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Report: America's $40+ Billion Investment in K-12 Education Technology Potentially At Risk - Benton Foundation

The Benton Foundation and the Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology (CCT) released their latest report, The Sustainability Challenge: Taking Edtech to the Next Level, over the Internet today. In the last 10 years, the United States has invested over $40 billion placing computers in schools and connecting classrooms to the Internet; the report cautions that this massive investment in educational technology, or edtech, may be at risk. The Sustainability Challenge outlines a number of critical next steps that are needed to sustain America's edtech infrastructure and insure that this investment helps support student achievement. The report offers a "Sustainability Top Ten List" of reforms necessary for insuring that the nation's edtech investments do not go to waste. http://www.benton.org/Library/sustainability/sus_challenge.pdf (PDF format)

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