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October 22, 2007
Questions I'd Ask Mitt Romney
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is going to be interviewing presidential candidate Mitt Romney later this week and he's asking for your help. Michael's looking for questions he can ask Romney, and he's open to engaging the candidate on issues related to education technology and the digital divide.
Here are the questions I've thrown into the ring:
- Do you support the federal E-Rate program, the initiative that subsidizes Internet access in low-income schools and libraries? Why or why not?
- No Child Left Behind mandates that all students must be "technologically literate" by the eighth grade but doesn't expand on the subject. In your mind, what technology skills should every eighth grader possess, and why?
- The U.S. continues to struggle when it comes to producing enough college graduates who major in disciplines related to science, technology, engineering or math. What reforms would you make in K-12 education in order to increase the number of students who go on to college to study these disciplines?
- What do you think of MIT's so-called $100 laptop? Do you see it offering any benefit to US students?
- Congress is currently considering legislation that would block access to online social networks at schools and libraries that accept federal E-Rate funding. Do you think this legislation would help protect kids against online threats, or does it undermine educators' abilities to use the Internet creatively in their classrooms?
- How do you personally define the term "digital divide"? Do you believe there is still a digital divide in this country? Would you use that term to describe it, if you were president? What would you do as president to alleviate it?
If you've got any questions of your own, feel free to post them on Techcrunch . You're more than welcome to share them here, too, but I can't guarantee that Arrington will read my blog with much frequency. :-)
Tags: digital divide | E-Rate | education technology | election 2008 | Michael Arrington | Mitt Romney | OLPC | Techcrunch
Posted by acarvin at October 22, 2007 10:26 AM
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