Education Week 

K-12 and postsecondary institutions are moving toward a vision of technology-rich, 21st-century education, albeit very slowly, says a new survey by the education division of the Washington-based Software and Information Industry Association, or SIIA. The vision, outlined by SIIA, measures schools on 21st century tools, anytime/anywhere access, differentiated learning, assessment tools, and enterprise support. Roughly 650 educators representing all levels of K-20 education participated in this annual survey, which is in its third year.

The survey, released at the ISTE conference here in Denver on Tuesday, found that postsecondary institutions were ahead of K-12 schools in every category except the development of data systems to track student data and achievement, which researchers attributed to the push for tracking student data in K-12 that was spurred by the No Child Left Behind Act.

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