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Week Four DQ#3 Educational systems are global businesses. Since the 1960s, the United States has participated actively in international projects that are designed to provide key information about the performance of the U.S. education system relative to education systems in other countries. Educators understand schools effectiveness plays a major role in determining a country economic success and predicting national growth. Organizations exist primarily to accomplish established goals. Schools organizational goals draw conclusions, insights, and lessons to accommodate social changes that focus intellectually on workplace demands. Structural Framework: problem based, processes, analysis, design Schools use scientific methods to determine the most efficient way of doing the work. What’s the proper role of (hard) information technology in the maintenance and achievement of standards, and in the management of information related to assessment? How much do kids' and teachers' information needs shift when the school begins to center its work on the achievement of specified outcomes? How can a school ensure equitable access to learning opportunities when these opportunities are dependent upon technology? Structural frame principles requires technical skills and data accessibility to compare national systems of schooling, discerning common themes and trends, appreciating differences, understanding problems, and controversies. By allowing students to use the technology tools of Web 2.0, teachers are actually giving students the opportunity to learn for themselves and share that learning with their peers.