The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead, a program of the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, provided support for technology innovations and professional development in 22 school-community partnerships around the United States from 1995–1997. The Road Ahead was sponsored by Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporation.

ISTE conducted formative and summative evaluation of The Road Ahead. Evaluation reports are published on the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education's (NFIE) Web site at http://www.nfie.org/. As part of its research, ISTE also prepared six background papers on issues of importance to educational technology and school change:

• Project-Based Learning
• Professional Development
• Assessment
• Resources for Information Technologies
• School-Home-Community
• Overview, Information Technology in Education
• Comments on Papers