Please note a link you may wish to add to the "Participants' Contributions" section of the US/ND pages. I would suggest listing under this hotlink/header:
Findings of Tennessee K12 Planning Task Force (NTIA grant)
If you want a short narrative description of the link, I would suggest:
In 1995 the State of Tennessee, supported in part by the NTIA Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP), began a planning process for the Tennessee Information Infrastructure (TNII). One of the Task Forces formed as part of this effort was focused on the needs of the K12 community. Their Task Force report, completed in November 1995, describes the needs of K12 and the benefits of networking from an applications perspective; not a technology perspective, and identifies common barriers to implementation as well. While some elements of the Report are now dated, it seems reasonable to conclude that the basic descriptions of K12 applications and benefits are little changed from a year ago. The Final Recommendations report of the 23 member K12 Task Force can be found at this URL:http://www.state.tn.us/finance/oir/tnii/narative.html
--Jack McFadden