RE: Question 1: Technology-What's in the Plan

This concept--that teachers will "integrate" technology into the curriculum if only they are provided with adequate hardware and software--is fine as far as it goes. I have built the network infrastructure at an 1100 student school with hundreds of laptops and labs and multiple servers doing advance corporate style networking. Teachers who have adequate training and access to just-in-time tutoring are beginning to incorporate the technology. The majority are not.

What is missing is a parallel R&D; project developing integrated curriculum resources and alternative "school" models. How can teachers who are already overworked actually develop the competency to "innovate" in stat-of-the-art terms and use those innovations in the classroom? What you get is "folk art" vs Rembrandt.

Billions are spent on buying textbooks each year in California; can't we allocate some of that to competing R&D; curriculum development projects?

Phil