How widespread is the use of information technology in K-12 education?
Since 1997, Education Week has published an annual 50-state report on how U.S. middle and high schools are utilizing technology. The free online report is titled Technology Counts, and provides extensive summary information as well as state-by-state data about the level of access to technology, capacity to use technology, and actual use of technology. Within these broad categories, the report tracks such information as the number of students per computer, location of computers, level of Internet connectivity, amount of technology training that teachers receive, the presence of a technology plan or technology standards, the percent of teachers using computers for planning, the percent of students using computers for learning, and specifics regarding how computers are being used by academic subject. As would be expected, the report evolves somewhat each year to address evolving trends. For example, the 2002 report was the first to assess the prevalence of distance learning in schools (it
