tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) (09/18/88)
Senator Albert Gore (D-TN) has introduced S. 2762, a bill "to
establish a National Educational Software Corporation to promote the
development of high-quality, interactive, and educationally useful
computer software...."
The Corporation would be run by a Board of Directors, consisting of
The Secretary of Education, the Director of the National Science
Foundation, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, and 12 indivdiduals appointed by the President, with the advice
and consent of the Senate. (The non-ex-officio members would include:
o 4 teachers (elementary, secondary, post-secondary);
o 3 educational administrators;
o 3 "experts on the application of computer technology
to education;" and
o 2 "experts in the venture financing of high technology
companies."
The principal functions of the Corporation would be:
o development of corporation participation criteria for the
selection of high-quality, interactive, and educationally
useful software;
o securing investment capital for projects selected by the
Corporation as warranting its assistance to develop such
software;
o making appriopriate and reasonable investments in projects
for the development of such software;
o entering into contracts and making grants to assist in the
development of such software; and
o other activities related to the above.
For further information, contact your Senator or Congressman, or
Senator Albert Gore, United States Senate, Washington, DC 20510.
(I am not associated with Senator Gore, and the posting of this article
constitutes neither endorsement of nor oppostion to enactment of S. 2762.)
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