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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
2/14/96
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 12, 1996
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THE VICE PRESIDENT
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FROM:
Laura Tyson/Gene Sperling/Paul Dimond (NEC)
Carol Rasco/Mike Schmidt (DPC)
Greg Simon (OVP)
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Leon Panetta, Alice Rivlin, Jack Gibbons
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SUBJECT:
The Educational Technology Challenge
I. ACTION-FORCING EVENT.
This Thursday, you and the Vice President will be travelling to a school in Union City, New
Jersey, to announce your proposal for the "Educational Technology Challenge" to implement
all four components of your vision as announced in the State of the Union, where you asked
"Congress to support this education technology initiative so that we can make sure this
national partnership succeeds."
We are choosing to announce the details of the initiative on Thursday because it is close
enough to the State of the Union to show the tight follow-up; it is right in between the
primaries so that there is less chance that political news will block out a substantive proposal,
and finally, it provides us a chance to highlight the Union City story -- one the best
technology success stories in the nation. Our goal with this event is to see if the actual
initiative itself can breakthrough.
II. FEDERAL COMPONENT FOR YOUR NATIONAL CHALLENGE ON
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY.
You have called for a national mission to make every child technologically literate by
challenging all components of the American community to help achieve four fundamental
pillars of a national education technology initiative.
1.
Provide access to modern computers for all teachers and students;
2.
Provide every teacher the training and support they need to help students learn through
computers and the information superhighway;
3.
Develop effective and engaging software and on-line learning resources for the full
curriculum;
4.
Connect every school and classroom in America to the information superhighway