Community Support
Before there can be community recognition of the educational value of GIS, there must be community recognition of the universal practical value of GIS. GISis notyet ahouseholdword and it is often confused with GPS. At best, most people think of G1S as “map stuff”, a way of producing maps. A major task for proponents of G1S in K-12 education, then, is to find a way to raise awareness of the analytic power and utility of this technology among the general public. One way to raise awareness of the power of GIS is for schools to undertake community service projects. The following examples illustrate how students working with GIS made a difference in their communities.
Archive for April 2011
Community Health
Tenet, which rejected an unsolicited bid in November from Community Health, seeks to force the company to disclose how it admits patients to hospitals for financial rather than clinical purposes, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. Tenet filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Dallas.