Spellings Seeks Input on Technology’s Role in Schools
Roundtables may lead to broader effort to chart future federal course.
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has put up her antennae for the best ideas on how technology can improve education, with the launch of a series of roundtables she is holding with education “stakeholders.”
Katherine McLane, a spokeswoman for the secretary, compared the meetings to Ms. Spellings’ outreach before she created the Commission on the Future of Higher Education in 2005. That federal panel released long-range recommendations for the nation’s colleges and universities last August.
“The goal is at this point to inspire a conversation about integrating technology more efficiently into education, and exploring how we can utilize the technology we have to raise student achievement,” Ms....
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