Educators preparing or reviewing vision statements about the future of education may find this report sobering.
The Congressional Budget Office released The Budget and Economic Outlook, Fiscal Years 2007 – 2016.
Please note that education is not a front/home page topic for the CBO.
That means that as educators, we will unlikely receive top priority in any projected budgeting cycle. Our task is to create ways within the budget and economic outlooks to increase student learning rates with less money than we want to claim reasonable.
In other words, we must probably use different technologies to increase student achievement rates, even if we have to buy these devices for our own use in our assignments.
Or, we must assume that students will change enough so that our existing procedures and technologies result in higher measured student learning rates.
I think it’s more likely that we will buy our own equipment than that students will change their behavior to accept our existing ways.