Technology and Great Teachers are Essential for the U.S.

As President Obama returns from a week abroad and an immersion into the issues of the world, he’ll again take to defending the merits of his stimulus plan and his budget on the home-front. Underlying one of his biggest priorities, education reform, sits the kernel idea that investing in education will produce long-term economic gains for our country. So aside from simply wanting American children to be better educated, we must ensure that we can fill our seat at the global “big kids table” for decades to come.While the pundits agree on many of the essential ingredients of education reform, few can agree on the path we should take and the role technology should play.
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