With the results of a forthcoming federal study of educational software still under wraps, questions are arising about how it has been conducted--particularly the government's decision not to disclose individual performance results for the 15 computerized curriculum packages being studied. The companies involved will receive results for their own…

Describes a modest afterschool rites-of-passage program for District of Columbia ninth graders that provides doses of African culture, practical skills, adult guidance, and community service opportunities. The program is reinforced by a cross-cultural junior high curriculum drawing from traditional African wisdom and modern pragmatism. (MLH)

Maine is the first state to deliver "anytime, anywhere learning" to schools by providing laptop computers to every 7th and 8th grader in public schools statewide. It's an unprecedented attempt by a state to be a catalyst for school technology. The brainchild of then-Governor Angus King, the Independent who herded it through the…