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.

02/16/2005 - 12:02pm
Capitol Hill
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 628
Washington
United States
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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

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