Education

A good education is the key to long lasting success in life. Fayetteville has one of the best education systems in the nation for unlocking the door to future prosperity. Fayetteville School District is consistently ranked on Newsweek magazines list of "Top Schools in the Nation" and many students from Fayetteville Schools are accepted annually to Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Princeton, and other prestigious universities.

Fayetteville is also home to the University of Arkansas. The University of Arkansas offers a vibrant campus life for the more than 17,000 students who attend classes "on the hill." University residence halls accommodate about 4,000 students, and the rest live in and near the city of Fayetteville. The campus provides film, theater, art, athletic events, world-renowned speakers, and musical events throughout the school year. The area also benefits from a long list of quality colleges and universities like Northwest Arkansas Community College and Webster University.

The State of Arkansas receives an overall B- Grade in Technology Counts 2008 - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

This State Technology Report is a supplement to the 11th edition of Technology Counts, a joint project of Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. The EPE Research Center surveyed the states to assess the status of K-12 educational technology across the nation in the areas of access, use, and capacity. The report assigns grades to the states for their technology performance overall and in those three categories. The state report assembles key findings from the survey and other sources in a format that allows readers to examine a particular state's performance. For most indicators, national results are also provided as a benchmark against which the state can be measured. State grades are not comparable with those in last year's report because of changes in two access indicators.

As its theme this year, Technology Counts 2008 explores the push to improve education in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Because of this, the state report also tracks achievement data in mathematics and science from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The full Technology Counts 2008 report can be accessed online at www.edweek.org/go/tc08.