President Barack Obama says the U.S. must invest in research and development, science, and especially education — or risk seeing the technological breakthroughs of the future happen in some other country.
HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. must invest in research and development, science, and especially education — or risk seeing the technological breakthroughs of the future happen in some other country.
Obama says he wants to focus "like a laser" on improving education. He said the quality of a nation’s education is one of the biggest predictors of a nation’s success.
The president Obama spoke at Intel Corp. in Oregon on Friday during a West Coast swing designed to highlight his vision of making the U.S. more competitive globally. Before the visit, the White House announced that Obama had picked company CEO Paul Otellini, a sometimes critic, to serve on a presidential competitiveness council.
Obama is hoping to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law to create more competition and less top-down control in education. It’s not clear that major education legislation will be able to advance on Capitol Hill with newly empowered Republicans focused on cutting the deficit.
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