Intel, Microsoft To Launch Major Training Program For Teachers

By Andrew Trotter

Some 400,000 teachers worldwide will be trained to apply computers and Windows-based software to classroom lessons, under a three-year philanthropic initiative led by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., both companies announced last week.

"There clearly is a huge need, now that teachers are getting increasing access to hardware and software through activities by their states and school districts," said Wendy Hawkins, Intel's manager of teacher-development initiatives.

The combined donations of software products and cash make it the largest effort by private industry to date to encourage and improve the use of technology...