As a educator of science teachers I am presently trying to help teachers learn how to use the internet. The biggest problem out here on Cape Cod is inexpensive access and fear that as soon as a school get all wired up it will have to change again.
Some schools have one computer hooked up for the entire school.
Others may have a lab for high school but that is all. Teachers have little time during the class day to find time to use scarce computers hooked up. Whatever happens it should not cost a lot to get in high speed ISDN and T lines in rural areas or areas like Cape Cod that have high phone bills already because the towns are surrounded by water that is counted as land area by the telephone companies. If there is to be easy internet access in schools the US Government could go a long way by making it as inexpensive as possible. They might compensate the telephone companies by rewarding break throughs and research in making the internet inexpensive and easily available.