Like it or not, the financial landscape of educational technology is changing. Technology Counts 2005—the eighth edition of Education Week’s annual report on educational technology—tracks the economic and policy forces that are converging to push those changes, which are happening at the federal, state, and local levels.

States and school districts are spending millions of dollars to build online student-data systems that will offer teachers what policymakers hope will be the information needed to craft clear-cut strategies for raising achievement. The biggest impetus for putting money into such data systems is arguably the expansive reporting requirements and ambitious student-achievement goals set forth in the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

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