Federal Government Bolsters Support for Educational Technology
It may lack the fiscal health of America's giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.
While companies donate thousands of computers to schools each year, seed money from the Education Department (ED) and other federal agencies are building an infrastructure which will integrate technology with traditional curricula. Such funding has increased steadily during the Clinton administration, which made technology a priority in many new programs such as Goals 2000 and school-to-work …