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99 CIS H 34195
TITLE: Field Hearing
on Education Technology and the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act
CIS-NO: 99-H341-95
SOURCE: Committee on
Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Apr. 12, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+170 p. il.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-19
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND:
1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-19. Hearing in Newark, Del., before the Subcom on
Early Childhood, Youth, and Families to review Delaware efforts to incorporate
educational technology into schools, in connection with upcoming reauthorization
of Department of Education assistance for State and local educational technology
programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(ESEA).
Supplementary material (p. 61-170) includes witnesses'
written statements and a submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Elem and secondary educ aid programs,
extension and revision, educ technology issues
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
EARLY CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES. HOUSE; DELAWARE; FEDERAL AID TO
STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; NEWARK, DEL.; DELAWARE;
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-H341-95
TESTIMONY NO: 1 Apr. 12, 1999 p. 6-16
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
CARPER, THOMAS R.
(Governor, Delaware)
METTS, IRIS T. (Secretary, Education,
Delaware Department of Public Instruction)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Description of educational technology
initiatives in Delaware.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary educ aid programs, extension and
revision, educ technology issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
DELAWARE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
99-H341-95 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Apr. 12, 1999 p. 17-39, 65-117
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
GEORGE,
ORLANDO J., JR. (President, Delaware Technical and Community College)
HARTSCHUH, WAYNE (Executive Director, Delaware Center for
Educational Technology)
SLOAN, THOMAS W. (State Librarian,
Division of Libraries, Delaware Department of State)
FISCHER, NICHOLAS A. (Superintendent, Christina School
District, Newark, Del)
SMITH, ROBERT D. (Superintendent,
Milford, Del., School District)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Benefits of partnerships between public schools and
community colleges to develop educational technology programs; importance of
school use of technology, including use in school libraries; issues relating to
reauthorization of ESEA, focusing on Federal funding for educational technology
initiatives.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and
secondary educ aid programs, extension and revision, educ technology issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
DELAWARE TECHNICAL
AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; COMMUNITY COLLEGES; LIBRARIES
99-H341-95 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Apr. 12, 1999 p.
40-59, 119-164
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
REISSMAN, SALLIE A. (teacher)
AMMANN, CHARLES (Technology Coordinator, Capital School
District, Dover, Del)
RIVERA, RODNEY (college student)
SCHONBACH, MARK (student)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Description of successful classroom use of
technology; accomplishments of Delaware in use of Federal educational technology
grant (related materials, p. 141-153); benefits of classroom use of technology.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary educ
aid programs, extension and revision, educ technology issues 
