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Trending in the right direction: with educators, businesses, and legislators collaborating, signs suggest that the recognition of technology's vital role in education is reaching critical mass.(policy & advocacy)

YOU PROBABLY HAVE heard of The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 book about understanding change and why change happens quickly. As Gladwell writes on his website (www.gladwell.com): "Ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics. The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us."

Drawing a parallel to the way AIDS and other infectious dis eases spread, Gladwell points out that the term tipping point "comes from the world of epidemiology. It's the name given to that moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass. It's the boiling point. It's the ...

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