Education Week (6/16, Davis) reports on the difficulties and successes that educators are meeting as they work to implement classroom technology, piece presents some positive outcomes, but notes that introducing classroom technology "is a tricky task for schools-one that is fraught with worries about what will work and what won't. Schools want to utilize new tools and embrace different ways of teaching, but not at the expense of their performance on state achievement tests." Meanwhile, ED officials appear to be open to allowing some deviation in test scores as districts adjust to new technologies. "'As our blueprint for ESEA reauthorization describes, we have to create space and flexibility for schools to have room to make mistakes and recover without overly penalizing them,' says James H. Shelton, the department's assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement."
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