I am looking for the percentages of American teachers who have email
access and am looking to find out how many have the ability to read
and display email that is encoded in html rather than plain text.

This area is changing extremely rapidly, as Department of Education
studies have shown Internet access in public schools rising from 35%
in 1994 to 90% in 1998 and to 99% in 2001. (High-speed connections
have grown from 26% in 1996 to 95% in 2001):
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/09-2002/09242002b.html

The study "Internet Use by Teachers" (Feb. 12, 1999) is dated, being
based on survey data in 1998, but it shows that 16% of all teachers
are using e-mail professionally; 23% use it occasionally; and 61% are
not using it:
http://www.crito.uci.edu/TLC/FINDINGS/internet-use/startpage.htm

Nielsen net ratings now show half the U.S. population actively using
the Internet, so these numbers have undoubtedly risen.

There's a broad amount of other analyses based on the 1998 "Teaching,
Learning & Computing" survey that you may find interesting at the
Center for Research on Information Technology page at the University
of California:
http://www.crito.uci.edu/tlc/html/findings.html

Despite the analyses of teachers using technology, the HTML portion of
the question seems to be unanswered.  Schools may block HTML mail
because of known security holes -- and a teacher may not even be aware
of it.  And, of course, users have their own preferences, as the
article "7 Reasons HTML e-mail is Evil" indicates:
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Answer by omnivorous-ga on 21 Oct 2002 20:02 PDT

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