Published: March 29, 2007

Technology Counts , Times 10

When Education Week began tracking educational technology across the states for Technology Counts 1997 , the newspaper’s editors likened the process to mapping a quickly shifting “landscape replete with unexplored and uncharted territory.”

At the time, a paucity of state-by-state data on school technology made providing reliable information and indicators a formidable undertaking.

Nonetheless, that inaugural Technology Counts settled on indicators in a number of key areas that have remained at the core of the report in the succeeding years, including the availability of computers for students, access to the Internet for schools, and...