The answer may be technology. While the cost of traditional teaching aids like textbooks continues to increase, advanced technology is becoming more affordable. Personal computers are giving students powerful and exciting new ways to learn, and the incredible growth of the Internet is making access to information easier and more widespread than ever before. In Napa, Calif., New Technology High School is attempting to use the computerized classroom to its fullest potential. In operation since last September, New Technology High has at least one computer in every classroom.
All students have e-mail.
The school's numerous partnerships with high-tech businesses have provided its cutting edge technology. Therefore we need staff to tie reality to subjects. All of this needs staff development to train teachers on teaching differently, using more information and technology and teaching students how to learn and select important information. Still, state governments are the main source of public school funding. And they will have the most to say about how much aid individual districts receive.