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The Armenia School Connectivity Program (ASCP) is a program which provides training, resources and internet access for schools in Armenia. It is implemented by Project Harmony and funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs through the 1992 Freedom Support Act. The program allows the students, educators and community members of Armenia to access and share information. It is meant to increase the U.S-Armenian partnership at the schools and within the community, increase interaction between schools and the community, and civic engagement on the local, national and international levels. The Armenian School Connectivity Program supports the integration of educational technologies that is supposed to strengthen democracy and support civil society and cultural understanding.〔http://ascp.ph-int.org〕 ==Recruitment process== The schools recruited to the ASCP went through a competition completed on October 15, 2004. During the site set-up of the ASCP, local schools were affected by the rearrangements initiated within the framework of Armenia Education Quality and Relevance Project. The school building maintenance funds increased, becoming higher than the staff/student number involved in the ASCP network; this resulted in some ASCP schools to merge into one another, decreasing the number of schools involved in the network. A program assessment had a few more schools removed from the network for not having an adequate level of participation in the program. In the end, 330 schools were selected from all over Armenia to be a part of the Program network.〔http://ascp.ph-int.org/en/recruitment.php〕 The recruitment process for the ASCEP was held under the Program Promotion and Enrollment Competition. Project Harmony announced the launching of the recruitment along with a program introductory highlighting the principals and specifics about the recruitment requirements and process that were distributed to all schools within the region. There was a Q&A session that applicants received; afterwards, possible applicants were given a follow-up consultation meeting with Project Harmony in all of the 11 regions.〔http://ascp.ph-int.org/en/recruitment.php〕 The selected schools that were part of the ASCP program were chosen based on the following criteria implemented by Project Harmony: * The principal of the school had to support the program and be willing to share the Internet Computer Center classroom with the community and other schools * The school’s academic background had to meet certain quantitative and qualitative measures * There had to be a high motivation within the school for academics and administrative staff to use the classroom effectively * The community was involved in the school activities * The school participated in any U.S. government programs * The school participated in any improvement programs organized by either NGOs, the ministry of education, and other related organizations. * The school's geographic location 〔http://ascp.ph-int.org/en/recruitment.php〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armenia School Connectivity Program」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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