Tops in tech. (Technology Update).

Tops in tech. (Technology Update). South Dakota South Dakota(dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). leads the nation in school technology for the secondyear in a row, according to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. the 2001 Digital State Survey conducted bythe Center for Digital Government. The annual survey rates the progress of state governments inadopting and using digital technologies to improve delivery of servicesto their citizens, including law enforcement, electronic commerce,digital democracy and education. Last year, South Dakota ranked first in the categories Of K-12 andhigher education higher educationStudy beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. . This year, the survey compressed the two categoriesinto one. Illinois Illinois, river, United StatesIllinois,river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. and Utah tied with South Dakota for the top positionin education this year under the new criteria criteria (krītēr´ē),n. ; all three states receiveda perfect score in the survey. Rankings were based on an assessment of how many administrativefunctions can be performed online for state colleges and universities;how many colleges post classroom information online and provide distanceeducation programs; whether progress reports on public schools andstudents are available online; and whether states have deployedelectronic learning (eLearning) systems. In largely rural South Dakota, online services provide educationalopportunities that were not available previously, the report asserts.About 70 percent of the state's 127,000 K-12 students can be onlinesimultaneously, it says.