The Last Silver Bullet?
Technology for America's Schools
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2006
293 pages
978-1-60752-561-5 (ISBN)
Description
Originally this book was meant only to recommend a way to pay for placing modern technology into all of our country's public schools. As we began to formulate that financing plan, however, we realized the task was not as straightforward as we had thought. We were struck by the vehement opposition to our basic premise-the importance of using technology in education-voiced by most relevant constituencies: educators, taxpayers, and especially many businesses.
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Content
- Cover
- THE LAST SILVER BULLET?:Technology for America's Public Schools
- Copyright Page
- contents
- list of tables and figures
- foreword
- preface
- acknowledgments
- 1: technology for America's schools
- Are Test Scores on an Upswing?
- Does Education for All Mean Success for Some?
- It's Not That We Haven't Tried Buying Better Schools
- It's Only School. Do We Ask Too Much?
- Has Anything Worked So Far?
- What Will Turn Our Schools Around?
- First-What Do We Mean by Information Technology?
- It's Just Another Tool
- The Real Benefits of Information Technology
- Teachers as Learning Partners
- Students as Active Participants
- How Can Technology Help the Very Young Child?
- Parents as Learning Partners
- Benefits to Our National Economy
- 2: can a few PCs make socialism work?
- Research Findings
- CONCLUSION
- A LESSON FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR
- LESSONS FROM THE PAST: THE TELEVISION EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION
- A Brief History of Educational Television
- Hagerstown
- What Went Wrong?
- Implementation
- Hardware
- Software
- Additional Problems
- 3: economic benefits of education technology
- Benefits of a More Educated Population
- Benefit/Cost Model
- GI JOE AND THE POST-WORLD WAR II ECONOMY
- Historical Perspective
- The First GI Bill
- Resistance
- Benefits to Society
- Education
- 4: the cost of education technology
- How Much Has Been Spent?
- Possible Cost Savings
- Allocation and Implementation Issues for Limited Funding
- 5: the imperative of teacher training
- Pre-service Training
- Curriculum Guidelines for Accreditation of Educational Computing and Technology Programs
- In-service Training
- PHANTOM LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- How Will Teachers Be Trained?
- 6: can the private sector solve the problem?
- Corporate Responsibility Through Collective Partnerships
- The Private Sector and School Reform
- The Appropriate Role of Business
- How Is Business Working with the Schools?
- Donating Employee Time
- NetDay
- TECH CORPS
- Telecommunication Discounts
- Donated Equipment
- Part-time and Summer Jobs
- Model Schools
- Providing Information and Lobbying
- Taking a New Perspective
- Problems with Business Partnerships
- Key Characteristics of a Successful Collaboration
- Can the Government Stimulate Business Involvement?
- CONCLUSION
- 7: can the federal government take on this task?
- Brief History of Federal Involvement in K-12 Education
- The Federal Role in Education Technology
- Federal Programs Providing Education Technology Funding
- Equity
- Education Related to Defense and to Vocations
- Research
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 A BACKGROUND AND CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
- February 1996
- March 1996
- April 1996
- June 1996
- November 8, 1996
- The Joint Board's recommendations provide for:
- May 7, 1997
- What happens next?
- Where Are We Now?
- How Helpful Will the Telecommunications Act Be for the Schools?
- Can the Federal Government Do More?
- One Possible Tax Plan
- Possible Problems with the Excise Tax
- THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
- The Highway Lobby
- Highway Trust Fund
- 8: state funding for technology
- State Budget Appropriations
- Taxes
- CALIFORNIA EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
- Bonds
- DEBT FINANCING IN ARIZONA
- Leasing
- Industry Taxes and Surcharges
- Trade-off for Permissions
- Lottery Funds
- Other Options
- 9: allocation and implementation issues
- State or Local Control of School Technology Spending?
- 1. Efficiency
- 2. Expertise
- 3. Political Philosophy
- 4. Legal/Constitutional Issues
- The Compromise
- What If There Is Not Enough Money?
- Factors Affecting Allocation Decisions
- Equity or Merit?
- Allocation by Socioeconomic Status
- Allocation to Selected Districts or Schools
- One Grade at a Time
- Allocation by Subject Matter
- Summary of Allocation Issues
- Implementation Issues
- 10: conclusion
- Top 10 Reasons Not to Put Technology into the Schools, but...
- WHEN VOICES FOR EDUCATION WERE HEARD: SPECIAL EDUCATION
- A Brief History of Special Education
- Reasons for Growth and Change
- Funding for Special Education
- The Power of Parents
- Lessons for Educational Technology
- appendix
- The Model to Estimate Gains in Labor Market Productivity
- Distribution of Educational Attainment by Age
- Educational Attainment of Current 0-Year-Olds from 16 to 65
- Expected Maximum Educational Attainment (by Age 31) of Current Population (000) Age 0-14
- Estimated Average Annual Labor Income (96 $) by Age and Educational Attainment for People Currently 0-14 years old
- continued
- Average Annual Labor Income Premium (96 $) from Schooling Using Technology by Age and Educational Attainment
- Net Present Value of Lifetime Earnings Premium from Computer Use for the 1996 Population Aged 0-14 by Maximum Level of Educational Attainment (96 $000)
- bibliography
- endnotes
- CHAPTER 1
- CHAPTER 2
- CHAPTER 3
- CHAPTER 4
- CHAPTER 5
- CHAPTER 6
- CHAPTER 7
- CHAPTER 8
- CHAPTER 9
- CHAPTER 10
- APPENDIX
- about the authors
- LEWIS C. SOLMON
- KALYANI R. CHIRRA
