After ten years of trying to establish the equivalent of DARPA for technology education, supporters have introduced a federal bill for a $500,000 fund, reports the New York Times.
After a tortuous journey--“It’s been one ‘starting all over again’ after another after another after another,” [former FCC chairman Newton] Minow said--their organization, what is now being called the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, finally has Congressional appropriation through the Education Department and will be introduced Monday. It could be handing out grants by fall.
“It’s time that education had the equivalent of what the National Science Foundation does for science, Darpa does for the national defense and what N.I.H. does for health,” [former NBC and PBS chairman Lawrence} Grossman said in an interview.
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