ARRA Report Shows State Efforts to Aid Students

SETDA releases a major report on innovation spending using ARRA funds. The SETDA report, “ARRA Investments in Technology, Innovation, and K-12 Reform: The Digital Education Funding Cliff,” is available online.
“ARRA Investments in Technology, Innovation, and K-12 Reform: The Digital Education Funding Cliff,” a report released at the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) 2010 Leadership Summit and Education Forum earlier this month, illustrates that with appropriate funding and leadership, states and districts can make positive differences for students. The report, which is the first and only of its kind, offers a preliminary snapshot of how states and school districts are using funds from the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) Program under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The result is an explosion of innovation with regard to digital and open content, online assessment, online and blended learning, increasing student and teacher access to a wide and growing array of computing devices – allowing for more choices and personalization – and even increased access to powerful data and information on student learning.
Coupled with the release of the National Education Technology Plan at the SETDA event by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the release earlier this year of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, which included within it an ambitious education agenda, the work states and districts are completing with the ARRA funding continues a strong momentum toward increasing education effectiveness and efficiency through technology.
“It is ironic that just as this positive momentum is gaining traction that direct federal investments in educational technology are facing the proverbial funding cliff,” noted Douglas Levin, Executive Director of SETDA. “Efforts to rethink federal education program effectiveness through the smart use of technology are admirable and important, and SETDA has made major strides to this end in cooperation with other key actors, including the National Association of State Title I Directors. However, as this report clearly illustrates, without strong technology leadership enabled by dedicated funding, states will not be able to scale the promising and proven programs that are growing with these investments to the benefit of all students.”
The SETDA report, “ARRA Investments in Technology, Innovation, and K-12 Reform: The Digital Education Funding Cliff,” is available online.

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