Obama pledges high-speed Internet in schools
By Ovetta Wiggins and David Nakamura, Washington Post
Visiting an innovative Prince George’s County middle school where each child has a tablet computer, President Obama spoke Tuesday about his plan to give 20 million more students access to high-speed Internet connections at the nation’s schools and libraries.
Obama announced Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission will dedicate $2 billion and that several private companies — including Apple, Verizon, Sprint and Microsoft — have committed $750 million to help bring some of the technological opportunities provided at Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, Md., to schools across the country. He said he hopes that 99 percent of U.S. students will have high-speed access to the Internet within five years, something his administration has called a “foundation for a transformation in the classroom” that will give teachers the best technology and training along with rich, digital content.
The initiative, known as ConnectEd and originally announced last summer, could have a widespread impact at thousands of schools. White House officials said the Internet speed in 70 percent of the nation’s schools is too slow.
Well now that all students will have high speed I guess all the problems of education are solved and everybody will graduate summa *** lauda.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Also I am not sure everyone can graduate with those honors. For example, people with poor reading comprehension who despite having the correct information in front of them, end up with the wrong conclusion.
Now, if he can promise high paying jobs at the NSA(and who knows elsewhere)for the hackers in the local public schools, there might be enough payroll taxes to pay for all the people hackers put on welfare.
Hey Suspect. So, you want kids to go back to what? Quills and ink? And other countries will do the same? Right?
Hey Perry. You mean the NSA program started 2003 in a closet in San Francisco owned by AT&T? Without a Judge oversight? Maybe they can get a job at TARGET.