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Article: Parents and Students Believe K-12 Schools Must Do More to Prepare Students for the 21st Century.
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- Pediatrics Week
- Article date:
- November 14, 2009
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While parents, K-12 students and educators agree that using technology is essential to learning and student success, parents are dissatisfied with the technology skills their children are learning in schools according to a survey report released by Project Tomorrow[R], a national education nonprofit organization, and Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBB), a global leader in education technology.
According to the survey, only one-third of parents and 40 percent of students in grades 6 through 12 believe that schools are doing a good job of preparing students for the 21st century. In contrast, more than half of principals surveyed believe they are doing a good job of ...