Partnerships between Mendocino, Calif. schools and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and between Baltimore's Abell Foundation and the Maryland State Department of Education are models for the kind of collaborative relationships that will be needed to make the vision a reality. Bibliography -Numerous sources on the history and current state of technology in schools. Important Education Web Sites -The best in networking theory and practice on the World Wide Web. Linking schools to the emerging telecommunications network has become one of the hottest education topics of the 1990s. Politicians proclaim their commitment to it.
Businesses tout their contributions toward achieving it.
And schools are spending substantial sums to accomplish it. There's a clear logic to these goals. Advanced communications technologies are increasingly shaping how we work, play, and relate to one another. Some 37 percent of U.S. households have computers, and although the number connected to networks remains relatively small, it is growing exponentially. Indeed, the importance of computer networks is likely to grow enormously in the years ahead, as they become the means for delivering not just text and data, but video, audio and graphical information as well.