OSTP is working with a number of interagency groups to launch demonstration projects of high quality online coursework, most notably in medical instruction and secondary languages. President Clinton defined the mission of Computers for Learning in Executive Order 12999 Educational Technology: Ensuring Opportunity for All Children in the Next Century, which states his goal, "to ensure that American children have the skills they need to succeed in the information intensive 21st Century."
Information Technology R&D: The long term R&D funded through the interagency federal IT R&D program helps accelerate advances in computing, information, and communications technologies. These advances not only are essential for Federal agencies to fulfill their missions, but also help assure national security and to meet national goals for improving environmental management.
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