The KIDS Report's goals are to provide a model to:

Develop research and evaluation skills of students

• Promote information literacy by encouraging students to develop lifelong skills in evaluating information/media, accessing resources, and organizing information.
• Encourage students to hone critical thinking skills through the development of their own selection criteria.
• Help students learn how to efficiently retrieve valuable resources (mine information) from an overload of material.
• Help students refine writing skills through site annotation.

Integrate the Internet into the curriculum

• Use the Internet in a K-12 environment in a manner which provides a process for dealing with "information overload."
• Encourage student interest in and knowledge of academic content on the Web.
• Enable students to become authorities of information available on the Web.

Create a usable product for K-12 students and teachers everywhere

• Provide students with a source for Web sites that are not only interesting and fun but also useful in their studies and, ideally, encourage them toward new interests.
• Provide teachers with pre-selected and reviewed Web sites for classroom use.
• Offer teachers print and online staff development resources.