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<center><h2>Administration Accomplishments in Education and Technology</h2></center>
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The Clinton Administration has made an unprecedented commitment to bringing
technology into the classroom. As a central element of the President's lifelong
learning agenda, the Administration believes that technology can help expand
opportunities for American children to improve their skills, maximize their potential,
and ready them for the 21st century.
<P>
<a href="/WH/New/other/challenge.html#education"><h3>America's Technology
Literacy Challenge</h3></a>
On February 15, 1996, the President called for a five-year, $2 billion
fund that would support grassroots efforts at the state and local level
to put the future at the fingertips of every child by the dawn of the
new century -- with modern computers, high quality educational software,
trained teachers, and connections to the information superhighway.
<P>
<a href="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://www.21ct.org&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html"><h3>21st
Century Teachers</h3></a>
In May of 1996, the nation's leading parent, teacher, and school board
organizations are stepping forward together to meet a vital component of
the President's challenge: Ensuring that all teachers will be trained to
use the new educational technologies. This national volunteer
partnership has made a commitment to the President to work cooperatively
to support teachers and other educators at the local level by
disseminating information on skills teachers will need to facilitate
learning in the 21st century, ensuring professional development
opportunities, developing awards and incentives for using educational
technology, and promoting the development of, and access to, classroom
resources and curricula that use advanced technologies.
<P>
<a href="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://www.ustc.org/CyberEd/index.html&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html"><h3>Ensuring Equality in
Access</h3></a>
On April 17, 1996 the Vice President joined with business leaders and
the Tech Corp to launch CyberEd, the mobile library of the 21st
century. CyberEd will travel to fifteen cities and rural communities
over the next three months to catalyze efforts to connect every school
in all 15 empowerment zones this year. The President's Technology
Literacy Challenge conditions funding on states joining with local
communities and the private sector to determine how they can best assure
that all schools in all districts will have full access to education by
the dawn of the next century.
<P>
<h3>Affordable Computers</h3>
On April 17, 1996 the President signed an Executive Order (we need this
as a link) making it much easier to get computers no longer needed by
the federal government into America's classrooms. Procedures have been
simplified, and private organizations will ensure that the computers are
fully functional and equipped to use modern software.
<P>
<a href="/WH/EOP/OP/telecom/signing.html"><h3>Affordable
Communications</h3></a>
On February 8, 1996 the President signed a bold reform of the nation's
telecommunication laws that will increase competition and lower prices
for all users of communication -- including schools. <a
href="/WH/EOP/OP/telecom/telecom-top.html">The bill includes
a specific requirement for telecommunications companies to provide
classrooms and libraries with discounted access to the information
superhighway.</a>
<P>
<a href="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://www.netday96.com&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html"><h3>Netdays</h3></a>
The Administration is working actively with Congress, the states, local
governments, private industry, public interest groups and the public
groups themselves to achieve this goal. In March, the President and
Vice President worked with more than 20,000 other volunteers to wire
3000 California schools in an "electronic barnraising". Companies
contributed wiring kits, more than six million feet of cable, technical
assistance, free Internet access, and free or discounted hardware and
software. This sparked national interest and 32 states are planning
netdays this fall and another eight are actively organizing.
<P>
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href="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://web.fie.com/htdoc/fed/ito/any/any/menu/any/tlcindex.htm&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html">
<h3>High Quality Content -- The Technology <br> Learning Challenge Grant
Program</h3></a>
The Administration initiated a "Technology Learning Challenge," to
challenge communities to form partnerships of local school systems,
students, colleges, universities and private businesses to develop
creative new ways to use technology for learning. Each grant focuses on
integrating innovative learning technologies into curriculum and
leverages federal dollars to establish local consortia of
communities committed to school reform and technology integration. The
Administration has awarded 19 grants for FY 95.
<P>
<a href="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://www.ustc.org&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html"><h3>Organizing Volunteers with Computer
Expertise</h3></a>
In October 1995 the President announced the business-sponsored US Tech
Corps, which now has chapters in 30 states and the District of
Columbia. This volunteer organization enables high-tech workers from
the private sector to assist teachers and schools in using educational
technology.
<P>
<h3>Honoring Student Volunteers</h3>
In October, 1995 the President helped inaugurate the national Technology
Honorary Society, created by the nation's secondary school principals to
honor students who serve their schools by helping their peers and
teachers use new learning technologies. This group also operates the
National Honor Society.
<P>
<h3>Grants to schools through TIIAPG</h3>
In 1994, the Clinton Administration created the Department of Commerce's
TIIAP (Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance
Program) which makes grants to public institutions to speed up the flow
of information through the application of advanced communications
technology. Through federal support and investment, TIIAP has
accelerated the pace of connecting public institutions and has
stimulated private sector investment. This program has enabled the federal
government to leverage $24.4 million in federal funds to provide a total
of $64.4 million in cutting-edge demonstration projects for public
institutions. The program is so successful that there are 200 times more
applications than there are grants.
<P>
<h3>Other Federal programs in Education Technology ERIC Program</h3>
In order to reach out to the teachers across the country, the Clinton
Administration funds the ERIC service, which stands for the <A
target="_top" HREF="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html">Educational
Resources Information Clearing House Service</A>. Educators are able to send
questions through e-mail to ask ERIC, and receive a response within 48
hours. Educators can ask about lesson plans, educational techniques
information on GOALS2000 and so on. Every week 200 new questions come
in, and the information that ERIC has made available on-line, such as
sample lesson plans and answers to frequently asked questions is
accessed more than 15,000 times a week.
<P>
<h3>Star Schools Program</h3>
The Star School's distance learning projects have helped to improve
instruction in mathematics, science and foreign languages, literacy
skills and vocational education. These distance learning projects serve
under-served populations through partnerships that develop, construct,
acquire, maintain and operate telecommunications audio and visual
facilities and equipment, develop and acquire educational and
instructional programming, and obtain technical assistance for the
use of such facilities and instructional programming. More than one million
students and their teachers in 50 states and territories participate in
this program funded by the Department of Education.
<P>
<A target="_top" HREF="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/StarSchools&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html"><h3>Star Schools Program</h3></A>
The Star School's distance learning projects have helped to
improve instruction in mathematics, science and foreign languages, literacy skills and
vocational education. These distance learning projects serve under-served populations
through partnerships that develop, construct, acquire, maintain and operate
telecommunications audio and visual facilities and equipment, develop and acquire
educational and instructional programming, and obtain technical assistance for the
use of such facilities and instructional programming. More than one million students
and their teachers in 50 states and territories participate in this program funded by the Department
of Education.
<p>
<h3>Connecting Students to the Environment</h3> Vice President Gore initiated the
<A target="_top" HREF="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://www.globe.gov/&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html">Global
Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) </A>Program in 1994.
GLOBE joins students, educators and scientists in an international science and
environmental education network using state-of-the-art technology. GLOBE students
make environmental observations at or near their schools and share their data through
the Internet. More than 2,000 schools in the U.S. are participating in GLOBE in
1995.
<p>
<h3>Assessing School Connectivity</h3> The first national survey of schools access to broad
band telecommunications and the Internet was completed in the Fall of 1994. A
second national survey was conducted in October, 1995 and documents the
progress being made to link schools and classrooms.
<p>
<h3>Improving rural education and health care</h3> The Administration's commitment to
ensuring the wide dissemination of information has worked through the Rural
Utilities Service Distance Learning and Medical Link (DLML) Grant Program, to
improving education and health care for rural residents throughout the Nation. The
program has already given hundreds of students attending rural schools in 28 states
access to previously unavailable courses.
<p>
<A target="_top" HREF="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=gopher://gopher.ed.gov/11/announce/competitions/rtc&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html"><h3>Regional
Technology Consortia Grant Program</h3></A> The Clinton Administration
initiated the Department of Education's Regional Technology Consortia Program
to help state,
local educational agencies, teachers, administrators and others to integrate advanced
technologies into K-12 grade classrooms, library media centers and other educational
settings (including adult literacy centers). The Consortia are establishing and conducting
regional activities that address professional development, technical assistance, and
information resource dissemination to promote the effective use of technology in
education.
<p>
<A target="_top" HREF="/cgi-bin/good-bye.cgi?URL=http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Plan&CURRENT=http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/edtech/html/etech_accomplishments.html"><h3>National Plan for Technology in Education</h3></A>
Education Secretary Riley will submit
a National Plan for Technology in Education to Congress in early 1996. The report is
the effort of hundreds of educators, citizens and industry leaders in seven regional
forums, two national conferences and an on-line discussion over the Internet to address
the important issues in educational technology.
<p>
<h3>Rural telecommunications infrastructure</h3> The Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
administers grants and loan programs to assist rural and remote communities with the
development of their communications infrastructure, including schools. Addition
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