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Federal Act Boosts Student Standards Aimed at Technology - Andrew Trotter, Education Week

After years of quiet activity, a movement to tune schools to the technology-driven "literacies" of contemporary life is getting its volume pumped by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. State education departments are paying new heed to what some call 21st- century or contemporary literacies because of a goal in the federal education law of ensuring that every 8th grader is proficient in the use of technology by 2005. "Culminating with NCLB, there's a new type of literacy," said John P. Bailey, the director of educational technology for the U.S. Department of Education. "It's taking the right kind of technological tools [and] applying it to different tasks in problems that students face inside the classroom, and that we face in work as well. It's not just [computer] programming."

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