Steven Gunderson: “I simply want to point out to my colleagues, this is an attempt to respond, for lack of better description, to the…”

“I simply want to point out to my colleagues, this is an attempt to respond, for lack of better description, to the learning revolution. It is a recognition that high technology will change the schools. It will change the subjects. It will change who are the students. It will change everything we understand about schools as they exist today. Recognizing, as was said recently in a book ``From Risk to Renewal,'' that literally the traditional walls between education and the broader community would come tumbling down as schools would become communities of higher learners, in which as much attention is paid to the intellectual and development needs of adults as children. Literally, we need to recognize that education is going to change like nothing any of us have ever considered in the past. The intent of this amendment is to allow schools, through assistance from the Federal Government, to allow communities, through assistance from the Federal Government, to begin designing and creating these new 21st century community learning centers for the future.”