Where does a teacher turn to find a more effective way to teach? How does an eight-year-old girl from the inner city discover a better way to learn? What classroom tool is already beginning to stretch the imaginations of pupil and teacher alike...and helping administrators do more with less?

For us at NYNEX, the answer to these questions is as close as the nearest computer and phone line. Computers and communications used creatively in the classroom are breathing new life into our neighborhood schools, solving problems for administrators, opening the door to a new world of information and resources for teachers, and lighting up the minds of students of all ages. How can you help us?

If your projects will bring about systemic changes in the way students learn and teachers teach, we'd like to hear from you. If you are creating programs that employ technology in the classroom to develop curriculum, broaden the scope and power of both teacher and student with the help of distance learning and interactive computing, we'd like to hear from you. If you train teachers, students and parents to use new technologies, or help teachers develop new curricular, particularly in math and science, we'd like to hear from you. If you provide college and job opportunities for minorities, the poverty-stricken, the disabled and non-traditional students--such as mothers returning to finish their education--we'd like to hear from you.

For example: This year 44 teachers from 11 high schools between Boston and Cape Cod are going to be "hitting" the books with the help of NYNEX. Actually, they won't be opening books; they'll be turning on their computers.

As part of the South Shore Educational Collaborative in southeastern Massachusetts, these 44 teachers are being trained to use personal computers to tap into the vast storehouses of knowledge and information available through communications networks like the Internet.

These newly inducted "cybernauts" will then take what they've learned back to their schools, where they'll show more teachers how to use these powerful instructive and learning tools. Our hope? More students will spend a lot more time "surfing the Net" than they do the South Shore beaches.

What does a group of 4th to 8th graders from about 50 schools in New York City and Boston have in common with young children in faraway places like India, Brazil and Germany? A lot more than natural curiosity. With the help of NYNEX, they're linked together on KIDSNET, National Geographic's interactive science curriculum.

Students in Boston and New York are working with other students around the world to study global issues like acid rain, trash management, water quality and nutrition. With the help of communications and computers, these students gather and analyze data, share results and develop a better understanding of their world and each other. NYNEX helped pilot the program in 45 schools in the Northeast. This is another innovative way students are using technology to broaden their horizons and make some new friends.