organizations are striving to help students acquire the 21st century skills necessary for success.

One-to-One in Texas by Tom McHale
At the Irving Independent School District, providing its students with equal access to technology meant gaining the support of all stakeholders involved: parents, community members, educators, and administrators.

Product Guide
Printers by James Careless
Inkjet or laser? Choosing the wrong printer type for your district's schools can mean money down the drain.

Reviews
Inspiration Software InspireData by Carol S. Holzenberg
T&L takes a look at Inspiration Software's mind-mapping tool InspireData.

PreschoolFirst by Jamie Keller
T&L takes a look at a Web-based tool for assessing preschool students.

What's New
Projectors from Hitachi and InFocus, Califone classroom speakers, OnScreen Science DNA Lite, and more.

Editor's Desk
The Awareness Lag by Susan McLester

News & Trends
Software on demand; the movement to get kids moving; and a critical look at online schools. Plus: a peek at the latest NetDay survey. by T&L Editors

Integration
Read All About It by Harry Grove Tuttle
Having trouble motivating your students to read? Try these tech-infused excercises.

How To
Ready for Your Close Up? by Jeffrey Branzburg
Get your video blog out into the world.

Emerging Tech
Did You Just See That? by Lindsay Oishi
YouTube and other online video sites offer some entertaining and unconventional clips that can spur interest in science and other subjects.

Web Exclusives!

• Bottom Line: Go Team! by Susan Brooks-Young
  Lining up a solid year-round grants team can make or break your efforts to secure grant funding.
• Grants & Contests by Susan Brooks-Young
  Funding, recognition programs, and resources.

MORE@techlearning.com
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  Here are tips and ideas to using a multi-disciplinary approach that will help students learn with digital photography.
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  Here's an introduction to the new tools—flickr, YouTube, RSS, Xbox and more—so you can understand the digital world that so engrosses students today.
• The Classroom of Tomorrow: Here Today by Gregg Festa
  That dream classroom, perfectly integrated with technology and scalable for future innovations, is not such a fantasy. New Jersey already has three.