National Educational Technology Plan

The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) was written in 2010 and was primarily based on the belief that education is the key to our economic success and that our students be competitive in the ever-changing global community.  The NETP has two goals to be met by the year 2020: (1) to increase the number of college graduates that hold a 2 or 4 year degree from, the current, 39% to 60% (2) to close the achievement gap so that all students, regardless of race or income, graduate from high school and be prepared to succeed in either college or the workplace.
The National Educational Technology Plan also offers it’s thoughts about education in the 21st century. It states that all students should be offered engaging and powerful learning opportunities.  It also states that technology should be accessible by teachers at all times to ensure that they can individualize instruction and be guaranteed access to all resources needed to provide beneficial instruction.
Transformation of the current educational system is what is called for by the National Educational Technology Plan, and it urges the school system at all levels to set goals on expected student outcome, work together to restructure the effectiveness of the system, and monitor the performance of these expectations in an ongoing manner.
The plan calls for teachers to become lifelong learners and to seek out and participate in professional development.  This professional development is to be offered in a variety of styles such as the traditional face to face workshops, web conferences, and video-conferencing to make it easier for teachers and school districts to participate. Then and only then will teachers be able to fully integrate what they learn into their classroom lessons to benefit the students.
I believe in theory the plan sounds great but with the recent budget cuts to education it will make it hard to implement these advancements in technology.