As such technologies proliferate across state lines, it should be relatively easy to map other state reports. And because the core database in our program is built around the nces Common Core Data Elements, mandated federal reporting can be as easy to complete for districts as the Connecticut report is now for our districts. The gains in administrative efficiency and time management, we believe, will be significant. High technology is all around us. In school leadership, the profound changes that have taken place over the past decade require us to respond more effectively and more quickly to accountability and improvement issues.
New demands require new tools.
Just as information technologies have proved their worth in the private sector, so, too, will affordable technological tools prove their value to public school leaders. Philip A. Streifer is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. 1999 Editorial Projects in Education Vol.