National Education Technology Plan - Helping states and districts prepare today's students for the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow, U.S. Department of Education.

Reports from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills

• June 2003 - Learning for the 21st Century: A Report and MILE Guide for 21st Century Skills.
  
  
• June 2004 - The Road to 21st Century Learning: A Policymakers’ Guide to 21st Century Skills.
  
  
• March 2006 - Results that Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform - 21st century skills integrated with core academic subjects — should be the “design specs” for creating high schools that are truly effective for students and the nation.
  
  
• October 2006 - Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers’ Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge And Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century Workforce, produced in collaboration with The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, and Society for Human Resource Management (Full Report).
  
  
• August 2007 – Updated Framework For 21st Century Learning - What are the skills, knowledge and expertise today’s students must master to compete globally and become successful 21st Century citizens? What are the critical support systems schools need to produce 21st century teaching and learning outcomes? Partnership for 21st Century Skills (Press Release).

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April 2006 - Our Voices, Our Future: Student and Teacher Views on Science, Technology & Education, Project Tomorrow.

December 2005 - Tech-savvy students stuck in text-dominated schools, Education Evolving.

September 2005 - Are We Really a Nation Online? Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Access to Technology and Their Consequences, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

September 2004 - Issue Brief: Children,The Digital Divide, And Federal Policy, The Kaiser Foundation.

May 2004 - Technology Counts 2004, Global Links: Lessons from the World, Education Week (free login required). 

August 2003 - 2003 Rural Minnesota Internet Study, Center for Rural Policy and Development.  Tracking the rise of broadband use in Greater Minnesota households

July 2003 - Ethical gaps in studies of the digital divide - Balanced studies which note both positive and negative patterns of digital divide gaps appears to be less publicized than reports which ground their interpretations of data in various ideological biases. 
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April 2002 - 2000-2001 Information Technology Indicators for a Healthy Community Report, City of Seattle.  Provides a model for describing the state of information technology as it impacts the social, economic and cultural health of a city.  

2002 Minnesota School Library Media Center Census
Use the census results:

• To assess where your school's school library media programs stand in relation to the Standards.
• To help you explain how the roles media specialists play and the services they provide impact student success.
• To assist school districts and individual school library media programs to develop plans to improve their programs reflecting best practices.

2001 - e-Government: The Next American Revolution
The Blueprint for e-Government sets forth the vision, principles, and actions necessary for a breakthrough seen as comparable in impact to the invention of the printing press.  It aims to make government at all levels far more accountable to the will and needs of the people and greatly boost the speed, variety, and quality of transactions between them.  The big idea here is e-the-people.