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United States Department of Education

Goals 2000 Satellite Town Meeting

"Learning on-Line: Education and the Information Superhighway"

Closing Remarks by Deputy Secretary Madeleine M.Kunin

And thanks to all of our callers and to everyone in the communities across the country who joined our October town meeting.

And a special thanks to everyone in our studio audience tonight.

As always, we want to thank our producing partner, the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Now, if you would like to continue tonight's discussion--and I suspect there are a lot of people out there who do--and you have a computer with E-mail access to the Internet, we invite you to join our interactive on-line conversation that began just last month.

For the next few weeks you will be able to talk with one other and some guest experts about the issues we raised this evening. To find out how to participate in this discussion on- line, call 1-800-USA-LEARN.

Let me also add we also accept old-fashioned letters at the U.S. Department of Education as well.

But if you need more information about the Department of Education support for bringing technology into the classroom, you can write to Linda Roberts at the address you see on the screen.

We have also prepared a paper full of actual case studies and success stories from schools using the Internet. To get a copy of "Telecomputing Stories: Real People Doing Real Things for Learning," write to the Goals 2000 Information Resource Center at the address here.

Our next meeting is Tuesday, November 15, at 8:30 p.m., Eastern time, when the topic will be: Family-School Partnerships.

For the first time, we will be simultaneously broadcasting the program in English and Spanish. Please be sure to join us.

Thanks for joining the Goals 2000 Satellite Town Meeting this evening. I am Madeleine Kunin in Washington. Good night.

(Whereupon, at 9:30 p.m., the town meeting was adjourned.)

Conversation with Dr. Grundner and Dr. Gomez