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.
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.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
