NGA Testifies on Innovation America
On March 22, Dane Linn, director of the education division of the National Governors Association, testified before the U.S. House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness about the recently released NGA federal legislative package, Innovation America: A Partnership, and other governor-led state efforts to prepare students for postsecondary education.
Innovation America represents a multi-tiered, comprehensive strategy to propel the rapid deployment and development of innovation in America by improving education, encouraging economic development and ensuring worker competitiveness. Under the initiative, governors have taken the lead with the following concrete acts:
- Innovative Thinking: Established a bipartisan Innovation America Task Force made up of governors, business leaders and academics to develop innovation-based education and economic strategies in three sectors:
1) Improving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education;
2) Enabling the postsecondary education system to better support innovation; and
3) Encouraging business innovation through supportive state policies.
- State Action: Collected best practices in education and economic development to inform governors' work and raised private funds to help implement innovation policies; and
- New Federal Partnerships: Developed a package of federal legislative recommendations to focus on the role of states in promoting innovation and to compliment federal efforts.
National Governors Association, "Innovation America: A Partnership"
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/070322TESTIMONYLINN.PDF
Brochure
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/06NAPOLITANOBROCHURE.pdf
Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
Program Solicitation
NSF 07-514
Replaces Document(s):
NSF 05-621
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Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required):
January 05, 2007
January 04, 2008
and the first Friday in January thereafter
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time):
May 10, 2007
May 08, 2008
and the second Thursday in May thereafter
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