The CEO Forum on Education and Technology was founded to help ensure that every child in the United States is equipped with the essential technological, critical thinking, and communications skills necessary to compete in the 21st century. The Forum pursued this objective through an annual education and technology assessment aimed at measuring the nation's progress through our public schools. The annual assessment was based on the School Technology and Readiness methodology that has been developed by the CEO Forum. At its foundation is the integration of four issues that have been identified as critical to the process of teaching and learning: hardware, content, connectivity, and professional development. By regularly highlighting the importance of education technology and monitoring its deployment in the schools, the CEOs accelerated the country's progress in preparing our children for the 21st century.