Comments on: Edu-innovation requires investment and incentives http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1117 Supporting the most important work in the world… yours. Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:24:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Richard Boyd http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1117&cpage=1#comment-1125 Richard Boyd Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:01:05 +0000 http://www.varpartners.net/?p=1117#comment-1125 Thanks for attending the conference and the "Moonshot for Education" special event. With your help, I believe we have successfully framed our education crisis as more than just an unfortunate trend, but as a national security and economic imperative. In an accelerating information age, having an educated population who "think like scientists, mathematicians and historians"; who can think critically and collaboratively problem solve and separate the signal from the noise are requisite for survival. The US still far exceeds any other single country in GDP and will so for some time. I believe no single nation or loose band of malcontents can defeat us or exceed us economically in the next two decades; but we are more than capable of defeating ourselves by taking our eye off the ball. Economic growth derives from innovation. Innovation comes only from vigilant R&D. As you point out, it is sorely lacking in our education system. The gauntlet is thrown. Will our administration, school boards, teachers and parents respond? Or will they continue to prop up failing models? Thanks for attending the conference and the “Moonshot for Education” special event. With your help, I believe we have successfully framed our education crisis as more than just an unfortunate trend, but as a national security and economic imperative. In an accelerating information age, having an educated population who “think like scientists, mathematicians and historians”; who can think critically and collaboratively problem solve and separate the signal from the noise are requisite for survival.

The US still far exceeds any other single country in GDP and will so for some time. I believe no single nation or loose band of malcontents can defeat us or exceed us economically in the next two decades; but we are more than capable of defeating ourselves by taking our eye off the ball. Economic growth derives from innovation. Innovation comes only from vigilant R&D. As you point out, it is sorely lacking in our education system.

The gauntlet is thrown. Will our administration, school boards, teachers and parents respond? Or will they continue to prop up failing models?

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