ABSTRACT
A 1993 Ralph Bunche graduate, Renso Vasquez Jr. is now helping his junior high — a grant-backed partner of PS 125 — to utilize the kind of new technologies he learned about in grammar school. For several years, through a series of grants, PS 125 has participated in projects that expose its students to learning vehicles rarely found at such urban public schools or even at many better-financed institutions for that matter. Only a comparatively few school systems — notably in California and Texas — are moving aggressively toward utilization of self-contained multimedia units or, as in North Carolina, Florida and Utah, toward various forms of video/computer networking. PS 125 is part of the National School Network Testbed, which includes initiatives at the national, school-district and intraschool levels. In addition to Internet privileges, the Testbed provides specific forums in areas such as science, math and teacher development.
