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NEWSWEEK
MAR
10
1997
Tech /
Wesler Govs
2000
12
THE MILLENNIUM NOTEBOOK
Internet U-No Ivy, No Walls,
No Keg Parties
We may have to be. especially when
faced with the educational demands of the
future. Utah Gov. Michael Leavilt has
OW CAN
and circuit board has obvious advantages
spearheaded the formation of a sort of elec-
there be
for Joe Martin. whose employer put up
tronic consortium of some 20 universities
H
classes with-
$75.000 for the 19-month Duke program.
in 13 nearby states dubbed Western Gov-
out class-
"My job, combined with the fact that I
ernors University (WGU) - that would al-
rooms? Ex-
wanted to keep a family life. has made it
low online students to take classes from
ams without
impossible for me to go back to school
any of the institutions or from a combina-
blue books?
these last 20 years." he says. "The tradi-
tion of all of them. Leavitt conceived the
Isn't the steady inhalation of
tional programs didn't have the flexibility I
plan as a response to projections that his
chalk dust essential to a top-
needed." Lisa Haddock, an online instruc-
state's college enrollments would double
drawer education? Joe Martin
tor at the University of Phoenix, took the
by 2015. Utah can't afford the $3 billion it
doesn't think so. The 41-year-old
new medium's flexibility to extremes when
would cost to build the nine new campuses
CFO of Farm Bureau Insurance
her second daughter opted to arrive in the
required. Some futurists even go so far
in Indianapolis is enrolled in
midst of two ongoing classes. "I logged on
as to predict the demise of conventional
Duke University's Global Execu-
three times during labor." she says.
teachers. Joseph Coates, coauthor of "2025:
tive M.B.A. program. On his
Virtual colleges. of course. still struggle
Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Re-
lunch hour, or in his bedroom as
with the stigma of their forebears. those
shaped by Science and Technology. envi-
his wife sleeps. Martin logs on to
back-of-the-magazine correspondence
sions a virtual education system from
the Internet and delves into
courses. Not all online offerings are ac-
kindergarten to grad school that would
homework assigned by a profes-
credited. and prospective students should
eventually dispense altogether with age-
sor more than 500 miles away.
be cautious - - for the time being. anyway.
based grades and allow pupils to progress
He listens to lectures delivered
"By the millennium, I think some of the
independently. But not even staunch pro-
via audio stream and engages in
really bad programs will have run their
ponents of online education believe acade-
real-time Web chats with class-
course." says Dixon. "We'll be out of the
mia's hallowed halls will disappear any
mates from China to Brazil. In
honeymoon phase, and more realistic
time soon. Says WGU executive director
nine months, he and 40 others
about what really works for students"
Jeffery Livingston, "There's no anticipation
from 14 countries will make up
that it's either technology or a traditional
the first class to graduate from
campus - this is just another alternative."
Duke's virtual business school.
NEWSWEEK
And so it will likely remain, at least until
Duke is one of several
they devise a way to download beer.
schools, including Ohio University and
KENDALL HAMILTON and SUSAN MILLER
Purdue, that have recently launched Inter-
COMMITMENT WATCH
net-based M.B.A. programs for far-flung
execs. Other institutions have begun offer-
What Beautiful Service
3
ing electronic graduate programs in fields
from computer science to nursing. and
would-be liberal-arts majors can collect
The "beauty part," as Ross Perot would say, of the April 27-28 bipartisan
Presidents' Summit for America's Future is the way It's structured. Or-
B.A. degrees from places like the Universi-
ganizations don't get to go to Philadelphia without a concrete commit-
ty of Alaska without the need to invest in
ment to at-risk kids. That means less talk, more action. Not so beautiful:
earmuffs. About 300 colleges and universi-
planners are swamped. For info, check out www.citizenservice.org.
ties now offer virtual degrees. says Pam
Dixon, author of the book "Virtual Col-
ORGANIZATION
COMMITMENT
CHALLENGE
lege." And. as we head into the next millen-
Kiwanis
Engage 250,000 kids in 30 million-
Hunting for Lions
nium, she predicts. professors will increas-
International
plus hours of service by year 2000
and Elk
ingly trade their ivory towers for spires of
300 natural-
Sponsor school to career
Would work in
silicon "In 10 years, cybercolleges will def-
gas and electric
experiences for 1.5 million
any industry
initely be part of mainstream education.
company CEOs
young people
There's no escaping it," she says. Richard
Federated Dept.
Staelin. director of the Duke program. is
Sponsor 50,000 hours of employee
Paging the rest of
Stores
time in schools as tutors, mentors
the retail trade
similarly optimistic. "This is a paradigm
shift in education." he says. "In five years. I
National Educa-
Recruit and train more than 1,000
Now 'bout other
tion Association
retired teachers to tutor 50,000
retirees?
believe, we'll have as many applications for
youths in reading
our [online] M.B.A. program as for our reg-
ular one."
New York Vol-
Provide intense une-to-one help
Time to clone this
unteer for
Trading pomp and circumstance for plug
to 25.000 youths 10 improve
one
Youth
schoolwork. prevent crime
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
April 19, 1997
April 18, 1997
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT:
Expanding Access to Internet-based Educational
Resources for Children, Teachers, and Parents
My number one priority for the next 4 years is to make sure
that all Americans have the best education in the world.
One of the goals of my Call to Action for American Education
is to bring the power of the Information Age into all of our
schools. This will require connecting every classroom and
library to the Internet by the year 2000; making sure that
every child has access to modern, multimedia computers; giving
teachers the training they need to be as comfortable with the
computer as they are with the chalkboard; and increasing the
availability of high-quality educational content. When America
meets the challenge of making every child technologically
literate, children in rural towns, the suburbs, and inner city
schools will have the same access to the same universe of
knowledge.
I believe that Federal agencies can make a significant
contribution to expanding this universe of knowledge. Some
agencies have already launched a number of exciting projects
in this area. The White House has a special "White House
for Kids" home page with information on the history of the
White House. NASA's K-12 initiative allows students to inter-
act with astronauts and to share in the excitement of scientific
pursuits such as the exploration of Mars and Jupiter and with
experiments conducted on the Space Shuttle. The AskERIC service
(Education Resources Information Center), supported by the
Department of Education, has a virtual library of more than
900 lesson plans for K-12 teachers, and provides answers to
questions from educators within 48 hours -- using a nationwide
network of experts and databases of the latest research.
Students participating in the Vice President's GLOBE project
(Global Learning and Observation for a Better Environment)
collect actual atmospheric, aquatic, and biological data and
use the Internet to share, analyze, and discuss the data with
scientists and students all over the world. With support from
the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy,
and the Department of Defense's CAETI program (Computer-Aided
Education and Training Initiative), the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory has developed a program that allows high school
students to request and download their own observations of
the universe from professional telescopes.
We can and should do more, however. Over the next 3 months,
you should determine what resources you can make available that
would enrich the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning,
and produce and make available a new or expanded version of your
service within 6 months.
more
(OVER)
2
You should use the following guidelines to support this
initiative:
Consider a broad range of educational resources,
including multimedia publications, archives of primary
documents, networked scientific instruments such as
telescopes and supercomputers, and employees willing
to serve as tele-mentors or answer student and teacher
questions.
Expand access not only to the information and other
resources generated internally, but by the broader community
of people and institutions that your agency works with and
supports. For example, science agencies should pursue
partnerships with professional societies, universities, and
researchers to expand K-12 access to scientific resources.
Update and improve your services in response to comments
from teachers and students, and encourage educators to
submit curricula and lesson plans that they have developed
using agency material.
Focus on the identification and development of high-quality
educational resources that promote high standards of
teaching and learning in core subjects. Of particular
importance are resources that will help students read well
and independently by 4th grade, and master challenging
mathematics, including algebra and geometry, by 8th grade.
Make sure the material you develop is accessible to people
with disabilities. Earlier this month, I announced my
support for the Web Accessibility Initiative, a public-
private partnership that will make it easier for people with
disabilities to use the World Wide Web.
I am also directing the Department of Education to develop
a "Parents Guide to the Internet," that will explain the
educational benefits of this exciting resource, as well as
steps that parents can take to minimize the risks associated with
the Internet, such as access to material that is inappropriate
for children.
The Department of Education will also be responsible for chairing
an interagency working group to coordinate this initiative to
ensure that the agency-created material is of high quality, is
easily accessible, and promotes awareness of Internet-based
educational resources among teachers, parents, and students.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
Internet
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 15, 1997
RADIO ADDRESS
BY THE VICE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION
10:06 A.M. EST
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This is Vice
President Al Gore. President Clinton asked me to fill in for him
this morning as he recovers from yesterday's successful operation to
repair a torn tendon in his knee.
The President's doing great, he's resting comfortably
and he'll be back on his feet - - both of them -- very soon. He
wanted me to thank all of you who have sent your prayers and best
wishes for a speedy recovery.
Over the past four years, our country has made real
progress. The American economy has produced nearly 12 million new
jobs. Family incomes are going up and the poverty rate is going
down, and we've had the biggest drop in the welfare rolls in our
nation's history.
But we face new challenges in a competitive global
economy. And the one thing that will most determine our success or
failure is the quality of the education we give to all of our
children. That is why President Clinton has made education our
nation's number one priority for the next four years. And in recent
days, he and I have traveled the country to stress the importance of
all Americans working together to make American public education the
very best in the entire world.
Here's our goal: By the year 2000, every eight-year-old
can read. Every 12-year-old can log onto the Internet. Every
18-year-old can go to college, and every American can keep on
learning for a lifetime. And the President has proposed a plan of
action to reach this goal and to improve American education.
We must start by focusing on our youngest children. The
President's balanced budget plan will expand Head Start to one
million children. And this week the President and the First Lady
announced that they will host the first White House Conference on
Early Childhood Development and Learning. We also must open more
charter schools that stay open as long as they meet high standards.
And we must make the 13th and 14th years of schooling as universal as
high school is today.
And the cornerstone of this plus is 1.., unise standards
so we make sure our children We have challenged
every state to adopt high national academic standards, and then by
1999 to test fourth graders in reading and eighth graders in math so
that all of our children, no matter where they live or what their
backgrounds, will have the same chance to make the most of their
lives and their futures.
Last month, the first two states, Michigan and Maryland,
announced plans to adopt these tests. And on Thursday, President
Clinton spoke before the North Carolina Legislature where Governor
Jim Hunt announced that North Carolina would become the third state
to adopt these standards.
The national government is also taking responsibility
for the schools it controls. The Department of Defense runs a school
system as big as that of the State of Delaware, educating 115,000
American children at bases here and around the world. This week, the
Department of Defense schools asked that their students be among the
first to take the new tests when they become available. Starting in
1999, students in American classrooms from Wiesbaden to Okinawa to
Camp Lejeune will learn the same rigorous material and take the same
national test as students throughout the country.
On Thursday, as the President was traveling to North
Carolina, I traveled to California and spoke to that state's
legislature about another element of our education crusade, a
national effort to reinvent the way we finance public education, to
reorganize our schools in harmony with the principles of the
knowledge economy. This reinventing public education effort will
begin not in Washington but in communities across America. Its goal
is to enlist everyone concerned about the education of children, from
parents to school administrators to students themselves, to begin
asking some fundamental questions about their public school systems
- - in particular, how school dollars are spent.
In an age of tight budgets, we should be spending public
funds on teachers and children, not on unnecessary overhead and
bloated bureaucracy. Yet any educational progress we achieve is at
risk if our children are asked to learn in a landscape littered with
peeling paint and broken glass. With student populations at an
all-time high, many of our schoolhouses are now at an all-time low - -
rundown, overcrowded, and stuck with ancient technology or no
technology at all.
One-third of our schools now need major repair or
outright replacement. Sixty percent need major building repairs to
fix sagging roofs or to repair cracked foundations. Forty-six
percent even lack the basic electrical wiring to support computers,
modems, and modern communications technology.
This has become a national problem and it demands
national action. That is why yesterday the President sent new
legislation to the Congress to provide federal assistance to help
local communities and states rebuild the nation's schools. The
Partnership to Rebuild America's Schools Act will provide $5 billion
over the next four years to help upgrade old schools and build new
schools. This will spur $20 billion in investments for school
modernization by states, localities, and the private sector.
We urge Congress and communities to step up to this
challenge. We simply cannot ask our teachers to build up children in
buildings that are literally falling down. Our children deserve to
be held to the highest standards, to learn from school systems that
focus on teaching and not bureaucracy, inside school buildings that
shine as brightly as their hopes.
On all these fronts, we are working hard to prepare our
people for the 21st century. We will keep at it, and we ask for your
help. Thanks for listening.
END
10:12 A.M. EST