The PBS K-12 Digital Classroom Project is designed to inform development of next-generation digital educational services for K-12 education. The project identifies the unique issues and opportunities surrounding classroom use of digital TV through research and testing and strives to create scalable, smart classroom/educational applications of digital television in partnership with PBS stations, furthering the PBS mission to serve the education community. PBS commissioned CCT to conduct formative research of the pilot, which involves seven local public television stations and their partner schools.