A challenger in the tablet wars has come up short. Microsoft’s Surface has failed to deliver on the firm’s conservative sales goal during the device’s first three months on the market.
The Surface registered nearly 750,000 units sold in its first quarter of availability, below the target of just over 1 million, according to iSuppli via CNet. In addition, a number of Surfaces have reportedly been returned by consumers.
To put the sales figures in perspective, during the most recent quarter, Apple sold over 22 million iPads.
Consumers may be wondering whether the device is headed the way of the Zune, a digital music player that's no longer produced.
For many years there have been debates in K-12 education in the US concerning incentives or rewarding students for grades, attendance, behavior, test scores, etc. I remember at one time that educators frowned on the idea of rewarding students, especially older pupils for showing improvement. The belief was that students should want to improve their grades, attendance etc. for its own self reward. That students would be more interested in the "prizes" than the actual improvement that they...
As all school administrators must know, there is a very real teacher shortage currently in American schools and the projections are that it will only be getting worse. What is causing this shortage? It is estimated that 50% of new teachers will leave the profession in their first five years of teaching. Some of the reasons for this high turnovers are: lack of district and state funding for positions, student enrollment is climbing, the pandemic has caused many teachers to leave their jobs,...
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