Leading Educational Transformation for Today's Global Society: State of Michigan Educational Technology Plan

Abstract

This plan has been written within a context of recognizing both the need to improve educational achievement of Michigan students, especially those who are underachieving, and the parallel constraints of funding challenges facing the state and schools. This is a period in which the emphasis is on improving achievement as well as possible with tried and true methods. While this is the very difficult context we all recognize and understand, it substantially understates the challenges we face in education. A combination of globalization and technology advances are racing far ahead of our responses in education.