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Article: Administrators use OMR to gain access to data. (Montgomery Public School System in Alabama uses optical mark readers from Scantron Corp. to enter data onto its NCR 9832 mainframe computer) (Applications)
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- T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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Few would argue that computerization streamlines a vast number of district-and building-level applications. But to be truly effective, a system must be completely accessible to everyone who needs it, when they need it. For the Montgomery Public School System (MPSS) in Montgomery, Ala., a distributed processing environment has proved to be the ideal answer.
"When I came to the district in 1988," Buddy Parker, director of computer services for the MPSS, "student records were being kept manually in all of our schools except two high schools that were running pilot programs. However, both of these pilots were expensive and neither provided for a centralized ...