One of the hot-button topics in education right now is the need for a better adaptation to technology: students need greater exposure to the tools they will use in the workplace, teachers need a more streamlined way to unburden themselves from piles of student work, and the system as a whole is looking to technology to decrease costs while still improving student outcomes.

He was an original character, people say of Sam Goss. Goss died Wednesday, April 25. He fell ill on his tractor, cutting his field of hay. Goss died later that day.

PIEDMONT — On Monday, Apple Computer recognized Piedmont High School as a 2010-11 Apple Distinguished School, one of 56 in the nation and the only such honor for an Alabama public school.

PIEDMONT — The halls of Piedmont schools were shoulder-to-shoulder last Tuesday morning with more than 120 educators, administrators and technology coordinators from across the state, eager to get a closer look at the district’s one-to-one laptop computer initiative.