Special Offers E-mail us . Submit problems, questions, or comments to Web Manager . We want to hear from you. The CEO Forum, whose membership consists of large education technology firms including hardware vendors and several national education groups such as the National School Boards Association, released a policy paper in March that probably represents some of the most cogent policy recommendations thus far from any group promoting appropriate use of technology in education. The Bush proposal would focus on narrowly defined academic skills assessed by state tests most likely norm-referenced tests.
Education technology can help reinvent assessments.
And it specifically calls for at least 30 percent of all Federal education technology funding to be earmarked for professional development by the year 2003. This stated rationale for a clearinghouse is different from the rationale of state clearinghouses such as the California Software Evaluation Clearinghouse, which are likely to rate software titles according to various criteria. Click here for more information on the policy paper or other CEO forum reports. The Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics has released its early estimates of K-12 statistics on enrollments, expenditures, etc. Among the lowest number of students per teacher are large states including New Jersey and Massachusetts, as well as small states such as Vermont and Wyoming.