Cable in the Classroom has announced the first recipients of $65,000 grants for its broadband education demonstration projects initiative.

The first of three proposals selected is Comcast's plan to support teacher development through online university courses and in-person training by leading educators in its cable system areas.

Time Warner Cable Albany, C-SPAN and Project View, a federally funded interactive education initiative, are receiving funding to create ?dynamic models for teaching history and civics.? The initiative marks ?a true evolution for how schools, cable systems and networks can work together,? says C-SPAN education manager Meg Steele.

Court TV will create broadband resources to address teaching standards for high school physical science and social studies curricula by partnering with Comcast's Tallahassee, Fla., system and Time Warner Cable's Dayton, Ohio, system. ?This partnership?is a perfect mix of private enterprise and the educational system working together to bring enrichment and support to the classroom,? says Rick Seamon, GM of Comcast Tallahassee.

?These projects are going to give the whole industry very real measurable results and research as a replicable model for what great education and cable partnerships can look like,? says CIC executive director Peggy O'Brien.

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