Covering the business of education and training

IBM hopes to give teachers new tools to do a better job.

Big Blue has donated $442 million to education (K-12) in the past decade.

One program is called Reinventing Education.

IBM has worked for years, flying in teachers to its research center in Yorktown Heights, NY for training.

IBM also has a 'learning village' Web site where teachers work together and collaborate. Now THAT's a novel idea.

If teachers had learned that lesson a long long time ago....

To date, more than 90,000 teachers around the US and 10 countries have gone through IBM's traininig.

In one district in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, IBM trained teachers saw their students best other urban districts in the national fourth-grade assessment tests.

IBM is making a difference, one teacher at a time.

Now if other big companies would do their part...even one teacher at a time, perhaps an even greater change could be affected.

What do you think?