WRC Media Company, Compass Learning s parent company, is the largest supplemental education provider in the world today. Compass Learning and SIIA thank Chairman Goodling, Ranking Member Clay and the Committee for its strong support of education and educational technology. Federal leadership has been critical to local and state efforts to bring the benefits of instructional technology to all students, especially those in the most disadvantaged communities. In the education arena, we have only begun to harness the power of technology. Technology is an effective tool for an image-based generation.
Professional development is essential to the success of an instructional technology implementation.
Technology, by definition, means different things to different people and is highly influenced by experience and perspective. How many of us still use microwaves to heat coffee and VCRs to play videocassettes when there is so much more potential to be tapped. And, so it is with education. The reality and the potential of technology are accelerating a revolution around the globe and in our schools. Revolution is often regarded as negative, but this is truly a positive revolution.