Recently, a White House advisory panel announced that the amount of money spent on researching educational techniques in the United States equals just 1/10 of 1 percent of the nation's total spending on education. "At this point, there are more claims about what technology can do than there are well-developed evaluations with conclusive findings," states a draft report produced for the U.S. Department of Education by the Washington-based American Institute for Research. (See an Education Week/Milken Exchange report, A Tool for Learning.) Schools not only need more technology, the report suggests; they also need more and better educational research to support their use of it -- to learn whether it's working and to document successes so they might be duplicated.