Urged by both the President and Vice President, federal officials have been exploring how to encourage greater and more effective use of modern telecommunications and computer technologies in the nation's schools. In July 1994, RAND's Critical Technologies Institute (CTI) completed a broad investigation of educational technology for the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science and Technology Council. This preliminary work examined the nature and level of federal efforts to assist educators and trainers and an assessment of major barriers to further progress.
On the basis of this preliminary investigation, the U.S. Department of Education asked CTI to assist the department as it responded to new provisions in the 1994 GOALS 2000: Educate America Act, provisions calling on the Secretary of Education to provide a plan for effective utilization of new technologies in the nation's classrooms. Initially sought by March 1995, the deadline for the plan was postponed by subsequent legislation until September of the same year.
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