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"From Pillars to Progress: Integrating Education and Technology," The CEO Forum on Education and Technology's STaR Report.
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Dates of Study:
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1997
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Basis of Study:
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Quality Education Datašs annual survey of 80,000 public schools.
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Focus of Study:
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Yearly STaR (School Technology and Readiness) reports will:
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Document the nation's progress in building these Clintonšs Four Pillars (The true benefits of technology in education can only be attained when all of Clinton's Four Pillars of education and technology, Hardware, Connectivity, Content, Professional Development, are present and integrated into America's classroom).
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Draw general conclusion on whether integrating technology into the classroom is a means of meeting critical educational objectives.
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Conclusions:
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This first yearly report details the state of technology in our schools and the need to fulfill the second two pillars, content and professional development.
As more and more anecdotal evidence is collected from leading-edge schools, the link between technology use in the classroom and student academic proficiency is becoming increasingly clear. Example provided: A case study of a school district in Georgia with high drop out and academic failure rates documents dropout rates falling from 24% to 3% after a large effort partnered with business to network the district classrooms.
Individual efforts in schools across the country correlate the use of classroom technology and meeting specific education objectives and to identify the resulting real-world benefits.
Now there is a pressing need to develop new measurement tools capable of more fully describing the effect of technology on learning.
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