• Introduction
• K-12 Electronic Instructional Materials Lead Industry Increase
• Courseware Challenges Modular Material
• Mergers & Acquisitions are Small; Testing Services Sought
• Mergers and Acquisitions Beyond Testing
• Table 1.1: Sales of Electronic and Print Media to U.S. Market
• Table 1.2: Electronic vs. Print Media in the U.S. K-12 Market, 2004
• Table 1.3: Electronic Media Used for Instruction in U.S. Schools
• Table 1.4: Share of Electronic Media Used for Instruction in U.S. Schools, 2004
• Table 1.5: Simba’s Mergers and Acquisitions Index, 2004

Chapter 2: Trends in Electronic Instruction

• Introduction
• Formative Assessment is Opportunity for Technology Providers
• Data Management Increases in Importance
• NCLB Also Spurs Professional Development
• Online Instruction Can Answer Several Needs
• Technology Plan Also Endorses Digital Content
• High School Looms as the Next Target for Improvement
• Struggling Readers, English-Language Learners and Special Ed Gain Attention
• Rising Diversity Fuels Another Market
• Special Education is Another Area Ripe for Technology

Chapter 3: Funding

• Overview
• Where the Money Comes From
• What the Federal Government Provides
• Title I and Reading First Provide Funding Opportunities
• States Report Better Fiscal Picture, But Crisis is Not Over Yet
• E-Rate, Driver of K-12 Technology Growth, Faces Questions in 2004
• Troubled Present Leads to Future Questions
• Table 3.1: U.S. Dept. of Education Funding
• Table 3.2:Top 25 Allocations of Title I Grants, 2003-2005P
• Table 3.3: Reading First, Early Reading First Funding, 2003-2005
• Table 3.4: Top 25 Allocations of Reading First State Grants
• Table 3.5: Early Reading First Grants, 2004 vs. 2005
• Table 3.6: Avg. Expenditure Per Student in K-12 Public Schools
• Table 3.7: Federal E-Rate Funding 2003-2002

Chapter 4: Enrollment and Demographics

• Introduction
• Public vs. Private School Enrollment
• Western States Expected to See Greatest Enrollment Gains
• Ethnic Diversity
• English Language Programs Grow as Population Diversifies
• Homeschool Enrollment Grows 28.9% Between 1999 and 2003
• Table 4.1: Projected Births in U.S., 2003-2012
• Table 4.2: Enrollment in Public and Private K-12 Schools, 2003-2013
• Table 4.3: Top Ten States with Greatest Gains, Loses in K-12 Enrollment
• Table 4.4: Changes in Regional Enrollment, 1995-2003, 2003-2013
• Table 4.5: Change in U.S. Student Population by Race, 1995-2001
• Table 4.6: English-Language Program Growth

Chapter 5: Instructional Software

• Introduction
• Titles Decline, But Still Represent Largest Share of Software Market
• Comprehensive and Online Courseware Growth Outpaces Market
• Pearson Digital Learning Leads Electronic Publishers in 2004
• Post-Lightspan Acquisition, Plato Leaps to Number Two
• Performance Ranking, 2003 vs. 2002
• Performance Ranking, First Half of 2004 vs. 2003
• Table 5.1: Software Used for Instruction in U.S. Schools
• Table 5.2 Simba’s Leading k-12 Instructional Software Publishers, 2003-2004
• Table 5.3 Simba’s Software Performance Ranking, 2003 vs. 2004
• Table 5.4: Simba’s Software Performance Ranking, Six Months, 2004-2003

Chapter 6: Hardware and Emerging Technologies

• Introduction.
• Dell the Most Popular School Computer in 2004-2005
• Mobile and Wireless Solutions
• One-to-One Computing
• Handheld Devices
• Even with Advantages, Tablet PC Adoption Still Slow
• Open Source Users Bullish, But Penetration Remains Small
• Interactive Whiteboards Used in More than 25% of Schools
• Large-Scale District IT Outsourcing Still Rare
• Pervasive School Computing Needs Federal Sponsorship
• Classrooms with Hardbound Texts the Wave of the Future
• Table 6.1: K-12 Hardware Penetration By Brand, 2002-2004
• Table 6.2: Wireless Network Penetration by School Type, 2001-2004
• Table 6.3: Computer Intensity by State, 2002-2004
• Table 6.4: PDA Sales Versus Smart Phone Sales, 2003-2005
• Table 6.5: PDA Penetration by School Type, 2004
• Table 6.6: Network System Penetration by School Type, 2004

Chapter 7: Forecast and Conclusions

• Overview
• Comprehensive and Online Courseware Will Outpace Market
• Looking to the Future
• Table 7.1: Forecast for Electronic Media Used in U.S. Schools, 2004-2007

Chapter 8: Company Profiles, Software Vendors

• American Education Corp
• Curriculum Advantage
• Harcourt
• Houghton Mifflin
• Inspiration Software
• Leapfrog Enterprises
• Learning.com
• McGraw-Hill Education
• Pearson Education
• Plato Learning
• Renaissance Learning
• Riverdeep
• Scholastic Corp
• Scientific Learning Corp
• Siboney Corp
• Sunburst Technology Corp
• WRC Media (Inc.) Compass Learning

Chapter 9: Company Profiles, Hardware Vendors

• Alpha Smart
• Apple Computer Inc
• Dell Computer Corp
• Gateway Corp
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM Corp
• palmOne