This page has been made available for your convenience, but the content of this site will no longer be updated after May 20, 2001. Visit the new site for new information. American schools must, therefore, provide students with the opportunity to combine the best of traditional learning with the unprecedented opportunities technology offers. The nation is challenged to assure that all students are technologically literate and equipped with the communication, math, science, reading, social studies, visual and performing arts, foreign language and critical thinking skills essential for enhancing learning and improving productivity and performance.
Technology plays a central role in education improvement.
To be able to prosper in a global economy and to be competitive in the 21st century, our students must have the skills and knowledge to access and evaluate information successfully from anywhere in the world at anytime. One issue readily accepted today is the need to integrate technology in the learning process. In a society permeated by rapidly changing and growing technology, we also have an obligation to promote lifelong learning and to provide our students with the resources that such an environment requires. High school graduates are no longer expected just to memorize facts. They need to know how to locate and use information effectively and efficiently in order to solve complex problems.