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Schools To Get Their Own DARPA
Julie188 writes "A decade ago, Lawrence Grossman, former president of both NBC News and PBS, and Newton Minow, former chairman of the FCC, proposed that the government set up a multi-billion dollar trust that would act as a 'venture capital fund' to research educational technologies for schools, libraries and museums. Congress has finally approved the idea, and grants could start rolling by this fall. Dubbed the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, it should be to education what the National Science Foundation is for science, and DARPA is for national defense."
When I was growing up, all the other kids on my block had a DARPA, but I didn't.
I had to do with some stupid National Science Foundation
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When my daughter was in kindergarten they had a new thing called "invented spelling", and it was an unmitigated disaster. She still misspells many words the same way she misspelled them before she learned to read (she's 22 now).
The truble with new teaching technologies is that unlike medical experiments, you can't do them on animals first.
I see you have truble spelling, too.
Oh the irony
It will never last with an acronym like that. Should have called it National Education by Research Department.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Turns out mcgrew's daughter is an excellent speller.
If you think imaginary property and real property are the same, when does your house become public domain?
So you were doing National Science Foundation Work? I wonder how many people clicked on you by mistake.
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