by Kim Carter, Librarian, Souhegan High School, Amherst, NH Computers search information databases by looking for the exact string of characters entered by the user. In other words, if the user asks the computer to look for “coaching soccer,” the computer scans for entries where those two words appear exactly as typed. Therefore, searching for “rainforest” would yield different results
At Monadnock Community Connections School (MC2), mid-year Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) scores were in. 44 students, five teachers, two tutors, and two parents had accepted the community-wide invitation to join a discussion about the results. To clusters of six to seven students and an adult facilitator, I displayed the first chart of scores, showing that 23% improved, 40% stayed