Education Revolution: How Investing in E-Learning R&D Could Dramatically Improve Educational Productivity

Please join the New America Foundation and Digital Promise for an invitation only Congressional Breakfast Briefing to mark the release of two new education papers on America's stagnant educational productivity and the role e-learning R&D could play to increase it. Learn why e-learning R&D is prone to market failure and why it makes sense to fund e-learning R&D the way NSF funds scientific research and NIH funds health research.

Working Paper: The Cost to the Nation of Underinvestment in Educational R&D
by Thomas Stratmann
Working Paper: The Digital Opportunity Investment Trust and America's Global Leadership
by Eamon Kelly
Digital Promise

Location

Capitol Hill

Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 628

Washington, DC

See map: Google Maps

Participants

Michael Calabrese
Vice President and Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation
Newton Minow
Co-Chair, Digital Promise and Former Chairman, FCC
Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
Co-Sponsor, The Digital Opportunity Investment Trust Act
Thomas Stratmann
Professor of Economics, George Mason University and Author, "The Economic Costs to the Nation of Under Investment in Education Training R&D
Eamon Kelly
President Emeritus, Tulane University and Author,
Lawrence K. Grossman
Co-Chair, Digital Promise and Former President, NBC News and Public Broadcasting Service