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Are your schools wired enough?
September 30, 1998
Web posted at 3:25 PM EDT
by Industry Standard staff
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(IDG) -- At this time next month, students and teachers in Boston will celebrate their status as the first major U.S. city to network all of its public schools. But is this enough? For most schools, "connected" means only that the library has a computer and a modem: Only one-third of connected schools have access in the classroom.
"You can count on large, rich schools being more connected than small, poor schools," says Jeanne Hayes, president of education research firm Quality Education Data.
Although tech expenditures have more than doubled since school year 1991-1992, more funding is needed to make the Internet an integral part of education at all schools. The future of the largest federal program, E-rate, is uncertain. Its $1.9 billion has not been spent and a House joint committee meeting two weeks ago debated not only the FCC's administration of the fund but also the legality of its future.
"Our priority now is to be sure this technology is being used to teach students and prepare them for the New Economy," says Bill McCarthy, press secretary for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. "But we also don't want to see technology take away from the fundamentals of education."
PROPORTION OF U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH INTERNET LINKS
K-12 SPENDING ON TECHNOLOGY IS UP
HANDS-ON INTERNET TIME IS INCREASING
WINTEL MACHINES WILL BE THE MAJORITY BY 2001
PARENTS MORE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT PCs THAN THE NET
E-RATE IS LARGEST POTENTIAL SOURCE OF FEDERAL FUNDING
