The Norman Transcript--University of Oklahoma receives $4million grant

The Norman Transcript--University of Oklahoma receives $4million grant: "The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University of Oklahoma's K20 Center a $4.24 million grant over three years for eighth- and ninth-grade technology-based math and literacy programs.

The K20 Center will work with students and teachers from the Shawnee and Putnam City school districts during the initial stage. In the second and third years of the grant, the program will be replicated in schools across Oklahoma.

'The grant funding will be used to implement innovative math and literacy programs in Oklahoma schools using advanced computer gaming and simulations, student and teacher hand-held computers, and the 'lesson study' process credited with Japan's high achievement in math and science,' said Mary John O'Hair, director of the K20 Center and Professor of Educational Leadership."