"We have clearly reached a turning point. All over this country, we see evidence of a new excitement in education, a new determination, a hunger for change. The technology that has so dramatically changed the world outside our schools is now changing the learning and teaching environment within them."

Rod Paige - U.S. Secretary of Education

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Toward A New Goldern Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today's Students Are Revolutionizing Expectations, Washington D.C. , 2004