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Technology assessment coming

Under No Child Left Behind, students are required to be technology proficient by the end of 8th grade. During the 2007-08 school year, 10 South Dakota school districts are serving as pilot sites to implement the state’s new K-12 educational technology standards and to assess students’ technology literacy.

The Department of Education expects the K-12 technology standards to be implemented statewide in 2008-09. Feedback from the pilot districts will be influential in determining how, when and where a technology assessment will be administered in 2008-09.

Pilot districts include:

Beresford
Brookings
Faith
Harrisburg
Hill City
Hot Springs
Meade
Sanborn Central
Sioux Falls
West Central

To view South Dakota’s K-12 educational technology standards, visit http://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/NCLB/index.asp. For more information about the technology assessment, contact Peg Henson at (605) 773-2489.

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