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