Tracking U.S. Trends

By Carole Vinograd Bausell and Elizabeth Klemick

For the past decade, Education Week ’s report on the state of technology in K-12 education has tracked policies and practices in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Technology Counts 2007 continues that tradition by offering a look at where states now stand with an eye to where they have come over the past 10 years.

Continuing a feature introduced last year, the report issues letter grades to the states on leadership in three core policy areas: access, use, and capacity.

Leading the nation this year is Georgia, which receives a score of 96 and earns the only A. South Dakota and Virginia also receive high...