'Dear Senator ...': to save the future of technology in schools, members of Congress need to hear your success stories--from you.(policy & advocacy)

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), April, 2006 by Fletcher, Geoffrey H.

I WALKED INTO the senator's outer office a few minutes late, having gotten lost in the underground tunnel that connects the two Senate office buildings near the Capitol in Washington, DC. I checked in with the receptionist, who called the staffer I was supposed to meet. In the meantime, approximately 20 people, all wearing identical T-shirts bearing a slogan about immigration reform, crowded into the office to drop off information about their cause.

While I waited, two impeccably--and expensively-dressed men dropped off a book of photographs suitable for display on a coffee table, and a notebook of information for a meeting the next day. In one corner of the office, a staffer was meeting with two people to talk about saving the Columbia River Valley, while...

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